* Quarterbacks are taking their cue from the poorly performing President Trump. Quarterbacks need guidance, and President Trump’s weak, wobbly actions have dejected and demoralized the football slingers. President Trump’s cheap stunt of 20 or 30 years ago, where he threw a decent spiral through a hole in a board for charity, while delightful and fun, is no match for inspiring quarterbacks now at this time.
President Trump is not performing like that descendant of Brigham Young who ran downfield without a helmet for extra yards. That is crazy, but extremely motivating for a team to see. President Trump is taking a knee with Nancy Pelosi on giving AMNESTY to illegal alien infiltrators.
President Trump is not methodically moving the team downfield like the Irish, Scandinavian player who married that Giraffe Bundtcake. President Trump is throwing weak ducks to his new pal Chuck Schumer in regards to giving AMNESTY to illegal alien invaders.
President Trump must once again show the guts and heart of candidate Trump who promised to deport illegal aliens, dramatically reduce legal immigration and build a wall on the border.
* Too much time spent in sensitivity workshops, diversity workshops, sexual harassment workshops, transsexual sensitivity workshops, etc.
Training time is finite. After these essential workshops are accounted for there simply isn’t enough time in the day to devote to football skills.
* A critical mass of effective people have withdrawn their psychic and emotional energy from the NFL causing a corresponding decline in on-field mojo.
* I think Seattle’s defensive style from their Super Bowl years made referees change the way they called pass interference and defensive holding. The Seahawks d-backs were borderline holding and/or interfering on every play, challenging the refs to throw a flag. You can’t call a penalty on every play or else the game would come to a stop, you’d lose your fan base and the NFL would collapse.
So referees started allowing d-backs to get away with more grabbing and manhandling of receivers, which makes it harder to succeed in the passing game. Fine by me because I think some of the pass interference calls from 5- 10 years back were ridiculuous.
As further evidence, I offer the change in the build of receivers. Receivers used to be skinny, fast guys. No need for any real strength because any contact by the defender would draw a flag. Now, as a reaction to the more aggressive d-back play allowed, receivers are all much stronger and taller in order to fight through contact and still catch the ball. Not to mention the rise of gigantic tight ends like Gronkowski that have become serious weapons for quarterbacks.
* When my son got talked into playing Madden a decade ago, even though he wasn’t an NFL spectator, he figured out to always pick Michael Vick as his quarterback and just have him run around with the ball. Much simpler…
* NFL HOF GM (Buffalo, Colts) Bill Pollian has commented on the decline of offensive play in general over the last couple of seasons to the latest league player’s contract that restricts preseason full practice in pads.
Pollian feels offensive line play is really poor for the first month of the season and Quarterback/Receiver timing/chemistry is likewise starting to decline as QBs feel pressure to get rid of ball more quickly. Also if teams are not practicing in pads then it is harder for receivers to master the route running skills.
Also maybe receivers need to learn that not everybody can “master” the one handed catch the ball like a Odell Beckham Jr or Chris Carter. It seems to me that receiver fundamentals are going to hell. I see fewer receivers making a classic bulls-eye or cone with their thumbs and index fingers with their eyes staring back at the QB through their hands.
Maybe that is why old school Huwhyte tight-ends like Gronk, Greg Oslen, Jason Whitten, or even a free agent like the Colts Jack Doyle still have a place in the league.
* After 4-5 years of Antifa activity in the St Louis area it seems that Antifa/BLM have built up a sizable infrastructure network in the area. That allows the Soros funded Antifa groups to bus in hundreds of white protesters from across the country and these folks all have places to stay for weeks at a time.
The DailyStormer has commented that during the day, protesters are largely white women who then turn things over to the mostly local blacks and the hardcore BLMers to work the night shift. I doubt the purple armpit haired twenty-something female trust-fund commies are staying in the ghetto.
On the other hand Unite the Right participants in Charlottesville had to stay in mostly private homes tens of miles away or sleep in their cars coming in from hundreds of miles away. Remember AirBnB canceled many on the Alt-Right group’s contracts and has boycotted them. But it seems that the Antifa were able to stay in town at many commercial establishments and even in dorms on campus.
Where are the out of town Antifa and BLMers staying in St Louis? On local college campuses in dorms? What hotels/motels are specifically catering to them? I think local taxpayers, business owners and consumers would like to and have a right to know.
* 21 comments and nobody adopted ESPN’s logic: Because Kaepernick.
Actually, the league’s collusive racist, bigoted, prejudiced, knee-jerk, craven, unimaginative, Trump-fueled, irrational, sexist, homophobic, short-sighted, retrograde failure to accept him is responsible not just for lower-quality QB play but declining performance across the board.
