Which NFL Teams will take a step back in 2021?
Senior NFL Writers Terez Paylor and Charles Robinson discuss the teams who may not make a return trip to the playoffs next season. One big factor is uncertainty at quarterback. If your team does not have a star in place behind center, you could be on the outside looking in at the postseason next season. Hear the full conversation on the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen.
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TEREZ PAYLOR: What teams do you think are in danger of rolling back in 2021? Normally it's a team that loses in wild card weekend. Normally, it's one of those teams that barely just made the playoffs, like a team like Washington actually. Like a team that made the playoffs, was in the NFC East.
We're all high on them. But if they don't get the quarterback situation straightened out for good and they don't add more offensive weapons, and Dallas comes on strong, Dak Prescott comes back. Your Giants keep building. There's a scenario where they will make the playoffs next year. I think that's a pretty obvious one, don't you?
CHARLES ROBINSON: Yeah. Look, let's start with the playoff teams, right? Let's just go there right now. New Orleans. What the hell's going on at quarterback?
TEREZ PAYLOR: Definitely.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Explain to me what's going on at quarterback because you need to figure that out.
TEREZ PAYLOR: A horrendous cap situation. A brutal cap situation.
CHARLES ROBINSON: A horrible cap situation. What's going on at quarterback right there. Boom. Number 1. Chicago, OK? Again, with the same quarterback. You can say whatever you want about how Trubisky performed at the end of the year. You have no clue who your quarterback's going to be next year. Boom. Huge problem.
Indianapolis. Pick every team that doesn't have a quarterback situation resolved is a roll back team. Because until you fix that adequately and in a way that is going to affect your team in a positive manner, you're going to have issues. So obviously Indianapolis. Quietly, look, Baltimore-- I'm not happy with how it ended for Baltimore. I'm not.
TEREZ PAYLOR: That's interesting.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Like, I think that you have to show you're not going to keep running into the same problems in the playoffs with Lamar Jackson and turnovers. And, you know, I want to see Baltimore be healthy, number 1. I want to see them address. I don't think it's even remotely finished around Lamar Jackson. Like, if I'm them, I'm sitting there going, OK.
TEREZ PAYLOR: We got to get Allen Robinson.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Thank you.
TEREZ PAYLOR: If I'm those guys, I need Allen Robinson.
CHARLES ROBINSON: Yes.
TEREZ PAYLOR: Let's go. Allen Robinson, Kenny Golladay, come on down. I don't feel as bad about them. I'm not as worried about them just because they got the continuity. Like, Lamar will be back, and the O-line will be-- and like, the coordinators and stuff. Like, I'm OK with them.
CHARLES ROBINSON: I just don't like the fact that these seasons have ended so similarly two years in a row. Because like at some point you have to augment something to change that, OK? You can't be turning over the ball like this in the playoffs. You have to figure out how to augment that. And I feel like if you don't do it, that's when teams start to look around and go, this is kind of the same plan. Like, we're doing the same thing again, and then you start to have some problems.
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