Panthers safety Nick Scott sees a parallel with how long it took clubs to discard biases about Black QBs.
The most black position is the CB specifically because it’s the least cerebral. They also didn’t “discard biases” they simply rewrote the rules to overwhelmingly favor running QBs and aggressive play calls. The game is egregiously dumber at the nfl level than 5 years ago let alone 10.
I'd love to see how they'd rewrite the rules to favor people who are simply worse at strategizing football. It's theoretically possible, but the magnitude of irrationality and match fixing it would take to make it work would immediately destroy the NFL. They're already on thin ice, if not fracturing thin ice, with the ref fixing around the Chiefs.
IIRC the NFL has already argued successfully that they are an entertainment organization, not a meritorious sports league, but the vast majority of people do not know this.
They pass less because turnover risk is higher, the majority of playcalling today is attempting to draw penalties and run the ball because the defense is kneecapped to the point it’s almost redundant to have them on the field at all.
Sad but true. The amount of underthrown deep balls that result in PI because the receiver is trying to come back to the ball is hard to watch. NFL, like everything else, was peak in the 90s.
The most black position is the CB specifically because it’s the least cerebral. They also didn’t “discard biases” they simply rewrote the rules to overwhelmingly favor running QBs and aggressive play calls. The game is egregiously dumber at the nfl level than 5 years ago let alone 10.
I'd love to see how they'd rewrite the rules to favor people who are simply worse at strategizing football. It's theoretically possible, but the magnitude of irrationality and match fixing it would take to make it work would immediately destroy the NFL. They're already on thin ice, if not fracturing thin ice, with the ref fixing around the Chiefs.
IIRC the NFL has already argued successfully that they are an entertainment organization, not a meritorious sports league, but the vast majority of people do not know this.
What's interesting about the increase in black QBs is passing yards have decreased the last couple of years
They pass less because turnover risk is higher, the majority of playcalling today is attempting to draw penalties and run the ball because the defense is kneecapped to the point it’s almost redundant to have them on the field at all.
Sad but true. The amount of underthrown deep balls that result in PI because the receiver is trying to come back to the ball is hard to watch. NFL, like everything else, was peak in the 90s.
I would even say the early-mid 2000s as the last dying gasps. The Goodell legacy is the biggest travesty any professional sports league has seen.
I think college rpo schemes have influenced the pros a bit as well.
RPO was a rule change by the ncaa which the nfl adopted too allowing linemen downfield 3 yards without a flag, it’s always about babying the offense.