Their LT went down in the third of fourth quarter against the Bills. They started Wiz and moved three players on the OL around. They also had a couple of guys opt out for COVID reasons before the season started.
I'm not so sure about that. I don't think Koufax's athletic ability is common today. Supposedly his body structure was unique. I don't know of many current baseball players who also received basketball scholarship offers to say Duke or Kentucky. There isn't much sense debating this because we will never know how Koufax would have fared if he pitched now. I saw Koufax pitch against the Mets in Shea Stadium. I will never forget what I saw. His stuff was unbelievable. His curve ball was what we called a "drop" back then. It came to the plate not much slower than his fast ball and about head high. It started to break straight down right before it got to the plate and often bounced to the catcher.
Pitchers don’t get the chance to have complete games any more and Koufax wouldn’t either. They would try to save his arm as long as possible. It’s a different game....same reason no one will ever catch Cy Young’s win total...it’s not because Cy Young was a better athlete.
Interesting. That kind of explains the way the game played out. I'm surprised more betters didn't realize that the Chiefs were domed and bet big on Tampa.
I’m quite certain Koufax and a host of other old time pitchers would still be good to great today. But I’m equally as certain that many of today’s pitchers would have been great back in Koufax’s day. There are better athletes today in all sports.
Koufax was fast but his best pitch was his curve ball. One of the best curves ever. Also great control.
But you can see that athletes of today are better than in the past. For example, look at Jim Thorpe’s Olympic numbers....he wouldn’t win high school track events these days let alone gold medals. Today’s athletes are bigger, stronger, faster and thirty years from now the athletes will be better than they are now.
I'd argue the Patriots probably win more rings with Peyton under center, but we can play woulda coulda shoulda all day. Manning, at his peak, was better than Brady at his by the numbers. Has Brady had the better career? Absolutely. Unfortunately, Manning's body broke down, and it was the ultimate irony that he was carried to his second ring by a strong supporting cast, after so many years with relatively weak teams around him. Bottom line: to me prime Peyton is the best I ever saw do it (and I watched a lot of both guys).
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Wow, gotta call that one out. No way Brady wins under all the pressure that Maholmes got. The key to beating Brady his whole career was get great pressure on him. He hates being hit and gets frustrated. But he was always so,good at getting rid of the ball he didnge5 hitboften. But since KC had such a banged up Oline he woulda been hammered.
You are so right. I was talking with my brother this Weeknd about 90 mph fastballs and college recruiting-----My nephew played last season in a 16u baseball tournament in FL with about 200 travel teams from across the USA. Over 160 pitchers had fastballs over 90 mph. Development of players is insane.
KC’s two starting o tackles were out. They moved a guard to tackle and started Wiz.....who had been cut by three teams this year. O line was in bad shape.
He also promised to hook them up with Gisele's friends with a win. Now he's really got work to do.
I am saying that those all-time great Steeler defenses were crucial to Bradshaw’s 4 titles. So while he got beat up more, the Steelers did the same and that was a huge net gain in winning titles.
Fair point. Those pre-Super Bowl titles tend to be undervalued.
You are right. When Inread ‘the results would be the same ‘ I took that as Brady would win either way. But it was probably meant as Tampa wins either way.
Interesting point. I never thought about the mound height change. Besides accentuating his curve I wonder if the higher mound made his fast ball more intimidating. The hitters claimed that it rose as it approached the plate. I realize that that defies physics but maybe the way his fast ball behaved had something to do with the higher mound.
