Well, the Patriots are AFC Champions once again. This despite being relentlessly mediocre and outside of Tom Brady having a roster that probably ranks in the bottom 3rd in the NFL who outside of Tom Brady who's best player is a pro bowl CB and a broken down TE. Sure, Bellichick's scheming and Brady's relentless competitiveness play a big role in sending this team back and keeping them right, but another big reason is the 15 other teams all of whom collectively fell flat on their faces. The Patriots at time practically tried to hand the AFC to someone else but everyone else said no. Here is a quick roast of the AFC
The rest of the AFC East: These three teams don't deserve the light of day. The Patriots practically have the division wrapped up before the start of the season because of the 3 stooge teams. Heck the Pats have all but wrapped up the division for the 2019 season because the rest of the division is so bad
Oakland: too busy tanking to field a real team
Jacksonville: Had the tools to beat New England but stupidly decided to stick with Blake Bortles and then spent more time running their mouths to be competitive
Cincinnati: Never going to win anything with Marvin Lewis and Mike Brown (but hey they fired Marvin Lewis, they best thing they did in the last 28 years
Denver: The last team to beat New England in a conference championship game. Too busy wasting Von Miller's career on a string of bad QBs, inferior head coaches, and John Elway's poor decision making
Cleveland: I can't make fun of this team, they accomplished a lot going from 1-31 to 7-8-1 in only a year.
Titans: They had the defense needed to stop the Pats (and showed it), unfortunately their Cro-Magnon offense was painfully boring and Marcus Mariota is not and never will be a franchise QB. He's a smaller Blake Bortles who has yet to be given a shot to choke against Brady
Steelers: This team had the talent necessary to win the AFC rather easily even with a shaky LB corp and secondary as 8 pro bowlers can attest. Unfortunately their head coach is more interested in sound bites and blaming X-ray machines than instilling discipline and actually preparing his team for anyone not named New England, the OC is a puppet installed to make the QB happy, their DC and Special teams coordinators are just plain incompetent, few position coaches are getting much out of the team, the team can't evaluate DBs to save their lives and the owner is Pennsylvania's Mike Brown, a guy who inherits a team because his father was an NFL legend but is too apathetic to actually make necessary changes. Put a slightly above average coaching staff on this team in this weak conference and this board is celebrating a 2nd straight AFC championship rather than complaining about the Pats winning it yet again
Texans: Another team with more talent than the Pats, a franchise QB, a stout D-line, and a talented WR, but doesn't sniff the Super Bowl because of incompetence at the head coaching position. Replace Bill O Brien with an above average head coach and Houston is celebrating an AFC title
Ravens: Had a strong defense, but Lamar Jackson is no where near Super Bowl ready (didn't want them winning it anyway)
Colts: Maybe a year or two away if their defense can improve. Not ready yet
And that leaves us with the two teams who bowed down to the Pats
Chargers: Lots of talent, arguably the most complete team with a franchise QB and solid defense, but got run over with an awful game plan they shat out and Phillip Rivers chokes again (I don't want to hear he is better than Ben)
Chiefs: Patrick Mahomes tried to win the AFC title, he tried his hardest, unfortunately the Chiefs shitty defense (especially Dee Ford) would have none of that. Pass rush stops Tom Brady, so Chiefs go soft zone. Chiefs get critical INT, Dee Ford goes offsides. Andy Reid still can't win a conference title unless he plays an 8-8 team in the divisional round and a team with a +3 point differential for the season in the conference Championship game.
I figured this would happen, the Pats would skate through the AFC as 15 moronic franchises stumble over themselves. Congrats AFC, you are the new NBA east. You let down 31 NFL fanbases who wanted to see someone other than New England go to the Super Bowl. Predicting what was going to happen at the end of that game was like predicting what color would the sky be today. Hats off to New England too, they have great coaching that maximizes their roster, competitiveness that keeps them going and a never say die attitude that allows them to take advantage of their weak conference. Congrats to them for also apparently being the only team that wants to win the AFC. Feel free to roast the rest of the conference below