Who or what destroyed the NFL?

Who or what destroyed the NFL?

Why is it so boring lately?

A 40 year old QB is still the star of the league.

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No defense allowed

It's struggling at the moment. Not sure why -- looks like my team is going to suck again this year so I have a hard time looking at it objectively.

Being a 40 years old QB is like being a 40 years old Goalkeeper, is not a big deal.

What?

Goal keepers don’t have to do shit for 90% of the game.

Bad coaching, good QBs getting older and worse, good athletes are moving to the defensive side of the ball so less scoring, young QBs needing an adjustment period to attune themselves to the league, better athletes means harder hits means more injuries. Mostly coaching though.

What about black commentators pre and post game?

Can anyone listen to their rambling madness?

>too many ads
>too many penalties
>too much emphasis on player safety (not that I disagree with it, but it kills the product)
>ridiculous ticket prices for good teams
>no authenticity... listen to the weekly "sunday night football" song for an example
>horrible stadium environment

Pic related is what you get if you're a fan for "excessive standing." So why the fuck would you pay $400 to sit down on a hard seat to watch the game with a bad view and with an $12 beer and $8 nachos when you could just watch it from your couch? Oh I know, probably because when you watch it at home you're bombarded by ads. It's hard to enjoy the fun when everything else sucks.

What did you do?

He literally told you in his post.

>"excessive standing."

Shoulda knelt, bro.

The spread offense is kind of boring to watch. It makes the game almost too spread out and the players look like they're randomly running around the field.

Running game sucks these days.

>>too much emphasis on player safety (not that I disagree with it, but it kills the product)
Rather than attempt to get refs to continually litigate games for safety purposes (which slows down the game's pace and tries viewer's patience), the league HAS to bring back weaker head protection. This only seems counter-intuitive, but player's need to have it hammered into their not-to-think-after-all skulls that the head is not a weapon, as reinforced plastic constructs has lead them to behave. It lends to players a false sense of security, and incentives them to lead-with-the-head, when the ability to give hard, bone-crunching tackles at speed assures a spot on the roster. But the concussion / degenerative brain disease issue is already doing serious damage to the feeder system (reports abound of decreased activity of pee-wee leagues, including a drastic reduction in the number of teams), and will continue to do so, snowballing over time rather than passing, as a fad.

I think it's mostly coaching, name the best coach after Bill. Andy Reid? Tomlin? Pete Carroll? lmao at those guys

Plays get called back WAY TOO MUCH over the softest touches called penalties

It's going the way of the NBA

I'm going back to baseball and giving hockey a try

How about emphasize proper tackling technique?

>getting removed from an NFL game for excessive standing

Seems like the Falcons are the only fun team to watch. God tier well balanced offense with a fast, young, hard hitting defense.

You can try to institute a two hand touch rule while you're at it, but what you will not be able to legislate is dissuasion of a hard tackler trying to prove his way onto the field and into a good pay-check, or a football coach's appreciation of that drive and athletic ability.

The problem must be approached from an angle appreciative of natural law, that the sought after effect is certain.

It's not exciting unless you're watching the Patriots, Falcons or Texans. Nobody seems to want to win anymore.

he's saying that experience and skills are more important than athleticism (to some degree). A Winger in soccer has to be able to do explosive running and have the endurance for a 90min + game , it doesn't matter how skilled he is; when he reachs a certain age his body just won't be able to perform enough for that role.

simlar rules goes for a receiver in fooball, if your body can't perform then it's over, simple as that. Young man's game.

QBs and Goalkeeping are completly different and more "forgiving", eg you have Brady and the likes of Gianluigi Buffon
not saying they're less talanted, just that their roles and ahtletic requierments make it possible

>forgetting about the Raiders

Yeah but the physical demands on quarterbacks are obviously more than that on goal keepers.

They get hit a lot.

fuck off concern troll

-clusterfuck rules
-awful refs

Nig nogs. And this should be a surprise to no one given their history of destroying literally everything else they are involved with once they reach the critical level of influence

Cuckolds can deny whatever they want but even they know the shit is true. Zimbabwe here we come

Today was a fucking amazing day for football

what are you talking about

The league shitting out new rules left and right which make every play feel less exciting.

the games today were great though

>Who or what destroyed the NFL?
The powers that be who wanted the passing offense to dominate
>Why is it so boring lately?
After every big play I feel like there's going to be a flag thrown for something, it seems like on every incomplete pass the receiver is looking for the ref to throw a flag, if you breathe on the QB too hard that's a flag, etc.

This.

