I don't know how you can simply say "In regard to talent level, that is one downside, but not a significant one." I highly doubt the NFL is going to spend millions of dollars on creating eight new teams, just to put an inferior product on the field. If you think about what you just said, with eight new teams, that would be roughly 400 new NFL players that previously hadn't been good enough to play NFL football. The talent pool would become so drained that you would end up with a college level game. Teams like the Patriots have lots of talent, they just don't have the superstars other teams have, but they still have the talent. You can't throw out a team of practice squad players, and expect to win a championship.
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