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<blockquote data-quote="Sunshinepacker" data-source="post: 508747" data-attributes="member: 9033"><p>The old adage is that offense sells tickets and defense wins championships. Well, the league doesn't really care who wins the title but it DOES care about selling tickets. I'm pretty sure the NFL could care less about making defenses less effective, they want high scoring games.</p><p> </p><p>The NFL does need to find ways to reduce the damage that players do to one another. Players are only getting bigger and stronger. Fun article I read compared current NFL players to offensive linemen by decade. In the 20's the average olineman was the size of Hackeem Nicks. By the 50's the avg olineman was the size of Tebow. In the 80's the avg olineman was the size of Shawne Merriman!</p><p> </p><p>Think about that, that means that in 30 years we've evolved to the point that offensive linemen are running around spearing wide receivers/TEs! I know the other players have also gotten larger but the internal organs and soft tissue hasn't gotten any stronger; and players are just getting bigger/stronger/faster. NFL players have said it and I agree, it's only a matter of time until someone is killed on the field; and I don't think that day is far off (maybe a decade?). The problem is only exacerbated because the NFL is prioritizing passing because they like scoring. When teams emphasize passing on offense it means that defenders need to be smaller but faster. When it comes to impact on the players' bodies the old law E=MC^2 comes into play, the key being that speed is squared; i.e., it hurts a lot more to get hit by the smaller and faster guy than it does to get hit by the slower but bigger guy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sunshinepacker, post: 508747, member: 9033"] The old adage is that offense sells tickets and defense wins championships. Well, the league doesn't really care who wins the title but it DOES care about selling tickets. I'm pretty sure the NFL could care less about making defenses less effective, they want high scoring games. The NFL does need to find ways to reduce the damage that players do to one another. Players are only getting bigger and stronger. Fun article I read compared current NFL players to offensive linemen by decade. In the 20's the average olineman was the size of Hackeem Nicks. By the 50's the avg olineman was the size of Tebow. In the 80's the avg olineman was the size of Shawne Merriman! Think about that, that means that in 30 years we've evolved to the point that offensive linemen are running around spearing wide receivers/TEs! I know the other players have also gotten larger but the internal organs and soft tissue hasn't gotten any stronger; and players are just getting bigger/stronger/faster. NFL players have said it and I agree, it's only a matter of time until someone is killed on the field; and I don't think that day is far off (maybe a decade?). The problem is only exacerbated because the NFL is prioritizing passing because they like scoring. When teams emphasize passing on offense it means that defenders need to be smaller but faster. When it comes to impact on the players' bodies the old law E=MC^2 comes into play, the key being that speed is squared; i.e., it hurts a lot more to get hit by the smaller and faster guy than it does to get hit by the slower but bigger guy. [/QUOTE]
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