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Go back to bed grampa. Defense is so 90's
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I think the days of winning with 21 points with any regularity are over. 30 is the new 20. I pretty much count stops these days. If the Chiefs get 4 stops, they'll win. So you root for individual drives rather than sit there and hope for some shutdown effort. Those just don't exist these days, IMO. They happen on occasions where you just go out and had that team's number on a given day (the Bengals game, for instance), but no matter what kind of defense you put on the field, You can't count on your defense just standing up and winning games for you anymore. The Ravens and Cowboys are the teams that appear to be trying that old-school approach this year and I don't think anyone's really all that worried about them - for good reason.
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You've gotta have superior athletes on D and have them play disciplined.
DJ brings up Dallas, and while their offense is ass, that defense is young and really good. I think that's the best D in the league. The Ravens just aren't athletic enough and the Jags are in shambles. |
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Just to put some stats to this discussion, I pulled the average points per game (per team) from Pro Football Reference. Not that there's anything magical about the 90s, but the average number of points scored per team per game was 20.15 from 1990-1999. I then looked at the average points per game for this year's offenses.
To cut to the chase, 24 of the 32 teams would be an "above average offense" in the 90s, and the closest team to the 90s average is the Redskins (and Cowboys). So there ya go. Alex Smith would be the leader of a league-average offense in the 90s. |
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That's probably expected DaFace.
I do think the changes in the rules make a difference. But so does the offensive coaching. You don't see a fullback and the I formation just pounding it ahead 25 times anymore. |
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Why do people keep saying this? I went back and watched it on my DVR immediately and I did not see him lined up offsides. That was a bad call.
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Yeah, I don't think he was offsides.
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It would be nice if someone could post a gif or pic of the moment the ball was snapped.
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I really wonder if that wasn't a "shit, I don't wanna get fired like that dude a couple of weeks ago..." thing.
I don't think he was lined up in the neutral zone either. It wasn't offsides - he timed that snap perfectly. But there's a chance he lined up in the neutral zone. Personally, I'm gonna say that the dude standing up 6 feet away from that ball looking right at it knew better and wasn't in the neutral zone. The camera doesn't tell us because the angle is off-center. But he got back there so quickly and a ref JUST got fired for missing a scoreboard altering call. So the referee that threw the flag just thought 'shit - I don't wanna be next and he was so quick off the line, he MUST have been offsides...' I think it was a bad call but not a malevolent one. It was no different than an umpire that misses a curveball because it was just so damn good that the umpire got fooled by it. I think Ford's get off was perfect, the ref was certain he must've gone early and got fooled.
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https://twitter.com/KSeaboldt/status...354467328?s=09 It was a huge, bad call they miraculously made up. Ford perfectly timed it and was not offsides. |
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