These 5 NFL teams are going to have the No. 1 overall pick soon

These five NFL franchises could have the No. 1 overall pick here shortly.

Even the losers get lucky sometimes.

Most of you know how it feels to root for a bad football team. We’re not trying to be mean here, but if you ain’t first, you’re last. If someone’s getting better, it only means someone else is getting worse. The NFL is a league of parity, as it’s designed that way.

If your favorite team is festering garbage, your favorite incompetent franchise will be rewarded with top draft selections.

Last year, the Cincinnati Bengals were the equivalent of toothless stuffed animals out there on fall Sundays. They looked terrible and we were afraid Zac Taylor would go one-and-done as their head coach. Then again, octogenarian owner Mike Brown has never eaten a cent on a contract in his life, so Taylor got to coach in the Senior Bowl down in Mobile and drafted some outstanding players.

With college stars like Joe Burrow and Tee Higgins, Cincinnati could be one of the shockingly good teams in the AFC this year. Maybe they can achieve the good kind of Jeff Fisher 7-9 B.S.? We can only hope. Other franchises such as the Arizona Cardinals, the Cleveland Browns, the Los Angeles Rams and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have picked No. 1 overall in the last half-dozen years or so.

While these five organizations know what it’s like to be at the epicenter of recent NFL Drafts, let’s take a look at five other NFL teams who wreck their fanbase just about every given Sunday. We should expect a breakdown in these five organizations in the next few years. If they have the No. 1 pick in the next three or four years, don’t say I didn’t tell you so. The waiting is the hardest part.

Here are five NFL teams who might be drafting No. 1 overall here in a bit.

Somebody has to be No. 5. As much as it stinks to pile on Danny Dimes and his forever fumbling ways, we haven’t seen anything out of the New York Giants in the last three seasons that leads us to believe they’re going to be a making the NFC playoffs anytime soon. Daniel Jones may be the second coming of Eli Manning in the Big Apple, but how sure are we that’s even a good thing?

There are a few reasons the Giants could totally bottom out here in the next three or four years. Jones may become the NFC East version of Mitchell Trubisky, an overdrafted signal-caller from an ACC Coastal school better known for its men’s hoops team than for what it does on the gridiron. He may have upside than the former North Carolina Tar Heel, but he was still overdrafted.

While new head coach Joe Judge could be special, it still feels like a panic hire to get someone off Bill Belichick’s staff and not let him go coach his alma mater Mississippi State Bulldogs in the SEC.

Then there’s Giants general manager Dave Gettleman, who is going to do whatever he damn well pleases in the war room. He’s hitched his wagon to Jones, Saquon Barkley and Andrew Thomas as his last three first-round picks. It could pan out, but the Giants could also wind up with the No. 1 pick.