Bobsyouruncle
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Athletes will always get bigger and faster but professionalization is a real factor. Before television money many guys could make more money working a regular job than playing. Guys would get drafted and choose not to play. The effect is the top athletes still were paid good money but the mid-level was hollow. That’s why top athletes were playing multiple positions. The players who should play those positions were working better paying jobs.50 years from now, with 36 teams and 14 playoff teams and more international athletes coming to NFL as global popularity increases and genetic and legal supplementation enhancement produces even bigger and faster athletes, someone sitting on their armchair will use the exact same statement to belittle Brady’s accomplishments.
I can imagine comments in 2070 be like “Only these old farts in their 70s 80s keep raving about this Brady guy from 2000s. Noone else has seen him play. Saw some old videos and he runs like molasses. Doesn’t hold a candle in running speed to even the 30th ranked QB today. And he played in the pass happy era and yet he was surpassed in career passing stats within a decade. And now he’s not even top 20 career passing yards. Why is this guy even being considered for top 5?”
That’s really not a future change. Getting an NFL slot is like hitting the lotto, from the bottom to the top it’s the most lucrative paycheck any of them will ever get. Virtually nobody that can play, chooses not to play today.