Offenses evolved to score more points. Defenses haven't evolved to stop them.

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Offenses evolved to score more points

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You should inform Hugh Freeze. His offense hasn't been scoring many points.

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You should inform Hugh Freeze

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9 wins > 7 wins

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The team on offense completely dictates the game and there is nothing the defense can do about it.

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They have weeks to prepare for it sometimes. Like your defensive coordinator did for us. Others love to bitch about it though.

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Your QB sucking arse has nothing to do with the defense controlling the offense.

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It was more than that and you know it.

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By dictate I mean the offense completely controls how fast or slow the game is.

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So the defense should be able to slow the game down and substitute however fast they want to before the offense can run their play?

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Combine that with the fact that there are about twice as many rules protecting the offense than the defense and you get what the game of football is turning into today.

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So the offenses found ways to exploit the defenses. So they should shut it down?

Cool. Those 30 points got you one win. We still had 9 wins to your 7 and with a tougher schedule.

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So the offenses found ways to exploit the defenses. So they should shut it down?

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Offenses are babied and have many inherent advantages over the defense. The fact that the ref can't even step in to let everyone get set before a play just adds to it. Instead of empowering officials to control the pace of the game for the sake of fairness, they're being told to get out of the offense's way and just let em go. How do you expect defenses to do anything with the deck stacked against them?

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Offenses are babied and have many inherent advantages over the defense. The fact that the ref can't even step in to let everyone get set before a play just adds to it. Instead of empowering officials to control the pace of the game for the sake of fairness, they're being told to get out of the offense's way and just let em go. How do you expect defenses to do anything with the deck stacked against them?

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Have subs ready to go at all times just like the offense does. Once a play is over, get them in and out as quick as possible just like the offense does.

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Have subs ready to go at all times just like the offense does. Once a play is over, get them in and out as quick as possible just like the offense does.

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This is stupid. If you played football you'd know that offense is proactive while defense is reactive. There are personnel matchups you play. The offense is calling the shots, so there's no possibly way for the defense to be able to recognize every change and expect to have everything ready to go at the same time as the offense. Couple that with the fact that the offense can sub freely while the defense can only sub when it's even possible and it's just not even close to a level playing field.

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This is stupid. If you played football you'd know that offense is proactive while defense is reactive.

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I did play football and that's how we dealt with it. We had a base defense we would get in every week whenever we were playing someone who ran the HUNH and we would stay in it. If adjustments needed to be made, we did it during timeouts, when the offense was on the field or at halftime.

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Couple that with the fact that the offense can sub freely while the defense can only sub when it's even possible and it's just not even close to a level playing field.

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The offense and defense can only sub between plays.

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The rulebook of football is slanted to give offense the advantage. Has nothing to do with coming up with ways to stop it. The team on offense completely dictates the game and there is nothing the defense can do about it.

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I agree with this.