Dink and duck their way to history folks!

Yeah, all they're doing is 5 yard passes.

Well, he had a nice cast of pass catching options as well. There's no denying that the rules favor the offense and they run plays to maximize what the rules allow, but last I checked... it all counts.

It's not just Peyton - there were a lot of QBs that had big statistical years when you look at yardage, especially.

Got to hand it to the owners. They did a great job of screwing up a once great game. Turned a competitive contest into a circle jerking quarterback derby. Kind of like watching a home run contest when there is only the pitcher and the batter on the field with no defense or base running.

Your tears are delicious.

I'll admit that this thread gives me a little hope. We've had the league turn into a scoring derby before, and it's eventually come back to sanity. Admittedly, this is a huge surge and it's the longest sustained surge with no signs yet of slowing down, but maybe at some point saner heads will prevail.

I still stand by my comments, though, that the marketing people are running the league and they don't know about or care about football. That's the part that's scary. Do they even realize that this is a problem?

I don't think they'll figure it out until more fans realize it's a problem and the NFL's bottom line is significantly impacted. Just look at the Chiefs... people were lining up for season tickets because their team that hasn't won a playoff game in 20 years flushed their coaches and GM. They played a bunch of shitty teams in front of sold out crowds. No problems here.

I think it'll be like any other big business... slow to adjust since the focus is on the bottom line, and too big to fail when they finally realize something is wrong.

Homerun Derby is the perfect analogy.