NFL: Are You Ready for Some (Really Bad) Football?

During the fall, Sunday nights on NBC and Monday nights on ESPN are expected to show the best games every week during the NFL season.

This season has not been the case...at all.

The NFL fans have already been witness to three appearances of the 1-13 Indianapolis Colts, two appearances of the 4-9 Miami Dolphins, two appearances of the 4-10 Jacksonville Jaguars, two appearances of the 2-11 Minnesota Vikings and two appearances of the 2-11 St. Louis Rams, among others.

Now, NFL schedules are made well in advance of the NFL season—a time when people thought Peyton Manning would be the Colts quarterback and not the trio of Kerry "Cuervo" Collins, Curtis "Cameron Diaz" Painter and Dan "D'oh!" Orlovsky.

The schedules were made during a time when people thought even the Rams could contend in a woeful NFC West—a time when it seemed like even a possibility that Donovan McNabb and Adrian Peterson could help the Vikings contend for a playoff spot.

On the flip side, no one expected anything out of the Miami Dolphins or the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Dolphins entered this year off of back to back 7-9 seasons, with a quarterback who had posted consecutive seasons with a rating barely breaking 75 (not good for those of you unfamiliar with how QB rating works).

As for the Jaguars, they finished 2010 8-8, but gave up 26.2 points per game—sixth most in the league, and only beat two teams with a record of .500 or better. Before the 2011 season started, they released four-year starting quarterback David Garrard before Week 1, putting "the great" Luke McCown under center to start the season.

This season, the average winning percentage of teams that have played on Sunday Night football is .564, not terrible, but could be a lot better considering.

As for Monday Night football, the average winning percentage of teams that have played this season is .481: That is quite depressing for one of the two games shown to a national TV audience each week expected to draw upward of 10 million viewers.

If the league is looking to be fair to all and get as many teams on as possible, they need to stop doing so immediately.

Are you ready for (some more) really bad football?