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- Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: HOF and HOVG Talk
- Topic: Future Hall of Very Good players
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1178
Future Hall of Very Good players
Out of curiosity, Are there any players or coaches who are currently active or recently retired (say in the last five years or so) that you think are likely to run through their eligibility without making the Hall of Fame and that years into the future could be seen as Hall of Very Good? In other wo...
- Fri Jun 28, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NFL Defenses of 1977
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2057
Re: NFL Defenses of 1977
One factor that finally tipped the balance in 1977 is likely that many teams couldn't even run the ball particularly well any more. The rushing average was 4.1 in 1976, in 1977 it was 3.8, despite more carries. Defenses knew year over year they didn't need to respect the pass, teams tried to run, d...
- Thu Jun 27, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NFL Defenses of 1977
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2057
Re: NFL Defenses of 1977
Just like in baseball in the 1960s, 1977 was a culmination of strategic and rule changes. As much as some people here love the 1970s, the 1950s and 1960s were recognizable two platoon football as well, with higher scoring, more successful passing than you had in 1977. If the NFL was trying to get b...
- Thu Jun 27, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Sports Illustrated MMQB Hypothetical Draft
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1668
Sports Illustrated MMQB Hypothetical Draft
I found an archived article in the Wayback Machine that used to be on Sports Illustrated’s website where 12 people drafted NFL teams. It went 26 rounds and 312 picks counting head coaches. The whole article can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210620020250/https://www.si.com/specials/mmq...
- Thu Jun 27, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NFL Defenses of 1977
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2057
Re: NFL Defenses of 1977
Though Griese led the league in TD passes, he had six of those in one game. Chuck Noll complained about the rules changes, saying it made mediocre receivers suddenly become good. I wonder which receivers he thought as "mediocre"? Very true, Griese had six touchdowns in one game, and a num...
- Thu Jun 27, 2024 4:47 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NFL Defenses of 1977
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2057
NFL Defenses of 1977
The 1977 NFL season was the final season before the implementation of the Mel Blount rule which impacted both coverage and blocking, and on paper it looks like it was quite a year for defense in the NFL. In that season, every single team listed below had a defense that allowed under 17 points per ga...
- Thu Jun 27, 2024 3:21 am
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: Teams that played up and down to the competition
- Replies: 1
- Views: 522
Re: Teams that played up and down to the competition
How about the 2003 Vikings? They went 9-7 and lost to four teams that finished 4-12 (Cardinals, Raiders, Chargers, Giants), also narrowly lost to a 7-9 Bears team. Their wins included victories against the playoff bound Chiefs, Seahawks, Broncos and Packers (whom they split that season). That sounds...
- Mon Jun 24, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NFL broadcast preservation status
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1734
Re: NFL broadcast preservation status
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but from the 1977 season onward is when we start to see the majority of NFL games have a full broadcast available in some archive? And for playoff games in the rounds before the Super Bowl, would that be more like the mid 70’s? Of the games I’ve only read about...
- Sat Jun 22, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NFL broadcast preservation status
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1734
Re: NFL broadcast preservation status
A handful of CBS games from the '70s (including Super Bowl VIII) are "truck feeds" -- copies straight from the production truck. That means the camera stays at the stadium during commercial breaks. Sometimes you can hear the announcers discussing talking points for the broadcast, but usua...
- Thu Jun 20, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Football Talk
- Topic: NFL broadcast preservation status
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1734
NFL broadcast preservation status
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but from the 1977 season onward is when we start to see the majority of NFL games have a full broadcast available in some archive? And for playoff games in the rounds before the Super Bowl, would that be more like the mid 70’s? Of the games I’ve only read about ...