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"WaPo: Quarterbacks Gone Wild"

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Blogger Evil Sandmich said...

The system, which gives a passer a rating between zero and 158.3

I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but any stat with a range like that is probably not very meaningful.

It's also interesting that Tom Brady never seems to get a lot of respect for his ability because a lot of people think that he's just a good quarterback in a great system. This suspicion is somewhat confirmed by the experience of Matt Cassel and by the fact that Bill Belichick almost managed to drag the woeful Drew Bledsoe to the Super Bowl.

Great quarterbacks can make a team good, but only a great team can make a good quarterback great.

10/21/09, 5:59 AM

Anonymous OhioStater said...

I think the current generation was inspired by Peyton Manning, and his unstoppable no-huddle offense. Many of today's best were in school, or struggling when Peyton transformed the position in the NFL. You didn't see the audibles and hand-signals until Peyton came to the league.

10/21/09, 7:19 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The game has been wide open since the 2004 season, before which the league cracked down on clutching-and-grabbing tactics by defensive backs with a directive from the competition committee to officials to strictly enforce the rule prohibiting defensive contact against receivers more than five yards downfield...

The game changed immediately...

The sport's rules-makers always have considered a wide-open style of play attractive to fans.

"The ratings have been incredible," Colts owner Jim Irsay said last week at an NFL owners' meeting in Boston. "You really have to understand the sort of numbers we've been able to put up. That's been incredible and it shouldn't be understated"...


You mean changing the rules changes the nature of the game?

Gee - who'da thunk it?

It's almost as though changing the rules of the game tends to produce - wait, get this - an entirely new game altogether!

And changing the rules to increase television ratings?

Nah, no one would ever do that...

10/21/09, 7:19 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have tried watching american football many times, however for some reason it just hasnt gone into me. I did not grow up in America by the way.

There are alot of people who like this game and appreciate it, it does nothing for me. I would just like some advice on how to appreciate it. Should I concentrate on a particular aspect of it that will unlock the hidden beauty from my eyes.

I like soccer very much and i get enormous satisfaction when I see a good game. If a I see for example a very good goal that had some refined dribbling in it; that could turn a bad day into a good day.

Now is there a way to hook me up with this fotball thing. I feel like I am missing out.

10/21/09, 10:18 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I think the current generation was inspired by Peyton Manning, and his unstoppable no-huddle offense."

So why didn't Jim Kelly change the game with his equally impressive no-huddle offense?

Because he only had one season with a QB rating higher than 100. But he was a premier QB for his time.

10/21/09, 2:12 PM

Anonymous David Davenport said...

I like soccer very much and i get enormous satisfaction when I see a good game. If a I see for example a very good goal that had some refined dribbling in it; that could turn a bad day into a good day.

Soccer is an excellent game for women, girls, small boys, and foreigners.

10/21/09, 5:04 PM

Anonymous Reg Cæsar said...

The NFL can change things by winks and nudges as well as by overt rule changes. --SS

The sport's rules-makers always have considered a wide-open style of play attractive to fans.

"The ratings have been incredible..."


Well, hey... steroids are a "wink and a nudge", too. And they had the same effect on baseball.

People are always saying that baseball is boring, and "needs more scoring". Steroids gave it just that, and the "ratings" responded in kind. Otherwise, the sport would have kept bleeding fans to the more gripping spectacle of cricket, with its 600-run matches.

"The ratings have been incredible..." Colts owner Jim Irsay said...

Hey, isn't that the son of the guy who slipped the historic Colt franchise out of Baltimore in the middle of the night without a fare-thee-well? Gee, why not quote the Bidwells instead?

10/21/09, 7:36 PM

Anonymous Reg Cæsar said...

Soccer is an excellent game for women, girls, small boys, and foreigners. --David Davenport

And those groups have more stamina than do grown American men, especially grown American men whose ancestry is from a certain corner of a certain continent. Is that why soccer can do without the constant substitutions and "time outs" of football?

You know what else those socialist soccer nuts in England do? They demand that clubs build their own stadiums, at their own damned expense!

Football uses the good ol' American free-enterprise way of coer-- excuse me, persuading-- the citizens to raise the city sales tax to build a facility the team can rent for $1 a year, so it isn't forced to move reluctantly to Oklahoma City or Milwaukee or Sacramento.

Even worse, if your club has a bad year, the English kick it out of the league! And replace it with a club from another city! How is a poor beleaguered billionaire supposed to play one city council off another if they do that to him?

10/21/09, 7:49 PM

Blogger Truth said...

"Now is there a way to hook me up with this fotball thing. I feel like I am missing out."

Get some buddies together and play sometime on the weekend.

10/21/09, 8:10 PM

Blogger John Seiler said...

As Marshall McLuhan might have put it, it may be that the league unconsciously has adjusted the game for the big, flat-screen TVs most guys watch nowadays, making it easy to highlight one player, the QB. The experience is much different -- more "hot" in McL's terms -- than the "cool," small, usually black-and-white TVs of the Jim Brown-Lombardi 1960s.

10/21/09, 9:19 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ratings are up because more people are at home doing nothing. Isn't attendance down?

10/21/09, 11:34 PM

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