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Scoring is down marginally with fully half the league around the 20 ppg mark. Very few teams at 25 ppg and above.
A few weeks ago Brady said he's seeing a lot of bad football. He wasn't looking in the mirror though, and maybe he should have. But he wasn't wrong when evaluating what he was seeing on the TV.
It's not only Green Bay and Tampa Bay stinking it up. The Rams and Chargers have underwhelmed compared to last year. The Raiders have fallen off the map. The Broncos got Russell Wilson who is currently working his way out of the HOF. This is now a league wide problem.
Heck, look at the NY teams, both of these teams combined are 11-3, and neither of them have any semblance of a passing game.
You do have a bunch of bonehead coaches who swear by analytics passing up FGs that will either extend their leads to 2 scores or bring them within 1.
All around, the product is not what it used to be.
Belichick called the first few weeks extended preseason, and maybe he's right that the new CBA rules have caused teams to put their plans together much much later in the calendar than in the past. Maybe teams will ramp up now that we're about midway through the season. It may happen. BUT it's also the time of year when teams start losing players to season ending IR, and the latter 3rd of the season sometimes becomes a slog.
The parity is great for the league. The football product though is really bad for the league.
7 games into the season, only 8 QBs have thrown for more than 10 TDs. We'll end the year with a bunch of QBs having thrown less than 20 TDs and a bunch in the 20s.
Now--there may be a lot of reasons for all of this, like the CBA and practices.
But I'm going to go one level beyond that. The offensive players are not getting the level of instruction that they used to in college. It's a new generation. Ultra talented athletically. But the coaching / instruction / learning level isn't there any more. There's a lot more ineptitude. Maybe Belichick noticed this happening which lead to all the "simplifying" of the offense. Maybe the pandemic has had an impact as people being sick and out has caused some delay. Heck, the college football season was half canceled 2 years ago. I don't know what it is, but it's clear that Tom Brady was right, there's a lot of bad football.
A few weeks ago Brady said he's seeing a lot of bad football. He wasn't looking in the mirror though, and maybe he should have. But he wasn't wrong when evaluating what he was seeing on the TV.
It's not only Green Bay and Tampa Bay stinking it up. The Rams and Chargers have underwhelmed compared to last year. The Raiders have fallen off the map. The Broncos got Russell Wilson who is currently working his way out of the HOF. This is now a league wide problem.
Heck, look at the NY teams, both of these teams combined are 11-3, and neither of them have any semblance of a passing game.
You do have a bunch of bonehead coaches who swear by analytics passing up FGs that will either extend their leads to 2 scores or bring them within 1.
All around, the product is not what it used to be.
Belichick called the first few weeks extended preseason, and maybe he's right that the new CBA rules have caused teams to put their plans together much much later in the calendar than in the past. Maybe teams will ramp up now that we're about midway through the season. It may happen. BUT it's also the time of year when teams start losing players to season ending IR, and the latter 3rd of the season sometimes becomes a slog.
The parity is great for the league. The football product though is really bad for the league.
7 games into the season, only 8 QBs have thrown for more than 10 TDs. We'll end the year with a bunch of QBs having thrown less than 20 TDs and a bunch in the 20s.
Now--there may be a lot of reasons for all of this, like the CBA and practices.
But I'm going to go one level beyond that. The offensive players are not getting the level of instruction that they used to in college. It's a new generation. Ultra talented athletically. But the coaching / instruction / learning level isn't there any more. There's a lot more ineptitude. Maybe Belichick noticed this happening which lead to all the "simplifying" of the offense. Maybe the pandemic has had an impact as people being sick and out has caused some delay. Heck, the college football season was half canceled 2 years ago. I don't know what it is, but it's clear that Tom Brady was right, there's a lot of bad football.