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re: Would Oklahoma's O with Bama's D beat the Cleveland browns?
Posted on 1/24/18 at 11:07 pm to nola000
Posted on 1/24/18 at 11:07 pm to nola000
You ever hear of the steel curtain?
The Steeler beat the All Star team by 7 points one year.
All Start teams had only a couple of weeks together to prepare, under coaches they didn’t even know. The teams they played were world championship teams that had played together for years.
As for the NFL players being “part time”, by the seventies, that was long past.
A top college team can have NFL Calibre talent at every starting position. In an avg year, certain teams have ten or more future FIRST ROUND draft picks their roster. You can’t find and NFL team where that is the case.
Point being this whole attitude that the shitiest NFL team could pick the score even the greatest college teams is crap. It’s just not reality.
On a given day, the browns could lose against a quality college team. There is no doubt.
Some of you younger people scoff at anything that happened prior to the year 2000 and idealize current NFL players as God’s.
Hell, I still haven’t seen a better guard than Hannah and he hung it up almost 40 years ago. Same goes for Butkus.
In fact, historically speaking, due to rules changes, players today are pussies in comparison. I’d like to see today’s recievers cope with being mugged all the way down the field.
The Steeler beat the All Star team by 7 points one year.
All Start teams had only a couple of weeks together to prepare, under coaches they didn’t even know. The teams they played were world championship teams that had played together for years.
As for the NFL players being “part time”, by the seventies, that was long past.
A top college team can have NFL Calibre talent at every starting position. In an avg year, certain teams have ten or more future FIRST ROUND draft picks their roster. You can’t find and NFL team where that is the case.
Point being this whole attitude that the shitiest NFL team could pick the score even the greatest college teams is crap. It’s just not reality.
On a given day, the browns could lose against a quality college team. There is no doubt.
Some of you younger people scoff at anything that happened prior to the year 2000 and idealize current NFL players as God’s.
Hell, I still haven’t seen a better guard than Hannah and he hung it up almost 40 years ago. Same goes for Butkus.
In fact, historically speaking, due to rules changes, players today are pussies in comparison. I’d like to see today’s recievers cope with being mugged all the way down the field.
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Posted on 1/25/18 at 7:39 am to River_City_Tider
So much wrongness in this post. NFL athletic training was in it infancy at this time. The money wasn't there to invest in staff and equipment. athletic science has become a multi billion dollar industry since then.
Fast forward to now. Any one NFL team makes more money by far than any college team out there. Hell the salary cap for the players is nearly three times what any college team makes in a season.
The point is the pro players jobs are to live, eat, and breath football. To the point where even great college players will wash out if they don't adopt this mentality. That is why the draft is a crapshoot.
That wasn't the case in 75. They didn't have to money or the knowledge to invest in increasing athletic performance oh but boy they do now.
College on the other hand are still STUDENT athletes. They still have to go to class and live the college lifestyle for a scholarship while working out when they can. On Wednesday at 10:00 am when say Baker Mayfield is in his 3rd history class. Drew brees has already gotten in his first workout with performance doctors imput. Watched a couple hours of game film, and is suiting up for practice.
NFL is a completely different animal than it was in 75
Fast forward to now. Any one NFL team makes more money by far than any college team out there. Hell the salary cap for the players is nearly three times what any college team makes in a season.
The point is the pro players jobs are to live, eat, and breath football. To the point where even great college players will wash out if they don't adopt this mentality. That is why the draft is a crapshoot.
That wasn't the case in 75. They didn't have to money or the knowledge to invest in increasing athletic performance oh but boy they do now.
College on the other hand are still STUDENT athletes. They still have to go to class and live the college lifestyle for a scholarship while working out when they can. On Wednesday at 10:00 am when say Baker Mayfield is in his 3rd history class. Drew brees has already gotten in his first workout with performance doctors imput. Watched a couple hours of game film, and is suiting up for practice.
NFL is a completely different animal than it was in 75
Posted on 1/26/18 at 7:18 pm to River_City_Tider
You are beyond stupid, and I’ve been watching football since the ‘70s.
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