It's because the NFL and the NFLPA agreed upon the pussification of it's product at the expense of player safety, profits and higher pay.

The most physically demanding unit in this sport, with the heaviest, strongest and freakiest of all athlete's is only allowed maybe 10 - 15 padded, full contact practices yearly now.

In conjunction with one less preseason game to work on chemistry, and even less snaps for starting units because you have to ensure the back half of your roster gets enough playing time for film study so difficult roster decisions can be made.

Think about it. You have a group of five guys that are well over 6 feet and 300 pounds on average being tasked to pivot, strike, punch, back pedal, bull forward, side swipe, swim, rip, jolt and jab probably well over 50 snaps per game.

Some guys will get what I am about to say next. Some won't. Pre exhaust sets. Not warm up sets. Pre exhaust sets. You need these in weight lifting, power lifting and body building to break the body down physically, as well as shocking your nervous system so it can become less static and more revved up and ready to go reflex and muscle memory wise to handle actual working sets and higher volume at that.

These guys don't get that anymore. It's as simple as that. That's why more bodily injuries are up while concussions are down as far as frequencies go. That's why through two weeks this year the rushing numbers for QBs is up by roughly 200-300 yards from last year's first two weeks. That's why guys like Lamar and Tua shed weight in the off season to get even faster.

Because they knew they would have to move to make plays in today's NFL. All the good QB's do it. You have to move to make plays now. Look at Kyler. Look at C.J. The game has already evolved to make up for this glaring weakness across the NFL.

Hence, why I keep saying in our Jaguars forum why they need to get Lawrence moving in and out of the pocket by design. His best NFL throws, if you look at his highlights, the grand majority of them are outside the pocket and on the move.

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