Fuck drumpf and fuck white people ;^)

>the union is terrible, it is hardly helping players secure bigger contracts and continually enforces rule changes that lower the quality of play
>the commisioner is a spineless retard who constantly bows down to media pressure and wants to sap all the fun and life out of the game, watch OBJ get another 40,000 in fines for stuff he did off camera
>the players are all criminals and retards
>owners are all terrible bosses
>commercial punt return for 7 yards wait there's a flag commercial flag is announced commercial offense comes out repeat x4

>but player's need to have it hammered into their not-to-think-after-all skulls that the head is not a weapon,

That, or put a 15 inch spike on it and make it a fucking weapon. At least a tapered spike would absorb blows to the head more gradually.

the millennial-sjw level of rules killing the spirit of the game in the name of "safety" and "fairness". they're killing the sport with technicalities. get rid of replay, let the refs call it on the field and let it stand, good or bad. suck it up and deal with it.

Ask e how I know you were not at the game here today.

fucking socialistic policies have pervaded the nfl the last 20 years. salary caps are fucking ridiculous. if you're too poor an owner to compete for players, you shouldn't be owning an nfl team. sell them to someone who can, or move to arenaball.

>Go to a jets-bills game
>Commute takes nearly 2 hours because trains are garbage
>Have seats all the way up in third bowl
>Infested with bills fans
>Barely can see the field
>Food is expensive as fuck
>Getting out is even worse
>Commute also takes another two hours

Why couldn't the jets build a fucking stadium in manhattan then putting one in the meadowlands, which is in jersey and in a concrete jungle as well. My team can't even do well, and I'm pouring nearly 500 a game just to get there, have food, and maybe even get some merchandise. And the fans aren't any better

>>but player's need to have it hammered into their not-to-think-after-all skulls that the head is not a weapon,
>That, or put a 15 inch spike on it and make it a fucking weapon. At least a tapered spike would absorb blows to the head more gradually.

make the spike inverted, with a blunt end on the outside. the harder they use their head, or the more hits they make with it, it will drive the spike into their skulls, thereby nullifying their ability to play the sport... or breathe.

>living in or around a niggercentric part of the country

Decent day. Unless you count da burrs winning a game and the iggles putting the Giants 0-3

When Tom Brady retires the NFL will reach the point the NBA reached after all the 90's stars retired and be shit with few to no memorable players. The internet is killing everything we don't create stars anymore thanks to it.

>Unless you Count Da iggles putting the Giants 0-3

That's exactly why it was a great day for handegg

Great day eitherway, but that bullshit weighs it down a lot. But I'm liking how the raiders o line is being murdered tonight

thugs run it still.

watch the video it's the advice given to rookies by ex star players

youtu.be/Js7aktU5ZtU

>what are you talking about
You're replying to a same concern troll that always makes these threads

I can't believe you got a straight red. It was at most a yellow card offence.

>literally every new rule is made to protect this cracker

the union is looking out for its guys

proof in video

youtu.be/Js7aktU5ZtU

Nfl seems good as ever, its like kneeling about anything.

>implying any owner cares about winning when they can still make money losing

niggers

meme college offenses are leading to o-line talent being less prepared for pro-style play, which is a pretty big deal in an offense-oriented and pass-oriented league

Niggers. They destroy everything.

>Who or what destroyed the NFL?

Roger fucking Goodell, spending the last dozen years pandering the League to women, hispanics, and overseas markets

none of them give a fuck about the NFL without the pandering, and you can never pander enough. meanwhile, the game turns to shit with retarded rule changes designed to make up for the near total lack of quality QB's for a 32 team league.

Rodger Goodell
check 'em

theres not that many nig nogs

Goodell is a fucking faggot. Are they going to renew him?

He literally destroyed the sport.

go back to Sup Forums

pass first offenses are actually boring to watch because they fail to create tension

t. constantly triggered cuck

The NFL is destroying itself. Not by any of this kneeling shot, but by allowing refs to decide a win/loss with zero repercussions, and too many commercials.

The Lions got fucked today. The officials made a bad call on what wasn't a TD and reviewed it. Then because they decided to review it and overturn what was a bad on the field call, they took the rest of the time off the clock and ended the game like that.

If that happened to my team, I think I'd probably quit this """sport""". Right now it's the commercials that are doing me in, along with a lot of the bullshit rules and all that.

It's tiring and games aren't allowed to be great anymore when officials just fuck it all up.

Football players are primadonnas.

That’s the difference between then and now.

The NFL has some real headwinds looking forward. Once Brady retires who is there? It's been Brady/Manning for 10+ years now. They will be facing the same problem NASCAR had when Earnhardt died.

On top of that we in the midst of fundamental shift in how people consume media that is impact the league's bottom line.

Then there are the player safety concerns which are only going to become a larger concern going forward. We've witnessed new rule changes put in place for player safety that are changing the face of the game and not for the better.

