We're Gonna Air The Ball Out This Year (Finally)

Ray Finkle

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Peyton Manthing hasn't had a functional arm in 5 years. 3 seasons ago he broke all sorts of passing records by throwing to open spots, no power behind his throws, and playing against these freak athletes.
 

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My memory is that our starting nose tackle in the mid-1960s weighed less than 200 pounds. One of you web jockeys should look it up.
 

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Peyton Manthing hasn't had a functional arm in 5 years. 3 seasons ago he broke all sorts of passing records by throwing to open spots, no power behind his throws, and playing against these freak athletes.
Peyton Manning had no arm??? Wow I never liked the guy either but he has had one of the better arms in the league. Not to mention some of the best WR's when he was at Indy.....sorry fail.
 

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Peyton Manning had no arm??? Wow I never liked the guy either but he has had one of the better arms in the league. Not to mention some of the best WR's when he was at Indy.....sorry fail.
I just, I just.... Uggggghhhhhh...

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I guess CFB players just decided to stop growing in 1996 despite doing so for oh,....lets say the last 70 years.
http://www.thefootballeducator.com/increasing-size-college-football-players/
http://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-50s-tim-tebow-would-have-been-an-offensive-lineman-2011-10
I guess none of these guys went to college....
Since you are apparently too lazy to click on a link, I'll just paste a picture of the relevant timeframe.
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You could cherry pick some start and stop dates to make a false argument, but the reality is that there hasn't been any change over the last 20 years.
 

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Peyton Manthing hasn't had a functional arm in 5 years. 3 seasons ago he broke all sorts of passing records by throwing to open spots, no power behind his throws, and playing against these freak athletes.

No doubt about it. His arm strength was failing the last few year and this is spot on.
 

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I guess CFB players just decided to stop growing in 1996 despite doing so for oh,....lets say the last 70 years.
http://www.thefootballeducator.com/increasing-size-college-football-players/
http://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-50s-tim-tebow-would-have-been-an-offensive-lineman-2011-10
I guess none of these guys went to college....

Still no massive change from 1996 to 2016... still waiting on real evidence for your argument. No one is arguing the last 40 or 70 years. But you still haven't proven YOUR argument over the last 20.... so please provide data that the size and speed is so much greater in the last 20 years. You keep on pushing back your argument first the 72 dolphins, 40 years, or Tebow would have been a linemen in the 50s.

I'm sure you will come up with another blanket statement and no data to prove your statement other than in the 1920's the athletes were not as big.
 

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If this stupid argument between Dougie and Crete continues I'm going to toss this into the dungeon.
 

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Peyton Manning had no arm??? Wow I never liked the guy either but he has had one of the better arms in the league. Not to mention some of the best WR's when he was at Indy.....sorry fail.

Hang on 3 years ago Peyton Manning was in Indianapolis.... what? Do you even watch football?

http://www.nfl.com/player/peytonmanning/2501863/profile

Do you actually think about the $hit that you type, or just start typing and go that sounds great!
 

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Since you are apparently too lazy to click on a link, I'll just paste a picture of the relevant timeframe.
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You could cherry pick some start and stop dates to make a false argument, but the reality is that there hasn't been any change over the last 20 years.
As I've stated before the age of the speed rusher has clearly effected the OL/DE comparison because of the athletes playing those positions, OT's and DE's,make up 40 percent of those position groups, right? This supports my original argument that there is much more stress place on the QB in todays game. The interior lineman are bigger still. The TE position is also morphing into 2 groups since they are more heavily involved into the passing game and less emphasis on the traditional blocking TE. Again it's part of the evolution of the game over the last 10-15 years. We've already stated that while RB's may only be a smidge heavier thlus a shorter more heavily muscled back that is quicker would usually be considered harder to tackle and more elusive....Also in the pro game RB's are a dime a dozen over the last 8-10 years as passing become a priority, which has NO influence on the college game....How many team in the mid 90's had backs like Fournette, Henry the 260#er at Arky and our new back? Nowadays it's pretty common for teams to have 240-250#er's in their backfield.
 

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