As we prepare for another year of NFL football, let's take a look back at the highs and lows from 2014 for each team. Welcome to NFL Dos and Don'ts. If you missed one, you can read all our recaps right here.DoHere's the fucked up thing about football: half the teams would blow up their entire squad and start from scratch if they could get Matt Stafford and Calvin Johnson on the roster. And the Lions haven't done shit with them. That's not a knock on the Lions, it just illustrates how difficult it is to build a team capable of winning the Super Bowl. Think about all the Lions fans who are probably fed up with Stafford and just want to win, dammit, and then think about Browns fans trying to talk themselves into Josh McCown/Johnny Manziel throwing to the likes of Brian Hartline.There's such a steep drop off in talent once you get away from the truly dominant quarterbacks, and yet every team compares their own quarterback to Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady. Matt Stafford can't hang with those guys, but he's still an upgrade over most quarterbacks, and pretty damn good in his own right. And Calvin Johnson is even better. Look at this foolishness.Maybe it's better when good players aren't on your team, though, so you can truly appreciate them without all the expectations. The Patriots destroyed the Lions in this game 34-9, but I can watch this catch forever and not really care about that part.Don'tStephen Tulloch is back and ready to play this season, so I think it's fair game to point and laugh at this now. You never want to see someone get hurt, and you surely don't want to revel in another person's injury, but man, it's really hard not to here.
Tulloch was celebrating a sack in week three and tore his ACL. Again, brutal outcome, but also a pretty hilarious visual. There's an element of schadenfreude here for normal folks—other people's pain will always be funny, even truly painful stuff—and an element of karma for those joyless psychopaths who subscribe to the No Fun League school of thought.(As an aside, think about how crazy it is to say "he got what he deserved" simply because a guy celebrated. That actually happened.)Anyway, we're not saying don't celebrate, but please Don't tear your damn knee up wildly celebrating a Week 3 sack and miss the rest of the season.
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