Football was meant to be played indoors?

[sportscurmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Defensewins

Thank you CooleyFanOV, I have been saying the exact same thing for years on this sight. Godell and the NFL owners listen to fans that know nothing about football, suffer from ADD and do not understand the game fully. You have seen them, they talk and talk at a football party, barely pay attention and complain the the game is boring because there is not enough scoring. Then a team scores and they cheer because that is all they understand as good in a football game.
The subtle beauty in football like defense, running game, battle in the trenches, balanced attack. A one on one battle between lineman or LB vs. Rb is lost to them.
The NFL is quickly becoming flag football where throwing the ball is almost on every down. Sad.

The cold winter weather late in the season and in the playoffs is the only thing that is helping to keep some offenses balanced. The rules should be set NOT by a popularity contest or TV ratings. The majority of fans do not understand football fully.
The players should have a bigger say in setting the rules, not some out of touch owner or coach that has never played the game.

I was with you until the last statement.

The NFL Competition Committee - - the one that has the most say in terms of rules and rules interpretations - - is a much better procedural way to analyze the rules of the game and to adjust the rules of the game as compared to players.

Joe Gibbs and Mike Shanahan (just to keep this close to home) never "played the game" at the NFL level. Would you rather have them be part of a rule-changing process or would you rather it be Chad Ochocinco, Albert Haynesworth and JaMarcus Russell?

[Defensewins]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

I was with you until the last statement.

The NFL Competition Committee - - the one that has the most say in terms of rules and rules interpretations - - is a much better procedural way to analyze the rules of the game and to adjust the rules of the game as compared to players.

Joe Gibbs and Mike Shanahan (just to keep this close to home) never "played the game" at the NFL level. Would you rather have them be part of a rule-changing process or would you rather it be Chad Ochocinco, Albert Haynesworth and JaMarcus Russell?

SC, let me explain. I am not say disolve the Rules Committee, just remove a few owner/coaches and add a few players to the mix. The reason I feel this way is owners and to a certain extent the coaches will sometimes make rule changes to protect certain position players over others. They treat it too much like a business and make some decisions based on business, ratings and money. Not always what is best for the game or the players. The best example of this is all of the over board rules to protect Qb's, WR and offensive players, but the same rules do not apply to the brethren on the defensive side of the ball. If these rules are REALLY about protecting all the players they would be on both sides. But these rules were really past so famous QB's and WR's not lose games and thus not lose TV ratings.
Lets not kid ourselves, if a defensive lineman goes down to a dirty play of an offensive lineman nobody in the TV world really cares. For example the chop block and various forms of holding are tolerated in order to protect their bread and butter golden boys.
Our OLB Brian Orakpo was held at least a half a dozen times in every game where it was not called. But by contrast you innocently bump a QB after he throws or the Qb ducks to avoid a sack and the defensive players hands accidently touches his helmet and it called nearly 99% of the time.
Of course only a few smart well respected players should be allowed on the rules committee along with the select coaches. Not the thug morons players. There are a few players on each team with quality college degrees and are capable of higher reasoning that can do as good a job any coach or owner. You are selling the player short due some bad apples. There have been some coaches who are idiots too. Tom Cable comes to mind.

[MTK]

I'm calling off the dogs, this thread is obviously going nowhere.