Tom Brady says he thinks there is "a lot of mediocrity in today's NFL" and that the "product in my opinion is less than what it's been."
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he’s kinda not wrong? Offensive scoring is down. Elite AFC teams are playing mediocre(Bills and Bengals).
Wow. I rolled my eyes on this one going in - but he makes some points - and some points that some around here have made since the LOB made the NFL neuter the D side of the ball!
""I look at a lot of players like Ray Lewis and Rodney Harrison and Ronnie Lott and guys that impacted the game in a certain way -- and every hit they would have made would have been a penalty," Brady said. "You hear coaches complaining about their own player being tackled and not necessarily -- why don't they talk to their player about how to protect himself? ... We used to work on the fundamentals of those things all the time. Now they're trying to be regulated all the time."
I do think of this when I look at our draft picks - Spoon aside, of course
""So as they get delivered to the NFL, they may be athletic, but they don't have much of the skills developed to be a professional. When I played at Michigan, I essentially played at a college program that was very similar to a pro environment. When I see these different players come in, they're not quite as prepared as they were, and I think the game has shown that over the last 12 to 13 years. I think things have slipped a little bit.""
I hate Brady. But he has a point. And, I think it's hilarious that the 'performance metric' for how well the NFL is 'doing' is the average scoring.