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To: stylin_geek

Sorry, dude, your observations are, well, for lack of a better word, moronic.

Do you really think that conventional wisdom used in the NFL now isn’t from years of experience and trial & error amongst the coaches and managers over the years to determine what works best? Do you really think that running QBs don’t flourish in the NFL because coaches and GMs lack imagination? Or, they understand the game and how to protect their QB but get maximum value from that QB? Oh, no, no, no! Coaches and GMs need to adapt to the poor throwing of Tim Tebow!

Starting QBs are hard to replace. Teams don’t want to take unnecessary risks with their investments. That’s why they want them in the pocket hopefully making quick reads and decisions with the ball. That’s also why rules get stricter and stricter to protect QBs.


95 posted on 04/23/2015 12:42:03 PM PDT by nonamer
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To: nonamer

I made observations which are demonstrably true.

The NFL has changed the rules to favor the passing attack.

When rules are changed in order to favor one thing over another, it brings about uniformity and stifles imagination.

The NFL, for better or worse, is what it is, a money making business. The owners think more points on the board equal more money in the bank, hence the rule changes in favor of passing.

I knocked the NFL in general, using Tim Tebow’s style of play as an example.

More than a few players call the NFL “The No Fun League.”

You can call my views names all you want, but it doesn’t make what I said wrong or untrue.

The NFL and its coaches have no imagination.

I also said that it is unrealistic for an offense to have a run option QB and a classic drop back passer as a back up, or vice versa. It would require two different offenses and that just isn’t practical.

For Tim Tebow to play in the league, or someone like him, would require imagination, a new offensive scheme and a backup QB that can also run the read option.

None of that is going to happen, because if it doesn’t work (and I don’t know that it would) a coach would be out of a job. (there’s that guts thing)


99 posted on 04/23/2015 1:03:28 PM PDT by stylin_geek (Never underestimate the power of government to distort markets)
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