The NFL Is Unwatchable

The game was so bad that it set offensive football back about 50 years--Ron Cook Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Browns-Stillers game today.

I don't know if the problem in Pittsburgh is Matt Canada—ask Todd Haley—is Kenny Pickett or some mix in combo.

Or ask Najee Harris:

Sitting in front of his locker in Cleveland Browns Stadium, a despondent Najee Harris expressed frustration about his performance and the Steelers' offensive inconsistencies…

…”I guess I'm trying to say it's just, I'm just at a point where I'm just tired of this shit.”

But it is not limited to the team that plays on the lonely field beyond Fort Pitt.

You could say the same thing about the green team in New York. 

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Same thing about Denver last season—Ask Nathaniel Hackett. 

Same thing about Bill O’Brien and quarterback Mac Jones up in New England last week.

You could say the same thing about La-La Bolt-Bolt today:

The Los Angeles Chargers locker room was mostly silent. Quarterback Justin Herbert and safety Derwin James talked quietly while many other players sat staring forward, seemingly in a mix of disbelief and frustration.

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“What we got to do a better job of is in the passing game.”-head coach Brandon Staley.

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"We just fed up," Chargers safety Alohi Gilman told ESPN. "Something's got to change."

Every year the NFL drafts the creme de la creme of college starlets and quarterbacks are at the very top of the draft board. Yet there is an offensive ossification that has occurred across the league. 

The NFL is in need of a revolution but necessity is the mother of invention, and there is no necessity in the NFL for change. Existential competition concentrates the mind wonderfully on innovation  but the NFL has no competition. No AFL, no ABA. And when it is not necessary to change it is necessary not to change.