(09-11-2023, 09:48 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(09-11-2023, 09:14 AM)Mikey Wrote: I don't consider guys launching themselves into contact or diving at ankles "good" defense. I find head hunting or flexing after blasting a guy into semi-consciousness rather unseemly. Not sure if that makes me soft.

Big hits will happen, yes, but another part of the game in the past was actual sets of pads. I think a big difference between then and now is not only the amount of padding, but the speed that padding or lack thereof allowed for contact. Go back and look at the pads that DBs/Safeties wore in the 80s to what they wear today - I think Motocross riders wear more padding than today's DBs and WRs.

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