This may come as a surprise to some of you, but not every team can win the Super Bowl every year. There are teams that are perpetually in contention, teams that are perpetually middling and teams that, for some reason or another, are perpetually lost in the cyclical churn of coaches and quarterbacks hoping for the best. Some middling teams spend a lot to try and reach the upper tier. Some upper-tier teams don’t spend, hoping that they can still win and avoid the middle tier. And so on, and so on.
Should we have a 2020 season, it would seem like the upper tier would be slightly more closed off when discussing which teams actually have a chance of winning the Super Bowl.