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?

  • Jephte@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You probably have to post this to Twitter first and then link to it to avoid having it taken down.

  • strafefire@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s the commercials. They feel more numerous this year, especially the sports gambling ones.

  • pastelsonly@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • fponee@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • PCP_Panda@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Sports betting and nfl sponsored betting advertising makes the novel concept of games getting rigged seem more plausible

  • ovondansuchi@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • Rapidceltic@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • athrowawayiguesslol@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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

  • rupiefied@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.