Every year, a team emerges as a trendy preseason Super Bowl pick. Do those squads usually succeed? Let's evaluate 20 recent candidates.
Quarterback Jordan Love and the Packers finished the 2023 season on a high note, but the Lions are the favorite to win the NFC North in 2024. , with episodes released once a week. Barnwell joined ESPN in 2011 as a staff writer at Grantland. Follow him on Twitter here:calendar, two things begin: training camps and predictions season.
I'll take it a step further. Typically, those teams either need to win a playoff game and/or look very competitive in their loss to keep people's attention the following year. The 2021 Cardinals, hadn't made a playoff run with their core at that time and exceeded their preseason expectations by 2.5 wins. But after they struggled in the second half and gotin the postseason, nobody was picking them as a trendy Super Bowl pick in 2022.
First, let's establish which teams stand out as likely to draw serious consideration as the sexy Super Bowl picks this season. There's one obvious candidate that fits all our criteria:emerged as an immediate superstar in Houston, throwing for 4,108 yards with 23 touchdowns while getting picked off just five times. He followed that with athe following week, but they had already proven to be a formidable opponent in the AFC.
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