We’ve heard it from the under 25 crowd: This is NOT your father’s NFL. This is passing game now, and you need a top QB to win in the NFL.
Sounds like 1999 when the Greatest Show on Turf was stopped by the
Bucs. As Tampa Bay Bucs fans, we should know better!
Yes new rules help the passing game, but not as much as they did in 1978 when the NFL added two extra games to the season, and created PASS INTERFERENCE. Before ’78 it was a WR job to get open, a DB could tackle a WR. It created the era of Jim Kelly, Dan Marino, Joe Montana and other Greats.
Today its said the run is dead, as is defense. These fans would love to see games played to a 55-49 final. Not me, I’ll take defense, and the Seattle Seahakws put an end to all that nonsense last year when they beat the greatest offense the NFL has ever seen statistically.
And they did it with Russel Wilson, the 16th ranked QB in 2013.
Year before that, the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl with Joe Flacco 14th ranked QB in 2012.
Ben Rothelesberger: 14th ranked QB in 2008, but that was then. The last two SuperBowls were played in the “New Era” of the NFL.
Its been shown over and over again..defense wins championships, back then, and now. If you play dominant defense, and can run the ball, you keep the other QB on the bench, where he cannot do any damage to you. Aaron Rogers, Drew Brees, all of them are worthless sitting on pine.
It’s true the days of safeties like Steve Atwater and John Lynch and Ronnie Lott are long gone. The Bucs picked up Dashon Goldson for his intimidating talents across the middle. The NFL took that away.
So what? The modern safety needs to be a sure tackler, thats all. Instead of a John Lynch, you need more of a Ronde Barber. The best part is, it will happen all over again, and it will happen right here in Tampa Bay. A dominant defense, Bucs fans can be proud of.
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