I don't. I liked the league when a 300 yard passing game really was something. This Arena Ball crap isn't entertaining to me. It seems like if your team doesn't score a TD on every possession, you're probably gonna get beat. QBs are throwing for over 400 yards and losing. In a couple of years the scores are going to be 67-63. I don't even know if you can waste high picks on defense anymore because you can't touch a receiver or a QB. I think the league has gone so overboard with the rules trying to get more offense that it's turning into the NBA.
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I concur.
Me too FWIW.
I'll jump right on that bandwagon. I saw a couple times yesterday where a safety was hesitant in delivering the pain on a crossing route - and we know why. I think Donte Whitner was spot on with his "the NFL just wants to let receivers catch TDs".
Move over on the bandwagon. I fear the NFL is looking more and more like the college game. Lombardi would not like what the game is becoming, and neither do I.
I can only hope it's cyclical.
It's only going to keep getting worse. The sort of fairweather, half-interested fans that the NFL is desperate to bring in (still lots of people out there who don't care about pro football, even in this country) are far more likely to be mesmerized by the high scoring, passing-oriented offenses. The amount of yards and points allowed by defenses that are now considered to be elite would only be at the edge of the top 10 in the late 90s. I don't know when the breaking point of when I stop watching will come, but I have little doubt that it will come.