The NFL As It Is Now

[RuthlessBurgher]

Re: The NFL As It Is Now

Why in football does lots of offense get so much disdain. Americans claim to hate soccer because a 1-0 win is a good score but it is considered boring. We want our Penguins scoring like mad with Crosby getting hat tricks every night. We love fast break basketball. We love home runs in baseball not pitchers duels. In NASCAR we want more speed not slow tactical races. Yet everyone acts like high powered offense in football is a bad thing.

I would much rather watch what we saw with the Packers and the Saints than 30 3-yard up the middle runs and lots of punts trying to get field position with a 13-10 game decided by a FG. I think most fans and especially the fans of the future feel the same way.

I said it in other threads...Ben spread 'em out and let the ball go. That is what we have to strive to be the best at or we will not beat the Packers, Saints or Patriots or any other team that embraces that kind of offense. The NFL is never going to go back to "three yards and a cloud of dust." They aren't ever going to look at games and say lets reduce the offense and help the defense. In the 24/7 media world we live in where everything is instantaneous at our fingertips we won't ever go backwards. It isn't in the nature of America to go backwards.

A) You don't speak for all fans.

B) Part of this outrage is because of the ridiculous nature of the penalties and rules - where flags and fines are thrown out on a wildly inconsistent basis. And it's not gotten to the point where defenders are flagged for so much as breathing on the quarterback or "tackling in an intimidating manner".

Don't recall saying I speak for all fans. I asked a rhetorical question.

Fans can long for the "good ole days," but they aren't ever coming back.

I haven't heard a single person longing for a Franco/Rocky based smashmouth offense here (or even a Bettis/Fuamatu-Ma'Afala offense for that matter). No one here objects to putting up points through the air. People are just concerned whenever players are fined simply for hitting people too hard (blows to the head should be eliminated, but penalizing plays like Harrison's hits on Brees or Fitzgerald last year are ludicrous) and that we are moving closer to pansy Pro Bowl rules where the defense is totally neutered. No one is asking to go back in time to wear Deacon Jones was allowed to club o-lineman in the head...we just want defenders to be able to actually tackle someone instead of playing two-hand-touch out there.

[Djfan]

Re: The NFL As It Is Now

I haven't heard a single person longing for a Franco/Rocky based smashmouth offense here (or even a Bettis/Fuamatu-Ma'Afala offense for that matter). No one here objects to putting up points through the air. People are just concerned whenever players are fined simply for hitting people too hard (blows to the head should be eliminated, but penalizing plays like Harrison's hits on Brees or Fitzgerald last year are ludicrous) and that we are moving closer to pansy Pro Bowl rules where the defense is totally neutered. No one is asking to go back in time to wear Deacon Jones was allowed to club o-lineman in the head...we just want defenders to be able to actually tackle someone instead of playing two-hand-touch out there.

This is exactly my take on it.