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Johnny Nix

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Johnny Nix

Johnny Nix

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What are some of the glaring problems you see with the game?

1. Lack of Quality Offensive Lines- this is only going to get worse, as the good ones are starting to age and college isn’t pumping out enough quality players to replace them. Coaches turn the studs into defensive players and get by with subpar play. Doesn’t quite work in the NFL. 

2. Rules affecting defensive play- gone are the days of shut down defense. Teams will be drafting guys with the hopes of just slowing offenses down or getting a couple stops. Sad to see. 

3. NFL shift toward high scoring offenses- this goes hand in hand with #2. It’s exciting to watch offenses light up the score board, but equally as frustrating to watch defenses get destroyed. It’s turning into “the offense that has the ball last wins”. Broken Long standing records also lose their meaning to me in this day and age. 

 

What other problems do you see and how does the NFL fix them?

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BleedTheClock

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The refs can all die and burn in hell. From pee-wee to the NFL, from tennis to football.

 

And QB's are going to be more and more difficult to find. True QB's. In youth football, everyone wants to be a WR now. Everyone wants to be Odell Beckham. Hell, our 2 starting QB's in the last 2 years on the team I coach (HS) asked to be switched to WR.  And with spread offenses becoming a thing, QB's get accustomed to throwing against vanilla zones, which they never see in the NFL.

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3 minutes ago, BleedTheClock said:

The refs can all die and burn in hell. From pee-wee to the NFL, from tennis to football.

 

And QB's are going to be more and more difficult to find. True QB's. In youth football, everyone wants to be a WR now. Everyone wants to be Odell Beckham. Hell, our 2 starting QB's in the last 2 years on the team I coach (HS) asked to be switched to WR.  And with spread offenses becoming a thing, QB's get accustomed to throwing against vanilla zones, which they never see in the NFL.

I think you're vastly overstating the QB thing. 

First, your QBs may have wanted to switch to WR but did either of them have the arm talent to potentially get offers from a division 1 school? No QB that has the potential to get those offers is going to want to change position, these kids are recognized for their arms well before they even get to high school and are bred through middle School and high school to be division 1 QBs.

Second, spread offendes have been dominant in college for the better part of 20 years now, it's not something that just started and many of the young QBs in the NFL right now played in spread offenses in college including the current front runner for MVP.

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The refs are often incredibly bad at their job, so annoying. Re-train them, get them better at their job. Continuous improvement is the thing to strive for. It can happen. 

Really like the influx of new young coaches with fresh ideas on how to move the ball, or stop the other team from moving the ball.

Basically, the NFL rocks. It's always rocked. 

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jaa1025

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Over saturation. They really need to get rid of thursday night football. It's generally very bad football because teams don't have time to prepare and recover from the previous week. 

I agree that the lines are awful. Colleges aren't developing them because everyone is going heavy quick strike passing it seems. Plus, as OP said, the best athletes are moving to the dline. 

 

I'll add the QB pay. Bad QB's are getting paid more than elite non QB's.  It's only going to get worse. Mahomes probably will get 40mil per when he gets an extension. They need to cap the QB pay somehow. Maybe max contracts like the NBA?

2018 AAS

1) Rodgers

2) Matt Ryan

3) Kirk Cousins

4) Garoppolo (Bought into the hype, now injured...at least his contract is front loaded)

5) Stafford

6) Carr

7) Brees

8) Luck

9) Mack (Mega Contract after traded)

10) Alex Smith (LOLOLOL)

11) Donald (Mega Contract just signed)

12) Joe Flacco (lolololol)

13) Wilson

14) Big Ben

15) Eli Manning (LOLOLOLOL)

16) Rivers

17) Newton 

18) Brady (underpaid)

19) Bradford (are you kidding me? He just got cut)

20) Tannehill (JFC)

21) Von Miller

22) OBJ (New contract)

23) Case Keenum (lol)

24) Blake Bortles (someone should be arrested for this)

25) Demarcus Lawrence, Ziggy Ansah

 

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On 11/5/2018 at 7:25 PM, johndeere1707 said:

1. Lack of Quality Offensive Lines- this is only going to get worse, as the good ones are starting to age and college isn’t pumping out enough quality players to replace them. Coaches turn the studs into defensive players and get by with subpar play. Doesn’t quite work in the NFL. 

This isn't going away. College teams are running so much spread and RPO, OL aren't taught to block and pull effectively anymore. It's "hold a spot for a half second so the QB can throw to a spot or hand off to an inside gap" instead of "fire off and initiate contact, drive guys back to open a hole". OL are playing in this goofy two point stance and the QB is already at throwing depth, so guys don't need to know how to backpeddle from a three point stance into pass protection, and they never develop that initial chest punch against pass rushers. Guys don't effectively use their hands anymore, it's just shielding defenders away. You've got guys making 1st Team All (insert Power 5 conference) at C/G/T who have zero grasp of fundamentals of blocking at the Pro level.

Any school that runs a pro style offense (Stanford, USC, Wisconsin, Iowa) might be the last known spots where good OL can be found. Rest of the landscape might have some great athletes... but poor OL.

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36 minutes ago, MookieMonstah said:

The refs thing is so easy to fix too. Just pay them a large salary and make them full time employees year round. Have them train in the off-season and go through simulations or whatever. It's not easy to be great at your job when you literally take a 7 month hiatus from it.

It's almost unbelievable that this ISN'T the case. 

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