[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Bette

Define parity. Layman's terms please.

Parity, in layman's terms is socialism... ...okay, jus kidding...sort of....

It's the NFL trying to balance out competition, level the playing field, so that all teams truly have a fair shot at a title...If parity is achieved, then you would see a lot of teams closer to 8-8, and a new champion every year...

I of course favor "An elite format"...the cream rises...the powerful teams crush the weak...and dynasties are born...

[azrael492]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

Parity, in layman's terms is socialism... ...okay, jus kidding...sort of....

It's the NFL trying to balance out competition, level the playing field, so that all teams truly have a fair shot at a title...If parity is achieved, then you would see a lot of teams closer to 8-8, and a new champion every year...

I of course favor "An elite format"...the cream rises...the powerful teams crush the weak...and dynasties are born...

I think that is the way it should be also. To me, there is nothing better than an upstart team beating the powerhouse.

[Bette]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

Parity, in layman's terms is socialism... ...okay, jus kidding...sort of....

It's the NFL trying to balance out competition, level the playing field, so that all teams truly have a fair shot at a title...If parity is achieved, then you would see a lot of teams closer to 8-8, and a new champion every year...

I of course favor "An elite format"...the cream rises...the powerful teams crush the weak...and dynasties are born...

Yeesh, let's not start that again.
But I still dont understand how they do this? I thought free agency is what did away with the dynasties. How do they create parity in the NFL?

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Bette

Yeesh, let's not start that again.
But I still dont understand how they do this? I thought free agency is what did away with the dynasties. How do they create parity in the NFL?

I think the Salary cap for one...if teams only have a certain amount of money to spend, no team gets to get all the good players...and rosters update with great frequency.

[Bette]

Originally Posted by azrael492

I think that is the way it should be also. To me, there is nothing better than an upstart team beating the powerhouse.

I like it when the upstarts come out on top too.
And dynasties are a lot of fun if your team is the dynasty.
But still, parity does kind of smack of socialism, doesnt it?
It seems like it still kind of comes down to money. Spread all the good stuff around so all the fat cats make more money and more people are happy. They will tell us the fans are happier too but they dont necessarily care about that unless we are spending our cash where they want it to go.
I like to see the upstarts win, but what if they dont? What if the powerhouse keeps winning, year after year after year? The good teams should win because they are good, not because of the owner's money.
I am kind of rambling here. Am I making any sense? Does anyone know what I am trying to say? If so, tell me.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Bette

I like it when the upstarts come out on top too.
And dynasties are a lot of fun if your team is the dynasty.
But still, parity does kind of smack of socialism, doesnt it?
It seems like it still kind of comes down to money. Spread all the good stuff around so all the fat cats make more money and more people are happy. They will tell us the fans are happier too but they dont necessarily care about that unless we are spending our cash where they want it to go.
I like to see the upstarts win, but what if they dont? What if the powerhouse keeps winning, year after year after year? The good teams should win because they are good, not because of the owner's money.
I am kind of rambling here. Am I making any sense? Does anyone know what I am trying to say? If so, tell me.

But is an upstart really an upstart in the face of parity? Are there really an underdogs if there are no favorites?...can there really be good without there being evil?...I say no...parity is the acceptance of across the board mediocrity...

[Bette]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

But is an upstart really an upstart in the face of parity? Are there really an underdogs if there are no favorites?...can there really be good without there being evil?...I say no...parity is the acceptance of across the board mediocrity...

Where did that come from???????



So, then maybe parity is the reason for so much poor football. Maybe its not just because there is not enough talent to go around. Maybe parity creates an artificial playing field.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Bette

Where did that come from???????

In the fact that you need opposition/contrast in all things...make it all the same, and what do you have?...

Originally Posted by Bette

So, then maybe parity is the reason for so much poor football. Maybe its not just because there is not enough talent to go around. Maybe parity creates an artificial playing field.

Exactly!...and who really wants that...

[azrael492]

Originally Posted by Bette

Where did that come from???????



So, then maybe parity is the reason for so much poor football. Maybe its not just because there is not enough talent to go around. Maybe parity creates an artificial playing field.

I believe that there is parity in football now. Once the talent is spread so thin, the only thing that will make a team great is coaching. Not just the head coach. They need a whole staff that can motivate the players to over achieve. That is why we still have teams that are more dominant than others.

[Bette]

Where did Dante Hall go to?????????????????

[Lefty Noob]

Originally Posted by Bette

Where did Dante Hall go to?????????????????

St. Louis Rams

[Bette]

On Access the other night, Baldinger was talking about the Dallas defense last year. Basically, he said the defense was too easy to read, no creating confusion on the blitz. I thought you could pretty much always tell when a team is going to blitz. I have heard similar criticism of the defense last year. Like even the Dallas defense was bored. Does the defense react to the offense, or the offense to the defense? Which comes first here, the chicken or the egg? What do I look for??? Make me a defensive genius. Layman's terms please.

[azrael492]

Originally Posted by Bette

On Access the other night, Baldinger was talking about the Dallas defense last year. Basically, he said the defense was too easy to read, no creating confusion on the blitz. I thought you could pretty much always tell when a team is going to blitz. I have heard similar criticism of the defense last year. Like even the Dallas defense was bored. Does the defense react to the offense, or the offense to the defense? Which comes first here, the chicken or the egg? What do I look for??? Make me a defensive genius. Layman's terms please.

You want to be deceptive on defense. When they know a team is going to run the ball, they want to make them think they are defensing the pass. That way they can collapse the defense on them. I am not that good of a writer, so I don't know if I can explain this well enough. I think the best example would be to watch the Patriots games against the Colts. Belichek doesn't have his defense line up until just before they are ready to snap the ball. It looks like they are roaming around looking for a spot. At the last moment, they set their defense not giving Manning a chance to read what they are going to do.

I don't think I explained it at all, but I typed a lot and didn't want it to be for nothing.

[Bette]

Originally Posted by azrael492

You want to be deceptive on defense. When they know a team is going to run the ball, they want to make them think they are defensing the pass. That way they can collapse the defense on them. I am not that good of a writer, so I don't know if I can explain this well enough. I think the best example would be to watch the Patriots games against the Colts. Belichek doesn't have his defense line up until just before they are ready to snap the ball. It looks like they are roaming around looking for a spot. At the last moment, they set their defense not giving Manning a chance to read what they are going to do.

I don't think I explained it at all, but I typed a lot and didn't want it to be for nothing.

You explained just fine. I always wondered why teams would wander around like that before the snap. I just thought they were confused.
I read the other day that the Dallas defense said they didnt have many plays and the opposing team could pretty much figure out what they were doing. Only they would fake a run and instead threw a pass. I'd have to say that worked pretty good too. Everytime the opposing quarterback would go deep, I just knew we were going to get burned, and we did. Also, Parcell was too conservative.

[Bette]

Define shut down corner. Layman's terms please.