Originally posted by sacniner:
Originally posted by GhostofFredDean74:
But you have ZERO proof of this, other than your opinion. And it's not like college football players aren't bigger and faster than they were in the 70's too. Where do you think these insanely bigger and faster players come from, a manufacturing plant in Singapore? No, they come from the college ranks.
But the point is, people are stating this as a fact, when there's no recent evidence or examples today. There's no accounting for conditions such as the right college team, the right coaching staff with the right game plan and the right breaks of the game going their way against a hapless NFL team with a s**tty QB, slow defenders and an idiot head coach.
Given the right conditions, I think almost anything is possible in terms of a competitive activity.
Everyone is bigger and faster becasue of PEDs, earlier training, tech, etc. Although, a lot of college kids are still growing. To throw them in with a pack of grown a55 wolves is crazy. Remember, even the best college teams usually have a small number of players make the NFL. And a REALLY low number of players that actually have a decent career.
No NFL team would have "slow" defenders when compared to the college ranks. The best, fastest DBs and LBs make the NFL. They may be slow relative to the NFL, but do you think any of them would be "slow" against the college ranks? The cream of the crop makes the NFL. Even the s**tty NFL players.
Sometimes common sense can be the only evidence needed.
If that were the case, we would've always believe the world was flat (prevailing common sense at the time), doctors could never touch the heart in terms of surgery, the US will never have a black President and no man would ever walk on the moon. Point being, common sense isn't always common, and it's only true until it's proven to be false.
Comparatively speaking, many NFL teams have slow players on defense. Not all of their players are slow, but schematically, they might choose to be a bigger, more stout defense as opposed to a faster, quicker team. Plus, bad teams are bad for many reasons...sometimes their fast players aren't very good football players (hello Al), sometimes their players are incredibly athletic but undisciplined and sometimes they just don't mesh as a unit. Bad teams, though superior in size, speed and experience to college players, don't necessarily have good football players.
Not to mention, it's not inconceivable for superior football squads on all levels to lose to inferior squads. Football is not JUST a game of speed, size and strength...it's an intricate mesh of activities that requires a lot of moving parts to work together as perfectly as possible each and every game. Bad teams haven't figured out how to do this properly or consistently, thus, they are vulnerable not only to superior squads crushing them, but also inferior ones.
[ Edited by GhostofFredDean74 on Jan 8, 2013 at 9:57 AM ]
