08-21-2021, 05:52 PM
(08-21-2021, 05:04 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: I disagree. Maybe in terms of coverage, but QB protections didn’t start coming in until later in the 2000s.
https://youtu.be/M4OTH0pddv4
Brady was nearly decapitated there and nobody batted an eye. That’d be a flag now, but it was normal back then. Early 2000’s football was still very physical and full of heavy hits. The league was still very physical with QBs until Palmer and Brady both tore their ACLs. Rule changes started coming into play more then.
You're free to disagree, but you're wrong. Here's a list of *some* of the biggest rule changes that protected QBs over the last 25 years. Montana benefitted from only one of these rule changes, and that was only for his last 2 years.
Brady benefitted from all of these rules, and many of them were implemented either before he started playing, or just a few years into his career.
https://www.insidehook.com/article/sports/nfl-rule-changes-created-golden-era-quarterback-stats
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
