NFL manipulating rules to increase scoring

[NAS]

37 minutes ago, Ricky Spanish said:

Shortened offseason has lead to sloppier defenses in general. 

If you go all offseason not even being able to touch anyone due to social distance restrictions, then immediately need to start hitting people, there's going to be curve before you settle in. 

Same thing happened in 2011 after the lockout. Defenses were sloppy, then got better as the year went on.

I'm not buying that it would result in such a drastic difference.  Why would offenses not be just as sloppy as a result of having fewer reps together, etc?

[Ricky Spanish]

37 minutes ago, NAS said:

I'm not buying that it would result in such a drastic difference.  Why would offenses not be just as sloppy as a result of having fewer reps together, etc?

Defense is a more cohesive thing. You need to gel with the people around you to know when to pass guys off into zones, figure out how they move, etc. It's much harder to react than to actually attack. Offenses know what they are doing, what the play is, where the route is going, etc. The defenses have to react to that, and there's a learning curve to process the information a bit faster. 

I really do believe it is related to the strange offseason because the exact same thing happened in 2011. Offensive explosion at the beginning of the year, then defenses settled down, and ppg and everything dropped. 

OK just ran some numbers:

2010 PPG throughout the ENTIRE year: 22.075

2011: PPG through the first 3 games of the year: 24.064

2011 PPG throughout the ENTIRE year: 22.11875

2019 PPG throughout the ENTIRE year: 22.703

2020 PPG throughout the first 3 games of the year: 25.478

For a control year:

2014 PPG Throughout the entire year: 22.48125

2015 PPG through the first three games of the year: 23.38438

2015 PPG Throughout the entire year: 22.60625

As you can see, there was a significant jump in PPG in seasons in which a weird/shortened offseason occurred and a general increase in PPG at the beginning of each season regardless as teams get back into the swing of things. Eventually, it all kind of evens out. 

[SmokinwithWilly]

The NFL is losing money, figuratively speaking. The political stances have turned a lot of people off to the game. Add in Covid 19 and empty stands, lost advertising and the NFL needs to find a way to draw people back in. High scoring games, lots of offense, fast paced action. 

The NFL is going to do what it has to do to make money. If it needs to throw a game here and there or bend the rules, so be it. This is just one more time. 

[kungfoodude]

3 hours ago, Waldo said:

Each week they should be calling more offensive holding calls at this point. It's week 4, either the olinemen are ready or they suck and shouldn't get the extra help. They need to start rolling this back to normalish.

Yeah, we don't want this change. You are gonna trade our young DL being effective for Teddy Bridgewater being in traction.

[Waldo]

14 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Yeah, we don't want this change. You are gonna trade our young DL being effective for Teddy Bridgewater being in traction.

So we think we are fine and don't help fix it in the offseason? This is a great year to suck it up and get a comprehensive list of what we have and need. If Teddy is the sacrifice for that then I would say he is very well compensated for that and he did sign that contract and is taking the money. I want to win games because we won it and not because of gifts and BS.

It's time for the NFL to start adjusting to real rules and calls and take the brakes off. Maybe a 3 or 4 week window to get to completely by the rules?

[onmyown]

3 hours ago, BrianS said:

This is one of the reasons we as Americans haven't really embraced world football - soccer to us.  It's a very subtle and defensive game where the margins between being a good team and an average one are quite small.  We can't comprehend how a 2-0 or 3-0 win was "dominant".

Dunno I just think it’s boring, and scoring or wins isn’t a factor for me. A 10-3 NFL game to me is usually very exciting. In fact scoring points once in two hours is more exciting to me.

I have watched hundreds of NFL games and have only been legitimately bored maybe a couple of times.

Basketball I’ll be bored maybe 30% of the time.

Baseball and hockey half and half.

Soccer is almost 100% of the time.

In my opinion I think Soccer is a very social sport, for 90% of the game casual people can talk and interact, not much going on. 

[Carl Spackler]

5 hours ago, NAS said:

It used to mean something for a QB to pass for 300 yards, now any JAG can do it.

Ain’t that the damn truth. 400 yards was a rare milestone. Now it’s “hey, good game man”.

Some of that is because of the league pushing offense, offense, offense (which is great when we have the ball!) and some of it is quarterbacks have become more accurate through the years. 

[Carl Spackler]

1 hour ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

The political stances have turned a lot of people off to the game. 

That always amuses me because rampant pro-military displays in the NFL and NASCAR, plus republicans actively sponsoring cars for years, didn’t turn off that many people. Put the shoe on the other foot, however, and the true snowflakes begin to fall. 

[SmokinwithWilly]

33 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

That always amuses me because rampant pro-military displays in the NFL and NASCAR, plus republicans actively sponsoring cars for years, didn’t turn off that many people. Put the shoe on the other foot, however, and the true snowflakes begin to fall. 

It's not whether or not its Republicans or Democrats. People watch sports as a means to unwind and relax and forget about everything else going on. When it is being constantly blasted in their faces, they change the channel. I have friends and family on both sides who stopped watching because of it.

[Shotgun]

10 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

It's not whether or not its Republicans or Democrats. People watch sports as a means to unwind and relax and forget about everything else going on. When it is being constantly blasted in their faces, they change the channel. I have friends and family on both sides who stopped watching because of it.

When fans are more put off by the protesting of racial injustice than police officers lynching minorities, we have a real problem as a country. I say good riddance to all those fans.  

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36 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

It's not whether or not its Republicans or Democrats. People watch sports as a means to unwind and relax and forget about everything else going on. When it is being constantly blasted in their faces, they change the channel. I have friends and family on both sides who stopped watching because of it.

Then we should do it without national anthems, flags, police and military displays.  Problem solved. 

[Fox007]

It's nonsense and unnecessary. The world sport is very low scoring and you don't have to have high scores to keep the attention of people....uh at least I certainly hope Americans aren't the only ones who need artificially high numbers in order to appreciate something. Literally the rest of the world doesn't so that'd be something. But honestly I think it's just the NFL leadership and perhaps a few networks being out of touch and incompetent.

I mean they had a chance to take eSports and have a large piece of that pie and those boomers flubbed that. Korea has had a self sufficient video game presence on their network TV for 20 years and they are obviously much smaller. Boomer networks just allowed online to have it all which shows where their heads are at.

[SmokinwithWilly]

5 hours ago, Shotgun said:

When fans are more put off by the protesting of racial injustice than police officers lynching minorities, we have a real problem as a country. I say good riddance to all those fans.  

You may say good riddance. The NFL doesn't give a poo. It's about one thing. Money. The NFL didnt do anything until it became a national movement. And the NFL will only stay involved as long as it's beneficial for them to do so. Only one thing matters and that's the bottom line. Their actions have spoken louder than words ever could.

[TheSpecialJuan]

NFL starting to look a lot like College Football, not a good thing