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re: How would the best football teams from decades ago do today?
Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:16 pm to UFFan
Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:16 pm to UFFan
The quality of player might not be as good across the board. I mean guys like Peyton Manning and Charles Woodson are gonna make bad teams good no matter what decade. However good coaches then would do fine today with the talent. Young Phillip Fulmer, Steve Spurrier, and Tom Osborne are going to be competitive no matter what decade. Sure Spurrier and Fulmer faded as they got older, but those two guys young and energetic are gonna win just as much as they did then now.
And teams like the early 90s cowboys would win no matter what time just like early brady teams. Sometimes good is just good no matter what
And teams like the early 90s cowboys would win no matter what time just like early brady teams. Sometimes good is just good no matter what
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Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:21 pm to NoMercy
That’s a lot of words. In 95 you’d have to type it up on a computer and use a dial up modem to post it. I’m posting from a more powerful computer I pulled out of my pocket.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:23 pm to JayAg
Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:25 pm to UFFan
One thing the 90s had an advantage in was players came in as freshmen, many walkons, and stayed though their eligibility. They were able to build a base and develop players that would fit the system and played hard together for the team and program. Nebraska benefited heavily from walkons…
That’s gone now, but saying these players couldn’t compete with players today is not realistic imo.
The biggest problem would be for the 90s players would be that most of the defense would be ejected for targeting in the first quarter. They use to get helmet stickers for big hits.
That’s gone now, but saying these players couldn’t compete with players today is not realistic imo.
The biggest problem would be for the 90s players would be that most of the defense would be ejected for targeting in the first quarter. They use to get helmet stickers for big hits.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:28 pm to geoag58
Beat the living shite out of todays teams physically.
They play their rules and todays teams play their rules it would be ugly
La tech threw for almost a thousand yards against Nebraska back then but Nebraska ran for a million.
Only one team could handle Les miles physical teams even late into the 2016 and they might be the best program ever just happened to be at that time.
They play their rules and todays teams play their rules it would be ugly
La tech threw for almost a thousand yards against Nebraska back then but Nebraska ran for a million.
Only one team could handle Les miles physical teams even late into the 2016 and they might be the best program ever just happened to be at that time.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:35 pm to TriStateAreaFootball
You’re retarded. So you’re telling me the Derrick Thomas’s and the Archie Manning teams of then couldn’t stack up against the teams of today? Maybe not consistently or the top cream of the crop but make no mistake, players were meaner and tougher back then and could play ball.
Thats like saying Pistol Pete or Dr. J or Wilt couldn’t score in the NBA or even Nolan Ryan would get HR hit off him by Judge. GTFOH Razotrash
Thats like saying Pistol Pete or Dr. J or Wilt couldn’t score in the NBA or even Nolan Ryan would get HR hit off him by Judge. GTFOH Razotrash
Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:44 pm to TriStateAreaFootball
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Well for one, blocking a run and throwing a forward pass would have been deemed illegal (Because it should be).
Isn’t that rugby?
Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:45 pm to UFFan
Put a team from 2025 back in 1975 with their rules and I think the '25 guys would be on the sideline bleeding and scared to go back in the game.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:59 pm to TexasWranglers
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95 Nebraska can nkot schematically adjust in game or have prior knowledge of how current teams operate
That is literally the scenario that OP was asking for.
"If they just lined up and played today? How would it go?"
Nebraska's roster (being built to stop 22 personnel Big-8 teams) seeing a spread offense would be sucking wind under the pace of play and the collective team speed of a modern P-4 offense.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 9:01 pm to Poker_hog
So human beings have evolved on a parabolic level like technology since the 90s? You think people are thousands of times faster, stronger, smarter, etc in a mere 30 years that the scrubs of today can ravage to cream of the crop of that time. Seems to be the argument.
That’s not how biological evolution works.
We still mostly live off stuff from all those devoid dumb people from far gone galaxies according to you that cannot compete with us. We have not moved past great minds of the past while being so vastly superior. How is that. Why are we still bound by the laws of physics discovered by such primitive idiots? Surely we have evolved past their simple ways and can teleport billions of light years away and all kinds of stuff by now.
What does computing power, healthcare changes, etc have to do with two teams playing a theoretical game that they would have to play at the same time for it to occur? Your comparisons to such things are ridiculous for this argument.
That’s not how biological evolution works.
We still mostly live off stuff from all those devoid dumb people from far gone galaxies according to you that cannot compete with us. We have not moved past great minds of the past while being so vastly superior. How is that. Why are we still bound by the laws of physics discovered by such primitive idiots? Surely we have evolved past their simple ways and can teleport billions of light years away and all kinds of stuff by now.
What does computing power, healthcare changes, etc have to do with two teams playing a theoretical game that they would have to play at the same time for it to occur? Your comparisons to such things are ridiculous for this argument.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 9:01 pm to bamameister
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We don't have better genetics, which frankly, would be impossible.
Uhh hold on there. First off, great points above. But second, I don’t know, it seems like more and more pro athletes have parents who were both notable athletes. So you could say there’s a eugenics element in play, to a greater or lesser degree.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 9:03 pm to RTRnFlorida
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Archie Manning teams of then couldn’t stack up against the teams of today?
Archie Manning's 1968 Ole Miss team didn't have one offensive lineman over 225 pounds.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 9:21 pm to TriStateAreaFootball
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Archie Manning's 1968 Ole Miss team didn't have one offensive lineman over 225 pounds.
Jerry Jones was an offensive lineman on our 1964 championship team and he weighed 150 pounds…haha. Something to be said for heart, teamwork and desire for sure…
Posted on 5/1/25 at 12:12 am to UFFan
I'm old enough to remember the old 'Pony Express' days of SMU and you're not going to convince me that today's defenses are going to have any more luck trying to stop Eric Dickerson and the lot than the teams of that era.
Outside of the simple idea that today's coaches would know how to stop an option offense and the coaches of 1982 would have to be taught how to stop, say, a modern spread offense I'd absolutely believe there are teams that after 1980 would do just fine against the top teams from today.
Outside of the simple idea that today's coaches would know how to stop an option offense and the coaches of 1982 would have to be taught how to stop, say, a modern spread offense I'd absolutely believe there are teams that after 1980 would do just fine against the top teams from today.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 12:20 am to Poker_hog
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That’s a lot of words. In 95 you’d have to type it up on a computer and use a dial up modem to post it. I’m posting from a more powerful computer I pulled out of my pocket.
That doesn’t change the person who pulled it out of their pocket. Just because technology advances doesn’t mean that the human species does.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 1:01 am to UFFan
It depends what rules they play by. If they're playing by today's rules that accentuate passing, obviously today's teams would win, but not by a rout. If playing by the older run centric rules, the older teams should win assuming they use their rosters from that timeframe.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 2:53 am to Tigershine
We had players like Dante Hall on offense. It wasn’t like that era was lacking fast WRs/return specialist either. The TE play was probably more elite too.
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Posted on 5/1/25 at 4:55 am to TriStateAreaFootball
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Nebraska's roster (being built to stop 22 personnel Big-8 teams) seeing a spread offense would be sucking wind under the pace of play and the collective team speed of a modern P-4 offense.
You realize Nebraska destroyed Spurrier's spread offense in '95 don't you? Spurrier often ran 4 and 5 WRs. It didn't matter they still got killed
Posted on 5/1/25 at 5:54 am to Poker_hog
Sorry, you're high or dumb. Or both.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 5:55 am to UFFan
95 nebraska would not punt in today's game. That defense argument goes both ways.
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