Some people need to learn that you can't win by changing rules.
I am laughing my ****** off right now as I write this.
We went to shoot out this year. To add to that there were a lot of compromises. Instead of any touch we stayed with front of base. Then you could turn and burn anyone behind the line of scrimmage, except slot receivers. Then, the most puzzling change of all, your linebackers go from 7 to 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage
So I go and play my first game basically with my college team on men that really didn't match for the most part. Now the college team was designed for pure shootout so this is what happened:
I find my quick defensive lineman being turned a hairlash before my linebackers can support them.
When I blitz the board was quickly turned off and a fast rookie runner is hit, turned and goes in for a score.
When my corner shoves a guy out of the play the receiver is hit, then pivoted, and gets a critical first down.
Obviously without linebacker support I always had to be cognizant of the run so I was pretty much on a string out there.
I had two choices after that game. Say the rules are to blame and cry about them all year, or adjust to them. I figured, based on what I saw on the field that from watching me play in the college set on TV their may have been some who were brainstorming in the background to slow down that defense. Well, I love challenges so this is what I did:
I don't know who in the hell thought I couldn't tweak for strength. Although it is not my style, strength became a necessity. My noseguard got a safety last week by busting through three blockers to block a punt. I ended a game running right down the thoat of a strong team.
Offensively, I went from averaging about 17 points a game to now averaging 37.8 a game. I don't even use that garbage turn and burn because it is not used in most tournaments and leagues. I merely hit my passes. Twenty minutes a day wiped out every rule change!
Now, some coaches can't stop anyone because I think they forgot they have to play defense AND contend with their changes while they barely stay above 500. It is so ********ed funny. A rookie coach, who is also a strategist, is running away with his division because he walked in more mature and realistic about what was necessary to be successful.
I merely developed a killer defensive line who methodically penetrate and get there in due time. Maybe not in a split second like in Ohio. More like a full second. I am steadily finding ways to get my speed rushers in without being hurt by it. That has freed up my linebackers to blast those puny speed bases when they turn and burn.
What makes you laugh makes you cry I say. I have seen rules to stop good passers, runners, strength, and now speed yet the same people wind up at or near the top. Why? Because successful people adjust to the obstacles put before them. Others cry and blame it on others as their teams go down the tubes by their own hand (pen).
Man, I could go all day on this one!
Please note: I have never proposed a rule change.
