The National Religion of the NFL: Shedding parts all over the racetrack

About a half-hour into the 1 PM Eastern starts of Week Three as I'm starting this post.

I've been getting bugged a bit by a number of things going on in the National Football League.  I got in an argument with a Jets fan after Thursday night -- and I continued my position (which has been my position for a number of years) that the national college-football champion could defeat the worst of the NFL if the two teams ever played.

I wonder why I would get this position when this appears to be the landscape of the NFL these days:

• Jets:  One winning season this decade.  A complete lack of discipline.  Turns out Isaiah Crowell will be fined TWICE for throwing balls into the stands -- he committed at least THREE fine-able offenses against the Browns.
• Bills:  9-7 last year, last winning season before that was 2004.  The LeSean McCoy drama has completely permeated this team, looking disgraceful in two non-competitive losses so far.
• Steelers:  Drew the Browns, lost to the Chiefs.  Largely seen as a possible option to New England, now both Le'Veon Bell and Antonio Brown are causing significant drama.
• Raiders:  Hoo boy.  Is John Gruden going to quit before the end of the year with all this going on?  Last year, real allegations surfacing that Black players on the Raiders actually allowed White quarterback David Carr to be injured due to the National Anthem protests.  Now, this year, a very real probability of a half-billion-dollar lawsuit by the city has raised the very real scepter of an attempt by the franchise to sabotage it's value, leaving the eventual Las Vegas successors (of which there's no guarantee they get the Raider name or legacy -- Oakland wins the suit, they get both!) holding the bag with the stadium at least two seasons off.  Very real chance that this situation is a sabotage job that could get VERY UGLY if it becomes clear it will cause the team to play in UNLV's stadium next year.
• Lions:  A team which has been at least a divisional option the last number of years is now a complete mess.  So bad that it is believed that the New York Jets had the Lions' playbook for a Week 1 MNF rout.
• Seahawks:  Largely seen as a rebuilding job to begin with, now one of the few remaining Legion of Boom holdovers wants out, the team is trying to hold it back, and now it appears that drama is going to explode all over the Hawks.

And then several other teams that just plain don't have it: Cardinals, Texans, etc. and so forth.

You really think that this league isn't being damaged by at least the league not looking at situations like Oakland, Buffalo, etc.?

Yeah and right.  It's one thing to be the job-boys.  We all know they exist.

It's quite another to be completely non-credible.