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Across the league, and against our D. Here's are the reasons I've seen noted:
1. Defenses are behind the offenses because of the shortened camp time.
2. Offenses are getting better every year at taking advantage of the rules that limit what defenses can do off the line of scrimmage.
3. Receivers continue to get bigger AND more athletic at the same time, while DB's size and athletic capability isn't changing as rapidly.
4. The spread offense has been fully integrated with the no huddle, exhausting defenses through pacing and limited substitutions.
5. An era of really good QB's.
6. ??
I'm sure the answer is some combination of things, but what's your view of which ones and how they are weighted?
I'll say this - I've been watching pro football for forty years and am struck by how the highly athletic, improbable catch seems to happen routinely now. Guys are snagging balls a dozen times a game that used to be one-or-two a game highlights. What Edwards, and especially Jackson, have done in the past two weeks would happen across the league maybe twice a year.
1. Defenses are behind the offenses because of the shortened camp time.
2. Offenses are getting better every year at taking advantage of the rules that limit what defenses can do off the line of scrimmage.
3. Receivers continue to get bigger AND more athletic at the same time, while DB's size and athletic capability isn't changing as rapidly.
4. The spread offense has been fully integrated with the no huddle, exhausting defenses through pacing and limited substitutions.
5. An era of really good QB's.
6. ??
I'm sure the answer is some combination of things, but what's your view of which ones and how they are weighted?
I'll say this - I've been watching pro football for forty years and am struck by how the highly athletic, improbable catch seems to happen routinely now. Guys are snagging balls a dozen times a game that used to be one-or-two a game highlights. What Edwards, and especially Jackson, have done in the past two weeks would happen across the league maybe twice a year.