A word of warning to all those soon-to-be Super Bowl

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champions in New England or Los Angeles: Don’t get too comfortable. You might be
looking for a job fairly soon.The NFL’s inexorable trend of going younger and
cheaper does not bypass the best teams in the league. In fact John Brown Jerseys Stitched , it may help them stay as good as they are.An Associated Press analysis of Super Bowl champions over the past seven years revealed that
title teams shed an average of 20.4 players off their 53-man rosters from the
Super Bowl to Week 1 of the next season. That’s 38.5 percent. On average, the
new players had 1.8 fewer years of experience than the players they replaced.The
findings were in line with data analyzed by the AP that showed a steady trend
downward in experience of all teams despite attempts in the 2006 and 2011
collective bargaining agreements to stem that tide. Average experience on
opening-day rosters has dropped from 4.6 years to 4.3 since 2005 .“I mean, look,
there’s a lot of turnover in the National Football League on every team in every
year,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. “It’s the National Football League.
Teams turn over a lot of players and a lot of coaches every single year, every
single team.”No team does it with quite the high-profile effectiveness as the
Patriots, who have collected five Super Bowl titles since 2002, and will be
going for No. 6 on Sunday against the Rams.New England’s five Super Bowl
champions turned over an average of 19.2 players the season after they won their
titles. The season after their 2015 win over the Seahawks, they brought in 24
new players — the biggest number among all the teams surveyed in this
analysis.How does all this turn out? Not very well, except for the Patriots. Of
the past seven Super Bowl teams, none has repeated. Two have returned to the
Super Bowl to lose. Two have lost in the playoffs. Three didn’t even make the
playoffs.The 2003-04 Patriots are the last team to repeat.Belichick’s famously
unsentimental view of rosters, and the players who fill them Youth Bruce Smith Jerseys , has led to some of the most awkward, unpopular and sometimes downright messy break-ups in recent memory.Coming off a season in
which the Patriots lost the AFC title game, Belichick traded away linebacker
Jamie Collins — to the then 0-8 Browns, no less — in the middle of the 2016
season. New England won the Super Bowl that year.Ty Law, Adam Vinatieri, Vince
Wilfork, Richard Seymour. Lawyer Milloy, Jimmy Garoppolo, Wes Welker, Damien
Woody. New England said goodbye to all of them when they still had gas left in
the tank.They unexpectedly benched the cornerback who saved the 2015 Super Bowl,
Malcolm Butler, at the Super Bowl three years later Bruce Smith Jerseys Stitched , then let him go via free agency. Drew Bledsoe got injured in 2001 and his days were numbered. He got traded to the Bills after a
backup named Tom Brady stepped in and did fairly well.Through it all, Brady and
Belichick have been the constant.“Some of it is perception, and some of it is
reality,” said Eric Winston, the former NFL offensive lineman who is now the
president of the players’ union. “Every NFL team, in certain areas, goes through
maturations and goes through the process of, ‘How do we build a team?’ And then
it changes. One year, it’s finding a few older free agents who can play.
Another, everyone wants to get younger when the Seahawks win with an average age
of” 26.4.The average experience on Seattle’s 2013 Super Bowl champions was 3.66
years, the lowest among the teams AP surveyed.Not surprising, then 2019 Ed Oliver Jersey , that Seattle only turned over 15 players from that roster. Seattle returned to the Super Bowl the next season, but went into a rebuilding
mode not long after, with many of the top contributors from the Super Bowl teams
becoming too pricey. The team scrambled to put fresh talent around still-young
quarterback, Russell Wilson, but has never returned to the Super Bowl.“Teams
will try to find a younger, cheaper option even if the drop off in production
isn’t there” from the player they’re cutting ties with, said Seahawks 11th-year
offensive lineman Duane Brown. “If they’re not as productive but a little
cheaper they’re willing to sacrifice it.”Even by jettisoning around one-third of
their rosters, teams don’t always end up younger the next season. Of the 10
teams the AP analyzed — all seven title teams since 2011, along with the 2001,
2003 and 2004 Patriots — six actually got older. That’s because even with the
turnover, essentially two-thirds of the roster stays and ages a year.That only
amplifies the need to work hard at staying young.Jets offensive lineman Kelvin
Beachum recalled conversations he’s had with assistant coach David Diaz-Infante,
who played on the Broncos title teams in the late 90s.“He said Vosean Joseph Buffalo Bills Jersey , ‘Man, I remember when I was in my room, the youngest person in our room was 29,'” Beachum said. “That’s considered almost
older than a geezer now.'” Running back LeSean McCoy said this week that he
thinks the Bills can win with the talent on hand and he was proven right on
Sunday.Steven Hauschka hit a 46-yard field goal as time expired and the Bills
improved to 2-3 on the season with a 13-12 win over the Titans. The loss drops
Tennessee to 3-2 and ends their three-game winning streak.Hauschka’s kick was
set up by an 11-play, 47-yard drive that followed Ryan Succop‘s fourth field
goal of the day. That gave the Titans their first lead, but it was short-lived
as McCoy and Chris Ivory combined to eat clock and yardage against a Titans
defense that couldn’t stop what they knew was coming.McCoy ran 24 times for 85
yards and caught two passes for 23 yards in his busiest and most productive day
of the year. Josh Allen scored the only Bills touchdown on a 14-yard run in the
first quarter and completed 10-of-19 passes for 82 yards and an
interception.That interception came when Adoree Jackson knocked a pass away from
Andre Holmes and plucked it out of the air on its way down. Succop’s fourth
field goal came a short time later when the drive stalled on a Jerry Hughes
sack. Hughes had a chance for a second sack before an earlier field goal, but
let Marcus Mariota go after wrapping him up in what may have been an attempt to
avoid a roughing the passer penalty.That was the second sack Mariota took on a
third down in Sunday’s game and those miscues will go alongside three turnovers
and five penalties as issues that contributed to the losing effort.?Those errors
would have been relegated unhappy footnotes had Mariota been able to pilot one
touchdown drive, but the Bills defense didn’t yield much even while their own
offense was scuffling for much of the afternoon.The one time they did, wide
receiver Nick Williams dropped a pass that would have been worth six points.
That pretty well sums up what kind of day it was for the Titans, who will try to
bounce back against the Ravens. The Bills will try to even their record in
Houston.
Posted 10 Aug 2019

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