I can’t quite put my finger on it, maybe I am legitimately just getting tired of watching football.
Between the constant, game-changing flags and injuries every other play, the NFL is losing its magic.
I can’t be the only one who feels this way. Am I alone here?
The officiating had been very very biased and awful and obvious at times. That is not even mentioning commercials
See for me it’s all the goddamn commercials and gambling talk.
OL are worse than ever and DL/DE are getting paid more than ever so the discrepancy worsens as the best line talent plays defense so offenses suffer. We’re transitioning into a new era of QBs and there are a ton of bad ones now. Because of these, offenses are ass.
Biggest issue is poor O Line play
There’s a natural ebb and flow to league-wide talent and skill, and we’re at a lower point right now.
The NFL dealt with the same thing from the late 90s to early 2000s, and from the late 70s to the early 80s. You could also make the case the the late 80s to early 90s was bad too due to extremely lopsided accumulation of talent on the NFC side.
The biggest thing I’m seeing right now overall is poor O-Line play, and QBs that weren’t properly trained in college, likely having to do with the pervasiveness of the spread offense and subsequent talent disparities between most teams.
It’s the commercials. They feel more numerous this year, especially the sports gambling ones.
Refs have been horrible, killing enjoyment.
You just miss Russell
Sports betting and nfl sponsored betting advertising makes the novel concept of games getting rigged seem more plausible
What’s up Tom!
I’ll see you on Sunday.
I can put my finger on it. PI and defensive holdings call are way, way down. Receivers are getting mugged.
What makes it worse is the refs will let it go all game but still call a couple ticky tack calls at random.
God forbid defenses have a good season for once
The only people that think it’s bad are people that hate defense and are only excited by touchdowns and shoot outs.
Lots of games this year have come down to a final scoring drive.
Some of you guys won’t be happy until they just take out all other aspects of the game except letting two people play pitch and catch and score points.
I’m enjoying it just the same as always. The notion that things are worse than before always comes up with a lot of things. I’m not so sure it’s true in many cases.