NFL has a good intention of reducing injuries, but horrible execution. It must be incredibly frustrating to be a defender in the NFL these days, because each new rule seems to move things closer and closer to it being impossible to play the position effectively.
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NFL has a good intention of reducing injuries, but horrible execution
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the fear CTE related lawsuits, thus the "player protection" rules.
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With the new interest due to betting and fantasy football, and the shortage of reasonable QBs, the NFL will go way over board to protect the QBs. An incidental graze of a helmet with a hand is a PF. Sacking a QB risks a PF.
They hand out fines for questionable penalties, where even if you call it, it's not like the player deliberately tried to break a rule.
here's been so many situations where I see a defender flagged for unnecessary roughness and my only thought during the replay is "well, if he can't do that, then how is he supposed to stop the offensive player from getting more yards?"
Exactly.
I preferred games form 10 years ago to those today. Too many ticky tack penalties, too much inflated scoring.
The game was more interesting when there was more of a run-pass balance. Now passing dominates. If you don't have a top 10 passer you are at a huge disadvantage. This make steh game less interesting as a whole. Its great if you are one of those 10-12 teams, but for the other 20 team sit's less enjoyable than when it was more balanced.
Do you think we have less parity now than we did 10 years ago?
I'd say there is more parity today.
Probably teams are more aware of stupid moves and there are fewer teams doing really bad contracts and trades, and other rookie salaries are different from 2008. And more teams are using analytics.
Plus Brady is retired :-)
Inflated scoring? The last 2 seasons are the lowest scoring seasons since 2010.
Not that guy and not arguing. But I wonder if that might be due to the league moving toward a much more pass friendly ruleset but the amount of QBs being skilled enough not growing. There are about 10 QBs any given year who are high level and safe. The rest of the teams would gladly change QBs if one of those 10 became available.
The new focus on explosive passing offense is still limited by the ability of the QBs at the helm. So offenses predicated on passing being led by average or below QBs can't perform. The offenses then are in a bad position because they require QB ability that isn't available and the run game of those offenses are a secondary thought.
Idk why but it's funny you saying that when 10 years ago the Broncos scored 606 points and the closest any other team got was 445 (the bears)
The game hasnt been the same since the early 2000s and prior.
I was listening to ESPN radio last night and they were talking about this. Jaylen Warren was running down the sidelines and instead of going out of bounds he put his shoulder into the defenders chest and got another few yards before being taken out of bounds.
No flag, nothing remarked during the game. After the game he was fined more than he made that game after taxes. This dude basically went out there and when it was said and done had to pay the NFL for that game instead of getting paid.
Radio people made a couple of points. Could it be the NFL is cracking down on these fines for leverage at the next CBA. Or maybe they are pushing these fines so when the players speak out the NFL can say "look, we are trying to make the game safer but the players are pushing back".
Its a fucked up system. Fines should really be saved for egregious plays or repeat offenders.
What I don’t understand is why are players being fined for plays that are in the rule book as penalties?
Yeah, you’re not allowed to do that. That is why your team got penalized 15 yards. You don’t have to fine the guy thousands of dollars too.
Like is the NHL fining players for their penalties? Does the NBA fine you if you get above 4 fouls? Does the MLB fine you if you (accidentally) hit a batter?
It really just boils down to: why the fuck are players being fined for things that were considered “part of the game” enough to be implemented in the rule book?
It’s not like they are out there fucking stomping on people’s faces.
The NHL does fine players for on ice penalties, but the amount a player can be fined is limited by their CBA - I think it is $5,000
Probably because they are fining guys for regular football plays? Did you see they fined pancake pat for pancaking a defender on a goal line run last week? Lol, seriously watch that and tell me what the issue is
Idk maybe it secretly goes to paying for free military recruitment. Wouldn’t that be a pleasant surprise since we were secretly paying tons of money as a taxpayer for the nfl to advertisethe advertisment we paid for to ourselves. I hate the nfl tbh. I think it’s just time for a boycott. Sick of watching small market teams get the shaft every week too from the refs. Not just mine.
In the next CBA I guarantee that the owners are going to offer to make it less punitive in exchange for financial concessions from the players.