So goes the NFL. Jets lose Rodgers before the season and have a winning record.
Arguably your worst post and that’s saying A LOT.
You are the guy who hates all rule changes in baseball, and you want to change the NFL to a touch football league for the QB? Or play with an extra man? Ridiculous. The rules already favor the offense, and scoring is high enough, certainly higher than it was "back in the day".
Apples and oranges my friend. The NFL is only behind the NBA in making the game more "watchable". Baseball has over 100 year history of the way the game was played, and baseball is so statistically driven that future comparisons of baseball players is really difficult. That was thrown away years ago with football. In 10 of the 13 games this weekend in the NFL, one of the teams scored less than 18 or less points, one shutout, two teams had 3, one team 6. Busy day for punters this week.
No doubt the Titans are offensively challenged. But I'm talking about the league in general. And yes, I also believe the QB's are put way too high on the pedestal of being saviors, I think many NFL teams are run by guys who are not as interested winning, but being "exciting" and having hope. These young QB's are not ready to play, but are being thrown in to the mix and defenses are dominating football.
Like I said, it won't happen, but I just wanted to throw out some ideas for a more exciting game. NFL defensive players are still good enough that I don't think it would become arena football.
They are in a worse habit of not being able to afford to hold on to some of their better players, or have the high quality depth they used to have, due to having to pay Mahomes. Happened to the Ravens with Flacco and will happen again with Jackson. Happened to Seattle with Wilson. Happened to the Vikings with Cousins. Happened to the Saints with Brees. Happened to the Packers with Rodgers. It will happen to the Bengals with Burrow and the Browns with Watson. When you sign that QB to the mega contract you eventually lose the roster depth you once enjoyed.
Well, the others may not have worked out as well, but for KC, if #15 isn't behind center, they are a .500 or worse team. He means that much to them. I'm sure the Packers felt Rodgers was worth every penny and they'd love to bring him back. They are in QB purgatory for now. But I don't fee bad for a franchise who had two franchise QB's covering what 30 years? We see these teams who play QB roulette for seemingly 20 years and never win.
For the teams that get a Lombardi Trophy or two out of it, everything is great. For those who don’t, frustration can ensue.
Vikings can’t catch a break. It looks like Justin Jefferson will be back soon, but Cam Akers is done for the year.
That and most college QBs aren't learning how to read a defense and check from one play to another because their coach is literally signaling it all to them from the sidelines.
When basketball players are throwing in shots from everywhere, it's said they are "in the zone". It looked like Stroud was "in the zone" on those last few drives. Those last two throws were on point, looked like the Buc Db's were frozen in time.
The main difference and it's the same from high school to college. The defenses get better and the windows are smaller. It's like anything else, the higher you go up the players get better. College guys can get away with missing a throw here or there and in the throws it's a pick 6, and with bigger, stronger, faster guys chasing you.
Somewhat related, I often wonder why a defender chasing his opponent - seemingly in the hip pocket - doesn't just tackle rather than chasing halfway down the field. Blows my mind - until a different angle shows the defender is not nearly as close as it first appeared. Light comes on...
Give Vikings credit instead of doing nothing after Cousins got injured, they went out and got Dobbs.
Yes. I don’t know how long he can keep it up, but so far so good. Keeping the Vikings in the playoff chase.
Dobbs is f-in genius. They said 4.0 in aero engineering. While on a D1 football schedule? smh.
Congratulations.