Seattle goes to Pittsburgh and whomps the Steelers. Oakland whips the Vikings in the Metrodome. The 49ers are getting older by the minute, Jake Plummer in Arizona may end with more interceptions than passing yards this season and Tampa Bay will try to become the first team to reach the Super Bowl without a quarterback. This is no aberration. This is what we have to look forward to this season and for the next few seasons.
Free agency continues to gut the league's best teams and make also-rans contenders.
In response to that, teams are trying to re-sign their own players but paying them far more than they're worth. As a result, there's no money left under the salary cap to sign the available free agents who could make a team better. So this is what we're left with. That either means wonderfully competitive games played by teams evenly matched or a bunch of faceless, nameless teams with the same talent level, destroyed by parity and free agency. The only certainty is that the games the Packers have played the first three weeks will probably continue for much of the season.