(12-30-2019, 01:01 AM)jaguarmvp Wrote:

(12-30-2019, 12:54 AM)nate Wrote: I wonder if we are really letting sink in that Gardner just threw more TD's in a season then Mark ever did.

In like 13 games.  Don't give me that "different era crap" either.

Gardner threw the ball 460 times this year.  Mark had years with 557, 435, 441, 512, 473, ....

Gardner isn't throwing to Jimmy and Keenan, with Fred at running back, with  a seriously talented  Oline.

Yea but the defense's are much more handicapped today.  You don't remember the days of Darius coming across the middle and just laying somebody out?  Today's game it's a flag every time.  The defense could be much more physical back in those days

This is a ridiculous and flat out wrong way to look at this.  The logic falls in its face.  

Darius WAS fined and SUSPENDED for that one hit.  Not sure he even appealed it.  

We all want to act like it is such a new age, but the reality is it is just another ebb and flow of the NFL.  The rules have shifted, but not so much from 2000 to now as it was from 1979 to 1999.  

I believe the last 2 years you have seen an attempt by many teams to shift to a more balanced format.   The Ravens, the Pats, the Saints (to the least extent in this list) the Tacks, the Clots, the Bills, the 49ers—even the Pack, and Seahawks with elite QBs all have shifted to basically being RUN focused.  
 
Incidentally, I don’t think this regime tried to go the way of the dinosaur but rather tried to be at the front of this wave, but TCs impersonal way of dealing with things went a long way from fostering a team mentality and made a “us against them” mentality.  

Regardless, this notion of it being such a different age is garbage, and really falls apart when you look at what Gardner has to work with in comparison to 8 back in the day when evidently leather helmets were all the rage.

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