Connor Orr: How Will Rams-Chiefs Impact the Future of the NFL?

[26CornerBlitz]

How Will Rams-Chiefs Impact the Future of the NFL?

Monday night's game between the Rams and Chiefs marked a pivotal moment for the NFL. As a result, expect many teams to make major changes this offseason.

 

 

When something operates at the pace of an AAU basketball game between tireless children, there may not have been enough stoppage time to recognize the strength and direction of the undercurrent surging beneath. Football, after years of being chopped up, hacked into pieces, broken down and frantically welded together, was officially remade on Monday night. And it’s never going back.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

let's all hope he's wrong.

 

Because that's the kind of product I want no part of. It's OK to score. It's NOT ok to allow the other guy to score like that.

 

[Royale with Cheese]

9 minutes ago, Joe in Winslow said:

let's all hope he's wrong.

 

Because that's the kind of product I want no part of. It's OK to score. It's NOT ok to allow the other guy to score like that.

 

 

I’d rather have a good offense with a good defense than a great offense and below average defense.  More balanced is better sustainable for success IMO.

[CommonCents]

6 minutes ago, Joe in Winslow said:

let's all hope he's wrong.

 

Because that's the kind of product I want no part of. It's OK to score. It's NOT ok to allow the other guy to score like that.

 

Right. Games like that can be fun as a once a year thing. When we watch a game like that you get the feeling that the last team with the ball wins.

 

I get enough of that from the NBA. It makes the first 3 quarters of the game less interesting. If that was the norm I’d probably just watch the Bills games and not much else. I don’t find guys running wide open and catching passes interesting. 

[BarleyNY]

It’s exactly what the NFL wants to become. I’d bet money that Roger Goodell climaxed several times during that game. 

[26CornerBlitz]

We did have both defenses make plays last night that were a big part of the story. 

[BarleyNY]

1 minute ago, 26CornerBlitz said:

We did have both defenses make plays last night that were a big part of the story. 

 

Those are the kinds of defenses the league wants - ones that allow a lot of exciting plays and scoring but also make impactful, exciting plays. 

[TallskiWallski83]

Everyone is going bonkers over last night's game and I don't understand it. Yes, big plays and scoring are exciting but it waters down the product. How am I supposed to get excited over a 60 yard bomb when it seems to happen every drive? What makes football exciting to me is the build up to a big play, a back and forth chess match between offense and defense. Where each yard on offense is earned, not given. Where big time players rise up to the occasion and make a spectacular play to win their team the game. Last night's game was just a back and forth scorefest that ended with a anticlimactic ending. Defense means nothing and everyone scores at will, the team that loses is the team that gets the ball last without enough time on the clock. It's just a random way to end a game and I don't understand why people enjoy it. Im 31 years old and I sound like a grandpa here, but this new age football just doesn't do it for me. 

[Jobot]

Missed the game, but after I saw the final score, I had ZERO remorse for not being able to watch it.  Welcome to Arena Football I guess... we all knew this was eventually coming.

[Mr. WEO]

15 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

I’d rather have a good offense with a good defense than a great offense and below average defense.  More balanced is better sustainable for success IMO.

 

 

KC is proving that's not the case.

 

Anyway, all this pearl clutching over this game already? 

[dpberr]

IMO, the game illustrates the "Brandon Spikes" problem that plagues the modern NFL defensive schemes.  They are all (including Wade Phillips) concocting defenses for an NFL that's on its way out.  I was surprised at how easily gashed the Wade Phillips defense was last night, personally.    

 

Last night was essentially the Maginot Line versus German armor in World War II.  A defense brilliantly designed for combat of the past up against the combat of the future.

 

The defensive mindset has to adapt to what you saw on your televisions last night.  No more linebackers.  No more zone coverage.  No more lining up your four pass rushers on the line of scrimmage.   Somebody will come up with something radical to countermeasure.  

[Royale with Cheese]

1 minute ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

 

KC is proving that's not the case.

 

Anyway, all this pearl clutching over this game already? 

 

How so?

[Real McClappy]

Games like last night is why I don't watch college ball.

[CommonCents]

I’m still sticking by my story, some NFL execs sat around watching Big 12 football and thought it would be a great idea for their own product. 

 

Would anyone like this as the norm? Maybe we need a poll. I’m interested in what that would look like.

Edited November 20, 2018 by Commonsense

[RalphWilson'sNewWar]

In Buffalo...you’ve watched the Bills for basically these reasons.

 

- Fear of them moving

- Nostalgia/Born into you

- Beer/Friends Party

 

very rarely is the reason to watch and/or go to the game for Quality Exicting Entertainment. It’s more Obligation to go because when you were 7 your dad took you to your first game and yeah we all have that story.

 

but game like last night.  Are the type or games that actually justify you to go that aren’t related to some deeply ingrained Social Regional responsibility of being a WNYer.

 

And frankly I am disappointed to see Bills fans want to poo poo the MNF Game and its implications for the future.

 

the Bills as a whole have been a garbage franchise.  BUT there bright spot, historic spot in the history of the NFL was when they ran the K Gun.  A no huddle attack.

 

the K Gun.

 

let me ask...what the defenses historic nickname?  

[HappyDays]

People don't want college scores to become the norm in the NFL, no matter how hard they try to make it happen.

[Jay_Fixit]

One of those games a year is fine, but it’s not the kind of football I enjoy watching.

 

Gimme 31-28 over that show last night.

[jahnyc]

One thing that is a significant change are the weather conditions that teams play in.  With more domed stadiums, it seems that weather, at times the great equalizer, is becoming less of a factor.  Poor weather conditions, particularly cold and snow, typically had more of a negative impact on offenses than defenses, and we are seeing fewer games being played in these conditions.

 

The Bills defense has played well this year, but thank goodness we did not have to play the Saints, the Chiefs, the Steelers or the Rams.

[thenorthremembers]

8 minutes ago, Commonsense said:

I’m still sticking by my story, some NFL execs sat around watching Big 12 football and thought it would be a great idea for their own product. 

 

Would anyone like this as the norm? Maybe we need a poll. I’m interested in what that would look like.

You're 100% correct.  Last night was a college football game.

 

Personally feel like it waters down the product.   With the salary cap it will lead to more superstar two year NBA type teams.  Which means you will have 2-3 teams with a legitimate shot and 17 weeks of football where 29 other teams are just going through the motions.

 

Honestly, why bother rushing the passer at this point?  You may as well just draft all corners and safeties with speed, drop 10 and put a spy on the QB. 

Edited November 20, 2018 by thenorthremembers

[Like A Mofo]

Let's just say it: If the Bills were 54-51 winners last night, most of you haters would be LOVING this