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?
You just miss Russell
You probably have to post this to Twitter first and then link to it to avoid having it taken down.
It’s the commercials. They feel more numerous this year, especially the sports gambling ones.
Scoring has been down this year, and while officiating has never been great, I honestly think the biggest culprit is the hard cap. Teams will cut players who are better and know schemes in favour of cheaper draft picks/free agents because they have to. Teams must pay their stars (and they 100% deserve it), but the rank-and-file get churned out like butter.
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.
Biggest issue is poor O Line play
Every year people say reffing is worse than it’s ever been and say there are more injuries than there’s ever been. It’s just the NFL
I didn’t really feel this way until the early slate of redzone this week. I had a ton of fun with the thanksgiving day games but this Sunday felt lackluster
I’ll see you on Sunday.
The officiating had been very very biased and awful and obvious at times. That is not even mentioning commercials
So much bad coaching this season.
Seeing my team get to 6-5 after starting 1-5 has felt pretty magical to me.
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.
See for me it’s all the goddamn commercials and gambling talk.
you are not alone
the nfl has been spreading its product too thin. profit over players. poor play is inevitable. they try to mitigate this with rules to protect the players, but all we get is inconsistent reffing that nobody likes. there’s a leadership vacuum with Goodell, who’s all about the owners and the greed that’s ruining the sport