• wanderingfins44@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Tom Brady can fuck right off. He said it’s the offensive players responsibilities to get away from defensive players, when he got more protection from refs than any qb ive ever seen. If Ben, the mannings, Romo or anyone else got the protection Brady had they may not have gotten beaten up as bad as they had.

    The audacity of this motherfucker is astounding.

  • IBroughtMySoapbox@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Defensive players just keep getting bigger and faster, some of the edge rushers in today’s game are just downright scary and if we let these guys tee off on quarterbacks like they did in the “old days” there are going to be a lot of quarterbacks on the shelf and we have recently seen how bad the league is when a lot of top quarterbacks are hurt. And all of these people saying that they’re not allowed to hit in football anymore apparently don’t watch the offensive line

  • nevets4433@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    A lot of the rules and the “soft” stuff stemmed from rules put in place to protect him in particular!!!

  • BroncosHK40@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Modern football sucks honestly. My fear is it’s going to keep getting worse until it’s some weird variation of flag football.

  • Rapidceltic@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Football quality will likely continue to drop as youth enrollment continues to decline.

  • DickNDiaz@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    The main thing I got from this article is that Florio has finally accepted that Tom Brady is retired. It’s like Kari Lake accepting that she lost.

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    10 months ago

    “All the rules I repeatedly and loudly took advantage of should be taken away!”

  • ObscureFact@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Brady: Defensive players should be allowed to hit and tackle like how Ray Lewis did it.

    Florio: BrAdY iS aN oLd MaN yELlInG aT tHe ClOuDs

  • H2Oloo-Sunset@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Sure fire sign that someone is getting old; they start complaining that things were better in their day.

    I seem to recall a lot of pre-2000 quarterbacks complaining about how easy Tom Brady has it with all the new “protect the quarterback” rules.

  • Holiday_Extent_5811@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Football did have a golden age there for a while. They had to legislate a lot out of the game for safety reasons and it’s opened up a lot of the passing game, and much of it in a boring way.

    The game is worse imo from an entertainment standpoint than that aughts period, but I still love football because it’s all about strategy still, but I miss how football used to be, sue me. But points aren’t inherently more exciting unless scoring is really low (like I love soccer but I get how people don’t like a sport unless they truly understand it if there isn’t more scores). Football has 9 or 10 scores a game.

    The NBA suffers the same imo. I liked the game a lot more in the 90s and honestly thought the product was awful until the Warriors came along.