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2022 Season: Things there have been more of (1 Viewer)
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FairWarning
Footballguy
More running even though the rules help the passing. The gaudy passing numbers really haven’t been there.
More 4th down attempts, in turn kickers stats seem to be going down as there are fewer FG attempts. Could be wrong, maybe it’s the games I’ve seen.
More 4th down attempts, in turn kickers stats seem to be going down as there are fewer FG attempts. Could be wrong, maybe it’s the games I’ve seen.
TampaMike19
Footballguy
The lack of pre-season has really made the starts of the season sluggish, sloppy, etc. Defenses are very fast now and O-lines are not able to contain them. The passing game has evolved to dink and dunk generally- get the small shifty guys open. Zone defense is dominant now.
Teams with an excellent running game should thrive this year. I can see RB salaries going up soon as long as teams decide to keep playing zone and prevent big plays. What they don't realize is that RB's can bleed clock and possessions, and your offense has to execute perfectly in order to counter good running games.
Overall, I think we're going backwards in terms of overall fantasy production. WR's just got paid top of market and they are good for doing that- I think the market will go down a little bit going forward if the NFL continues to play this way.
Also, big receivers are dying. If you're under 6 feet you have an excellent chance of being a WR1. There's really not a lot of tall WR's crushing it right now aside from maybe Mike Evans who basically will get the ball if you throw it to him. Brady trusts him.
Big data has basically ruined the game at times. It can't be all data.
Also, way too much fantasy knowledge out there for my liking. It's making average joes hold onto sleepers and keeping waiver wires bare. I may consider asking for roster size changes going forward so that waivers have a bit more supply out there but we'll see. Maybe 1 QB 2 RB 2 WR 2 Flex 1 IDP 1 K
Teams with an excellent running game should thrive this year. I can see RB salaries going up soon as long as teams decide to keep playing zone and prevent big plays. What they don't realize is that RB's can bleed clock and possessions, and your offense has to execute perfectly in order to counter good running games.
Overall, I think we're going backwards in terms of overall fantasy production. WR's just got paid top of market and they are good for doing that- I think the market will go down a little bit going forward if the NFL continues to play this way.
Also, big receivers are dying. If you're under 6 feet you have an excellent chance of being a WR1. There's really not a lot of tall WR's crushing it right now aside from maybe Mike Evans who basically will get the ball if you throw it to him. Brady trusts him.
Big data has basically ruined the game at times. It can't be all data.
Also, way too much fantasy knowledge out there for my liking. It's making average joes hold onto sleepers and keeping waiver wires bare. I may consider asking for roster size changes going forward so that waivers have a bit more supply out there but we'll see. Maybe 1 QB 2 RB 2 WR 2 Flex 1 IDP 1 K
TampaMike19
Footballguy
Also, is it me or is home field advantage kind of back? Maybe the COVID rules and shortened practices / prep rules made the playing field even but now it's the first unrestricted year and teams on the road seem to be flatter. Not saying everyone but generally.
SeniorVBDStudent
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Virtually unexplainable one-sided blowouts. Browns rush Bengals. Saints crush Raiders. Bears crush Patriots. Any given Sunday? Sure. But Team 1 not showing up at all, where Team 1 does not equal Lions, Texans, etc? Wayyyy more of that this year than in prior years.
Coaches giving up on marginal talent and reverting to Day 1 installs. Opposing teams having no difficulty overwhelming Day 1 install offenses.
More variance than I recall ever seeing. Welcome to the darkside of "parity" and CBA-arbitrated neutering of practice.
Coaches giving up on marginal talent and reverting to Day 1 installs. Opposing teams having no difficulty overwhelming Day 1 install offenses.
More variance than I recall ever seeing. Welcome to the darkside of "parity" and CBA-arbitrated neutering of practice.
TampaMike19
Footballguy
Good points. Basically talent discrepancy between all teams is razor thin and the star players plus good coaching / schemes are the difference makers. Problem is now that you can’t practice as much…makes the teams more even and unpredictable
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Wish they would clean up the DPI/OPI and just be clear. If you put your hands anywhere on the WR, even bracing yourself and acting like you are not interfering, automatic flag no questions asked. Same for the WR. You can rub not bump but you cannot put your hands on the opposing player while the ball is in the air, period. Both go up for it and crash into each other trying to make a play on the actual ball instead of each other, fine by me.
QBs with bad OL should be in the shotgun so they have a running start on the pass rush. Marino had the quickest release but he also lined up in the shotgun with a RB on one side and another RB/TE type on the other side of him to pick off any blitzing LBs while he worked the sidelines.
QBs with bad OL should be in the shotgun so they have a running start on the pass rush. Marino had the quickest release but he also lined up in the shotgun with a RB on one side and another RB/TE type on the other side of him to pick off any blitzing LBs while he worked the sidelines.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
To answer the title better...
-Terrible Horrible No Good Awful Wasteful Clock Management in the final 2:00 of both the 1st Half and end of game.
-If I have to hear one more time about a team trailing in the football game and worried about scoring too early...PLEASE!!! So many things can go wrong when you are still behind 27-23 with a couple minutes left around mid field and you watch the team slowly drain the clock, burn a timeout or two, NEVER take a shot at the end zone, just work it inside the 5 or 10 yd line so they can get one short of the goal line pass off so they can say they tried but just couldn't quite pull the game out and in the post game conference I want to hear the Coach and QB discuss that if they had scored there, too much time left and they would have lost the game so it was better for them if they just attempted to win.
Can we finally lose this in the booth? The fan base also buying into this as a wise way of working the clock and trying to win the game? We're always clutching rosary beads when a team takes the lead and there's still a little under a minute left on the clock, that's called a nail biter and it's good for ratings.
-Terrible Horrible No Good Awful Wasteful Clock Management in the final 2:00 of both the 1st Half and end of game.
-If I have to hear one more time about a team trailing in the football game and worried about scoring too early...PLEASE!!! So many things can go wrong when you are still behind 27-23 with a couple minutes left around mid field and you watch the team slowly drain the clock, burn a timeout or two, NEVER take a shot at the end zone, just work it inside the 5 or 10 yd line so they can get one short of the goal line pass off so they can say they tried but just couldn't quite pull the game out and in the post game conference I want to hear the Coach and QB discuss that if they had scored there, too much time left and they would have lost the game so it was better for them if they just attempted to win.
Can we finally lose this in the booth? The fan base also buying into this as a wise way of working the clock and trying to win the game? We're always clutching rosary beads when a team takes the lead and there's still a little under a minute left on the clock, that's called a nail biter and it's good for ratings.
jtd13
Footballguy
From my amateur perspective, it seems like DCs across the league are really attacking weaker OLs with simulated pressure as more of a staple of the defense. It seems like all the DCs got together and decided this is how they would counteract the influx in receiver talent and the rules making it harder to defend receivers. And the result is a bunch of offenses expected to be good are getting shut down at the line.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
More complaining. I'm complaining right now about the complaining.
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
The Athletic NFL podcast did a really good pod a week or 2 ago discussing basically this exact phenomenon. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...in-crisis-chiefs/id1528622068?i=1000583355918
Offenses like Shanahan's and others had thrived for several years by simplifying the defense identification at the line to basically just count how many defenders were where and then make a decision to counteract that. Now a lot of defenses are doing what you are saying, which messes up that quick identification and either causes the QB to pause or make a quick decision that he thinks will work but ends up being sub-optimal.
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