Nah it's mostly officiating that people hate. Games never used to be won or lost on the whims of a ref like now

I mean no one is forcing you to play football.

If you’re in the NFL making a mil a year how can you complain about brain damage?

Brain damage is part of the sport and will never disappear. Either play or don’t play.

>Brain damage is part of the sport and will never disappear
Old timie footballers used to gimp around a lot, but a mess load of them didn't have need to resort to killing themselves because they'd been subjected to repetitive brain injuries over the course of their careers. The occasional concussions from the odd hit from the side, yes, but not play after play.

It can disappear. Leather helmets, I tell you.

It would probably decrease the brain damage but it might increase serious injuries due to inadvertent hits.

The NFL is not like the 50s football where white guys were playing and having fun. These people are steroided monsters they can kill somebody with their heads.

Broadcasting contracts. Why can't I pay $100 a year to watch football on my TV in the US, but I can in Europe? Fucking makes me so mad. Can someone who is smarter than me explain to me why this makes sense? Are football games really worthless to networks if they don't have "exclusive" rights?

cmon americans, join the dark side

I don't think the feeder system is coming back. A generation of kids is growing up not playing football and it's not going to change without changes drastic enough that the game that comes out the other side won't be football anymore.

And with this shit, we could see our sport die and soccer take over, which sucks because we love football, and it's our passion. But these fucking idiots, endless commercial breaks, and primadona players are killing the game.

Football is so random compared to other sports and baseball is essentially math. Soccer is in-between somewhere and it makes it hard for me to watch.

Think I'm switching to hockey. If soccer ever gets popular in America it will just be filled with brown players.

This. Hockey is a cold mans sport. Blacks hate the cold.

Hockey is the best choice behind baseball, but baseball will probably be filled with so many Spanish players that there will be entire teams where the roster is just gonzales

Tom Brady destroyed the game and it has trickled downward.

The Tuck Rule was the beginning of the end and it only got worse from that point.

Peewee is getting hammered because of inflation.

The price to play football today is in the thousands of dollars.

It is more than likely a dollars issue rather than a safety issue.

Add massive spic immigration, and now kneeling, bye bye nfl

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The refs

Spics play baseball a lot, but they often can't do well. They go straight into soccer. Football will die because of the politics, and solely from kaepernick taking a knee. Once he did that, it fucked up the entire league.

Because of Tom Brady they began to protect the QB as a position more and more.

Lo and behold, the same season you had Vinny Testaverde play them on Sept. 23rd and Vinny was basically a walking injured wreck. That was probably the starkest difference between the eras at that point.

Don't get me wrong, Brady is more than likely the top 3 if not the best Quarterback to ever play the game.

He was playing a different game from the beginning of his career though.

Wtf are you talking about some of the best players have been Puerto Ricans and Dominicans.

-not letting defenses play defense
-taming player celebrations
-taming shit talking a player could do
-letting politics enter the league more and more
-the AFC being dominated by the same teams for over 10 years

Thats how the game got more boring

I'm talking about Mexicans, not puerto ricans and DR's.

It’s just odd the NFL has ruled for sock height, what cleats you wear and touchdown celebrations but theyr ambivalent over whether or not you support the national anthem.

this video does a good job of explaining why watching today is so frusturating

youtube.com/watch?v=olKvtHM4TXo

OH, HI ELI

Was the 50's not football? All that's missing from it is the air attack which came just a bit later.
>The price to play football today is in the thousands of dollars.
A redesign of the equipment to tailor the play changes that too. Or at least may keep the cost to parents within reason.
The make up of the average league player may also change a bit with an equipment change, just as fatties returned to the game as a fallout to the dangers of horse steroids being demonstrated with Lyle Alzado's death and in the aborted career of Brian Bosworth.
Nothing is keeping spics from taking up football. Except for soccer, and a distinct lack of a culture of assimilation which got them into baseball.

>11 minutes of action over three hours
>teams moving cities, ruins the history
>get lectured on racial inequality by millionaires following a hastag

Who wants to subject themselves to this shit? And soon they'll be bringing out the pink gear to make the league even more unwatchable. Fuck this, there are more interesting things to do with the limited time you have in life.

Stop shilling your gay video. I agree with everything they're saying tho

I'm not shilling it, I just thinks it makes an amazing point that no one else ever brings up. The feeling of "wait, did that count?" is something a lot of people feel but can't articulate.

I want one

I like it.

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Are you high or something? Falcons son

So you’re saying it’s the Jews.

It's true, I think most people recognise that feeling as boredom. All the rules penalising good defense were designed to make the game more exciting and they've done the opposite. And there's so many rules-inside-rules now that, every other game I wach, play stops dead for a few minutes while the refs try to figure out what the fuck is going on. They need to simplify shit desu

>every running play
>player runs up the middle for no gain