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<blockquote data-quote="ilovetheoption" data-source="post: 825526" data-attributes="member: 1414"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">"Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>A public place.</strong></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The date was March 15, 1978. A Georgian was in the white house, the number one song in the land was Night Fever, by the Bee Gees, Jacqueline Bisset was on the cover of Vogue, and football was about to change forever. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The NFL had come to a decision, inspired by the peak of Steel Curtain dominance: Defense wins championships, but Offense sells, and the NFL is a business above all else. The game was about to get forever ****tier (note: the prior sentence represents the opinion of [USER=1414]@ilovetheoption[/USER] , who believes that tom brady is going to burn in hell for having weak knees, and enabling the creation of the targeting rule) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">On that day, the NFL released a series of rule changes designed purely to favor offense at the expense of defense that would revolutionize the game. Illegal contact downfield by defensive backs was made illegal. The penalty for intentional grounding was reduced. Passes no longer had to cross the line of scrimmage. The most impactful, though, was that offensive linemen were now able to A) Extend their arms, and B) Block with open hands. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Gone were the days of "Knuckles together and elbows out" blocking. Gone were the days where blockers were hitters. In that instant, "offensive holding" began its gradual decent into the joke of a penalty it is today, called only when the defender is tackled in a way that would make Dan Gable proud. The NFL chose offense over defense, and if you watch GT (or, really any football game at any level above "small high school"), you will see the result. </span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Pass blocking was, of course, revolutionized, but so was run blocking. Suddenly, the idea of sustaining a combo block was feasible in a way it was not in the past, and the result was the proliferation of the Zone Running scheme.</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ilovetheoption, post: 825526, member: 1414"] [FONT=Calibri]"Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March." [B]The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2[/B][/FONT] [B] [/B] [FONT=Calibri][B]A public place.[/B] The date was March 15, 1978. A Georgian was in the white house, the number one song in the land was Night Fever, by the Bee Gees, Jacqueline Bisset was on the cover of Vogue, and football was about to change forever. The NFL had come to a decision, inspired by the peak of Steel Curtain dominance: Defense wins championships, but Offense sells, and the NFL is a business above all else. The game was about to get forever ****tier (note: the prior sentence represents the opinion of [USER=1414]@ilovetheoption[/USER] , who believes that tom brady is going to burn in hell for having weak knees, and enabling the creation of the targeting rule) On that day, the NFL released a series of rule changes designed purely to favor offense at the expense of defense that would revolutionize the game. Illegal contact downfield by defensive backs was made illegal. The penalty for intentional grounding was reduced. Passes no longer had to cross the line of scrimmage. The most impactful, though, was that offensive linemen were now able to A) Extend their arms, and B) Block with open hands. Gone were the days of "Knuckles together and elbows out" blocking. Gone were the days where blockers were hitters. In that instant, "offensive holding" began its gradual decent into the joke of a penalty it is today, called only when the defender is tackled in a way that would make Dan Gable proud. The NFL chose offense over defense, and if you watch GT (or, really any football game at any level above "small high school"), you will see the result. Pass blocking was, of course, revolutionized, but so was run blocking. Suddenly, the idea of sustaining a combo block was feasible in a way it was not in the past, and the result was the proliferation of the Zone Running scheme. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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