Done with Daltin

[SunsetBengal]

(01-27-2019, 09:20 PM)Synric Wrote: And QBs from today who are bigger faster smarter with better arms could handle the beating from the 70s and 80s.

Like I've said the NFL is bigger faster and more complex today than back in the 70s early 80s.

Larry Little would not be in the HoF in todays NFL and he was arguably the best guard in football during that period.

It's all relative.  Do you not think that if Larry Little grew up in today's football era, that he wouldn't weigh 310?  It is interesting, as the NFL became infatuated with size in the 80's.  William Perry was a large man, by any stretch, but at around 330, he was the fattest man to ever play in the NFL.  Now, the trend is starting to head back to leaner, faster defenders, in an effort to keep up with the athletic, passing nature of today's game.  You're seeing this more with LBs and DEs than with DTs, but the trend is definitely leaner and faster, able to keep up if forced into coverage.