Both College Football and NFL have been pretty bad this year. The quality of football being played is the worst I can remember in either of them.
I don't think the college game his been nearly as bad as the NFL. The Georgia/Tennessee game had more excitement by itself than the NFL has had in it's entirety this season. I believe what others have said as well in that Fantasy Football has masked some issues that the NFL has had for years. Someone else mentioned that 3rd and long is pretty much a draw up the middle and punt. In the college game they will often go for the sticks here. The Texans games have been brutal.
Outside of Texans I can't think of a reason to care. And even then, I record and watch the games later so I can fast forward through the bullshit and/or Texans' stupid-shitty play. Today I turned off the Texans game in the 3rd quarter (after starting an hour late and fast forwarding through much of it) and was better for it. It's hard to justify sinking 3+ hours of my Sunday on the Texans or NFL in general.
These kinds of things are fun to say, but easy to refute as well. There have been 11 3rd-and-10-or-more's in this game so far. All 11 were pass plays. If anything, the pass-happy NFL is far more willing to go for it on 3rd and long than it ever has before.
Look at the teams in College. There's so many mediocre teams. One or two games don't really make up for the entire season thus far. There will always be a few exciting games. But this season as a whole has been terrible in college.
Quality in college has declined for sure, and that affects the pro level. No one wants to teach the QB position anymore. Just a bunch of spread offenses.
The one guy that I like that is showing some promise for a future 2018 or 2019 draft is Josh Rosen. I really think he has that Andrew Luck potential that Luck had when he was drafted. It'll be interesting to see how he progresses in his junior season next year.
I can kinda see that. He sure takes some stupid hits like Luck so far though, but hopefully he learns. He nearly got killed vs ASU.
Man, this Sunday SUCKED. NFL sucks, man. Y'all think the Texans suck? All the teams suck. Even the top tier teams have huge holes. Trash product right now.
The biggest problem is that there aren't enough good quarterbacks to go around for all 32 teams. Contraction needs to happen (see ya later Shahid Khan....) **** you high school and college football for all the spread offenses.
Some of the big elite players retiring early also helps in diminishing the product. You don't think Watt is sitting somewhere right now wondering if he should even pursue this anymore? Live a few cool years now to live a decade or more in pain and possibly dementia? Patrick Willis, Marshawn, Megatron just to name a few. The spread offenses and disperse athletes (not everyone is built like a freight train) in college do a good job at mitigating the blunt force trauma that exists in almost every NFL play. It's been unsustainable as long as it's been regulated. The problem is what's the point of playing college ball if the dream of playing in the NFL is no longer there?
Was gonna create a new thread. But there's enough talk of NFL slippage here. Numerous issues mentioned in article WHY ARE NFL RATINGS DOWN? THE LEAGUE’S GREED HAS FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO IT There’s been an endless amount of hand-wringing and finger pointing about the NFL’s 11% dip in TV ratings thus far this fall. It’s Colin Kaepernick’s fault. No, it’s because of the presidential election. Wait, maybe it’s live streaming. Or the Olympics. Or the progressive sports media. Or the lack of brand-name quarterbacks. Or Deflategate. Or CTE. Or Ray Rice. While some or all of these have obviously had an effect on viewership, no one wants to address the elephant in the room: The NFL’s on-field product just isn’t very good right now — and the root of the problem is the league’s never-ending greed. - - - - - - - As noted by The Ringer, the rookie salary scale instituted in 2011 is largely to blame for the lacking on-field product. Because NFL owners were tired of giving huge contracts to unproven rookies, players’ initial four-year contracts were drastically reduced. The idea at the time was that this would result in more money for veterans — but it hasn’t worked out that way. Instead, NFL teams have hoarded players on cheap contracts and shed veterans that cost exponentially more, continually dropping the league’s average age. “Let’s be honest, the younger the league, the less experienced the league is and with that, the quality of play doesn’t start off at the same level,” Packers head coach Mike McCarthy told The Ringer. “I think what you see, particularly in the early part of the season, is a reflection of that.” (MORE IN LINK) http://awfulannouncing.com/2016/why...eagues-greed-has-finally-caught-up-to-it.html
This doesn't make sense. There's a hard cap and almost all the teams are right up against it. That money is going to *someone*. If it's not to rookie contract players and not to older players, who's getting that money and why would teams spend it that way if that's not the most effective use of their money?
Watching Gameday Morning on NFL Network and they have done 3 segments on Kap in the last 20 minutes. Not blaming ratings on him but the minutiae of talking about everything same thing over and over, whether it's him, ODB's tirade earlier in the season, Brady's return, etc...is just excruciatingly boring. Then again, there isn't much, if anything, to talk about the games itself.
Maybe the NFL was going through a golden age when Peyton and Brady were constantly going at it. Now that it's gone they are suffering the hangover. Couple that with players not being able to express themselves, not celebrate, and barely take a stance on things, you have created a sterile league of football playing robots that need constant repair. Kevin Johnson is out for the year. When an NBA player is out for the year it's a pretty big deal. In the NFL you kind of expect it.
I felt that way in the late 90's early 2000's as well. Felt like the great QB's of years past where either past their prime or out of the league; and they weren't being replaced as quickly as they were leaving. I remember being pretty bored by that era of NFL football...though admittedly, I'm sure some of it was bias because my team had been ripped away from me.
That would make sense if a bunch of top QBs were gone. But it's just Peyton - all the other stars from 2-3 years ago are still there. Brady, Rodgers, Brees, Eli, Big Ben, etc. And the newer crop in Newton and Luck. Peyton being in the league can't have affected the ratings of all the other games he wasn't involved in.
