It's because of a shortened camp, fewer stars attending camp, shortened preseason with fewer starters playing in it, and the trend towards younger and younger head coaches.
confetti_shrapnel
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The Flores one is interesting to me. He took over a pretty bad Dolphins team. He had one bad year with them then gave them their first back-to-back winning seasons ('20-'21) since '02-'03.
Everyone is anointing Mike McDaniel as some guru (which might be true) when he them the exact same 9-8 record they had the year before under Flores.
McDaniel is a good coach but Flores was a successful young coach by any measure and by no means deserved to be fired.
A lot of injured starters. BUT, I think the quality of play has been going down generally the past few years. I think the major reasons are the shortened camps, fewer vets attending camp, shortened preseason with fewer starters playing in preseason, and the trend toward young head coaches.