Two tech questions about 53

[Steve102]

No, it makes perfect sense. You just have to approach it from the proper perspective.

For instance, Peyton Manning's legacy is about putting up incredible individual stats while maintaining a losing playoff record, including all-time marks for most playoff losses and most one-and-dones. If he's your QB gold standard, then winning tarnishes that legacy. Aaron Rodgers' legacy is about being the Most Talented Quarterback to ever have fewer career playoff victories than Joe Flacco. Etc.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

Football question for anybody who knows: what's the underlying logic for the offense formation strict rules listed above?

So the defense can determine who the eligible receivers are. I think that there was a lot of opposition to passing taking over football and being too hard to defend, so limitations on allowable formations, linemen being downfield, and player numbers were established.

Every play, the defense can look at the line and say "Okay, eligible receivers are the two guys who are lined up on either end of the line of scrimmage, plus the guys who are lined up OFF the line of scrimmage, period. That's who we need to cover."

The only complication is that linemen have numbers that make them inherently ineligible as receivers, unless they report to an official. Waddle coming in as tight end, for example, must report, and THEN he can legally line up on the end of the line of scrimmage and and even catch a pass, like Solder did for a touchdown in the deflategate AFCCG.

The new rule based on Harbaugh's whining is that a player with an eligible receiver's number cannot declare himself ineligible and be aligned as an offensive lineman. Which is silly and only developed to keep idiots like Harbaugh from having to think and from teaching his idiot players to think.

Coaches go over all of this stuff in junior high football. Harbaugh wasn't confused, he just wanted to whine. The NFL strangely accommodated him.

 

[FreeCourtroomBrady]

I really hope you replied to your coworkers with this:

 

[chris_in_sunnyvale]

There's a story about a BYU game decades ago where the opponent's D dropped all 11 guys in coverage in an attempt to stop Jim McMahon from lighting them up as he did everyone. Instead of complaining that this was cheating like the OP's colleagues would, the punky QB still lit them up.

New and unseen doesn't always equal game-winning strategy, let alone "illegal edge ".

Regards,
Chris

 

[Hammer of Thor]

So the defense can determine who the eligible receivers are. I think that there was a lot of opposition to passing taking over football and being too hard to defend, so limitations on allowable formations, linemen being downfield, and player numbers were established.

Every play, the defense can look at the line and say "Okay, eligible receivers are the two guys who are lined up on either end of the line of scrimmage, plus the guys who are lined up OFF the line of scrimmage, period. That's who we need to cover."

The only complication is that linemen have numbers that make them inherently ineligible as receivers, unless they report to an official. Waddle coming in as tight end, for example, must report, and THEN he can legally line up on the end of the line of scrimmage and and even catch a pass, like Solder did for a touchdown in the deflategate AFCCG.

The new rule based on Harbaugh's whining is that a player with an eligible receiver's number cannot declare himself ineligible and be aligned as an offensive lineman. Which is silly and only developed to keep idiots like Harbaugh from having to think and from teaching his idiot players to think.

Coaches go over all of this stuff in junior high football. Harbaugh wasn't confused, he just wanted to whine. The NFL strangely accommodated him.

I think it’s more than just that. Look up the Flying Wedge. Putting enough men on the line of scrimmage (plus eliminating arm locking) prevented maiming and death that had been too frequent.