NFL has a bad football problem
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Picking the Bears as a kid was second only to not buying Apple stock for biggest dip **** moves. They have money, are in a big market and just completely poop the bed every year. Their mismanagement should be a criminal offense.
Thankfully my fandom of the Bears is 1/100 of the Huskers... unfortunately the Huskers suck too.
Looks like I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue!
Thankfully my fandom of the Bears is 1/100 of the Huskers... unfortunately the Huskers suck too.
Looks like I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue!
Here's where I usually jump in to defend the NFL. I enjoy it more than college football and it's the best thing going today. And I like low scoring, physical football games. But that was terrible football. It used to be that such a low scoring game was the product of a duel of backup QBs going against great defenses. But both offenses had their starting QBs and just about every skill position player healthy. And neither defense is considered to be top 10. It's clear that most offenses need that full week of recovery and preparation.
Expanding the schedule was just a money grab. If they wanted a longer season, they could have added a bye week and stayed at 16 games. Then had Thursday night games being played only by teams coming off byes. But instead the NFL added a 17th game without an extra bye week-- not just for money, but to make it easier to move games to foreign countries. My Steelers just played their third game in 11 days. Let that sink in for a moment. We're talking NFL regular season football. Played at 12-3 Philadelphia, at 11-5 Baltimore, and at home against 15-1 Kansas City. And the NFL cares about player safety? Right!
What I am a bit concerned with the NFL is. What is the revolving door in the transfer portal going to do for development of players. NFL has players that needed 4-5 years of development in college then popped in the league. The way it is going those players won’t have the opportunity to develop with the combo of the portal and roster limits. It may take a few years but I think we will see ramifications of this eventually.
John Gruden said this on bussing with the boys. Actually was a pretty good conversation. Worth a listen if you are a podcast guy.
Exactly. There's already been big shifts in scheme just due to the fact that there's way more air raid and other "system" players now than ever before from the college realm. Takes extra time to develop to pro standards, even some great ones. Now factor this in...