A losing record no longer indicates another is en route the next season. Free agency and salary caps promote enough player movement to foster hope of a fanciful turnaround. Today's NFL is composed of 31 fluid teams that resemble amoebas who divide and subtract among themselves. At least the system is the source of great leaps forward by teams reckoned as hopeless. It's possible to become better, faster.
Paupers become overnight princes.
Frogs quickly turned into butterflies. NFL and you best have one to win big. Lordy, scramblers have been with us since Moses scooted out of Egypt. Doodle-bug Fran Tarkenton dates to the '60s. Then came Roger Staubach , Randall Cunningham, John Elway, Steve Young and others of lesser skill.