A ranked list evaluates all 32 NFL teams by watchability rather than overall quality. Watchability emphasizes explosive, highlight-driven football: big plays, long touchdown runs, deep completions, fourth-down attempts, sacks, turnovers and high point totals. Intrigue from new young quarterbacks and notable coaching changes increases a team's watchability. Predictable, dominant teams receive watchability demerits. Overall quality instead centers on managing game state, sustaining drives, controlling the ball, avoiding turnovers, defending field position and setting up methodical shot plays. The metric rewards offenses that launch deep passes and defenses that create takeaways and pressure.
I ranked all 32 teams on watchability, which is different from overall goodness. Overall goodness is about managing game state, sustaining drives, controlling the ball, creating big plays while minimizing them defensively, avoiding turnovers while creating them defensively, playing for field position and setting up shot plays. Watchability is about throwing the ball over them mountains. Watchability is about touchdowns and interceptions and fourth-down attempts and sacks and points, more points and even more points if you've got 'em.
So what am I grading watchability on? Big plays. I like running backs who can score from their own 20-yard line. I like receivers who are open downfield even when they aren't. And I like quarterbacks who launch that sucker even when the safety's lurking. I like defenses who take the ball away, blitz and sack. My Gen Z brain needs the zoomies.
Collection
[
|
...
]