<![CDATA[Today's NFL - is it just me ?]]>I watched some bits and pieces of a few Pre-Season games last night and one primary thought came to me :

Damn, there are going to be a LOT of Defensive penalty flags being thrown this year.

This new rule change is really neutering the DB's, they're sissifying the game and turning it into a modified version a Volley Ball.

Yeah, I understand they're doing this to open up the Passing game - what are they looking for, Basketball game type scores?

Some of the best games I've watched are good Defensive battles, now they essentially don't allow you to even touch the Receivers - really going to change things.

How about the Extra Point being kicked from the 15 now (yeah, this is a test just for Pre-Season)?

What about going for Two Points, have they done away this, since from the 15 it's going to be pretty darn rare?

Maybe I'm just getting too old, but a lot of these changes don't just seem right.

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@miktoxic said:

why they have to tinker and try to fix something that isn't broken has always been confusing to me whether it be football or anything else.

i mean mcdonalds had the best french fries and they had to fuckin change them cuz people's hearts were exploding? c'mon man.

The difference is,at least in this area, McDonalds' had the good sense to correct theirmistake & get rid of the flavorless oil. Fries are great again. Goodell doesn't seem like the type to admit he screwed up, so the owners just need to fire his ass.

Mike

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/424340https://brownsboard.com/post/424340Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:26:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Today's NFL - is it just me ? on Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:16:20 GMT]]>Hate to admit it, but it's an extremely flawed game and way too subject to what a ref sees or doesn't see, and how they interpret that.

Every year you see a play where a holding penalty gets called, and one of the announcers makes some comment about how a holding penalty could be called on virtually every play.

There's just too much to keep track of and too much room for error.

And replay can't fix everything. You're still trying to see where a ball is within a mass of humanity, except it's a mass of humanity in slow motion.

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VesnaKociper said:

It's a double edged sword. Fans want winners, fans want excitement, and to sell tickets these guys have taken more and more drugs. The collisions are huge and so are the lawsuits. It is not going to get any better and football they way it was played even in 1990 is not going to come back.

Many of the rules allow receivers to run less encumbered than before, which means more high speed crashes. Despite the hitting rules, guys will get hurt, and hurt badly... then more rules, more lawsuits will apply. If you think the game will ever get better, or return to a more recognizable form, you are kidding yourself.

Possibly true.

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@kvoethe said:

Every ex brown turns into a hall of famer

Name one that played after 1970?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/424215https://brownsboard.com/post/424215Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:37:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Today's NFL - is it just me ? on Sun, 10 Aug 2014 02:28:20 GMT]]>They might as well let the recievers run with no defenders.... Flags every time

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@browns149 said:

except Tim Couch, Willie Green, Charlie Frye, Courtney Brown,

And let's not forget about the GREATEST QB EVER Brady Quinn

Let's be honest, Couch probably deserves a hall of fame nod just for taking a beating most players in the 40's would've considered excessive.

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@kvoethe said:

Every ex brown turns into a hall of famer

except Tim Couch, Willie Green, Charlie Frye, Courtney Brown,

And let's not forget about the GREATEST QB EVER Brady Quinn

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@miktoxic said:

why they have to tinker and try to fix something that isn't broken has always been confusing to me whether it be football or anything else.

i mean mcdonalds had the best french fries and they had to fuckin change them cuz people's hearts were exploding? c'mon man.

I can't tell if that's a subtle shot at the NFL for not doing more about concussions or a legit opinion but I laughed regardless.

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@comeonman said:

Why do mediocre QBs (especially ours) look so much better in preseason I wonder. Are the opposing defenses just not playing hard?

Yeah, they're playing against generic Defenses.

Teams don't want to show too much of what they're going to do during the regular Season, so they pretty much play a generic Defense - primarily to have a base line for evaluating players for cuts.

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@jafbf said:

Yeah, he had like a 150 QBR.

I liked McCoy though, never thought he had the talent around him to fairly evaluate him though.

Why do mediocre QBs (especially ours) look so much better in preseason I wonder. Are the opposing defenses just not playing hard?]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/423720https://brownsboard.com/post/423720Sat, 09 Aug 2014 01:17:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Today's NFL - is it just me ? on Sat, 09 Aug 2014 01:15:28 GMT]]>

@miktoxic said:

why they have to tinker and try to fix something that isn't broken has always been confusing to me whether it be football or anything else.

i mean mcdonalds had the best french fries and they had to fuckin change them cuz people's hearts were exploding? c'mon man.

My thoughts exactly. The changes they continue to make are for the worse]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/423719https://brownsboard.com/post/423719Sat, 09 Aug 2014 01:15:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Today's NFL - is it just me ? on Fri, 08 Aug 2014 23:19:50 GMT]]>

@miktoxic said:

and mccoy looked like an all-star for the skins last night..........not kidding.

Yeah, he had like a 150 QBR.

I liked McCoy though, never thought he had the talent around him to fairly evaluate him though.

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@miktoxic said:

cowboys need a new coaching staff.

As per the Pre-Season norm, Weeden looked decent in the game.

Still think we should have kept him as our 3rd/4th string QB, definitely seems like he'd be better than what we've got at the position currently.

'Course there's the new "play like a Brown" mentality - which likely he doesn't have anyway . . .

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/423692https://brownsboard.com/post/423692Fri, 08 Aug 2014 22:13:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Today's NFL - is it just me ? on Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:54:44 GMT]]>cowboys need a new coaching staff.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/423681https://brownsboard.com/post/423681Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:54:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Today's NFL - is it just me ? on Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:30:38 GMT]]>Not the best place to put but there's something I wanted to say about the NFL. Did anyone else see how the redzone is now advertised? The preseason Ravens 49ers game had a gigantic Verizon logo stuck right in the entire redzone.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/423664https://brownsboard.com/post/423664Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:30:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Today's NFL - is it just me ? on Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:01:52 GMT]]>Well, jeez, if we go by the attitude of FIFA and these soccer suckers, then we should be changing the rules to make defense be predominate because, after all, 0-0 ties are just so darn exciting.

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@cambridgeho said:

Those penalties will slow the game down to a crawl. Its still going to be onesided during the game though.I know Haden and Skrine use that little jersey pull a lot.

Yeah, that's something else I was thinking, and may well validate what StocktonShorts saying about them easing up on the call as the Season progresses.

The big problem is that it'll probably get heavily enforced at the worst possible time . . . looking at the N.E. game last year.

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]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/423617https://brownsboard.com/post/423617Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:11:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Today's NFL - is it just me ? on Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:33:10 GMT]]>Usually when they're trying to enforce some kind of rule change they will over emphasize it during the preseason and throw flags constantly, and then by mid season it's pretty much back to how it used to be. They just want the players to not use their hands on each other down the field on a pass.

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@jafbf said:

Not that it happens a lot, but what if they want to run a fake?

Pretty much wipes that play out for the most part.

lol... not to mention the bobbled snap.

Just what I thought they were doing these first two games... could be wrong...

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/423590https://brownsboard.com/post/423590Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:28:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Today's NFL - is it just me ? on Fri, 08 Aug 2014 14:17:40 GMT]]>If you watched any of the Denver/Seahawks game, you saw 2 QB's with crap arms be effective. Today's QB has to have more talent between his ears then in his arm. Partly rules and partly the evolution of the game. The running game will evolve eventually, but right now it's a set up tool.

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i mean mcdonalds had the best french fries and they had to fuckin change them cuz people's hearts were exploding? c'mon man.

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