I don't disagree with this, but obviously improvements on our end can be made inside these ridiculous parameters.
Can be and must be made - You are exactly right. It doesn't matter that football is being turned into a dance show to the polls and standings.
I'm sorry, but this is rhetoric.
His description is a bit extreme presently. But the game is moving in the direction he's describing. The defense has been handcuffed and left very, very few options to defend.
Not sure how we got from "being turned into a dance show" to "pure arena football across the board" but I agree, rhetoric was involved.
I still think your point is valid. The game has drastically changed in a very short time. It was just five years ago that the Urban Meyer spread option was the craze. Within that time and now we have seen offenses morph into a hyper speed mode AND running some form of the spread option. Which has rendered a MAJOR, MAJOR change in the game.
Didn't this happen also when Spurrier arrived at Florida? I remember dreading that triple stacked wide receiver formation. It seems to me many were worried that the end of defense was upon us and football had changed. It cycles back and forth. I just don't like the pendulum swinging so far toward a situation where the offense becomes the Harlem Globetrotters and the defense is the Washington Generals. ... rhetoric and hyperbole advisory
Auburn looked worse yet improved from game to game. That's the difference. There's nothing wrong with looking "off" in the first game of the season. Especially seeing what we lost on the OL. But by game eight and nine there should be significant development from game one.
And there was, BB. But then we fell off. Only the coaches and players know why.
Agree completely. No one forces anyone to play collegiate or professional football. If you want to, yes their are risks involved. You are also very generously rewarded at both levels for playing. Free college tuition for 4 years which in a lot of cases is over $100k, or in the NFL paid thousands and/or millions.
