Elvis wrote:The weird part of your take, to me, is the GSOT is part of what made the league what it is today. And you're a big fan of the GSOT, aren't you?
I think it's great. BB certainly learned the value of the passing game after seeing what we were doing. Pretty much the whole league has. And we helped usher the whole thing in...
Yeah, when it was an exception to the rule, it was great. It was Razzle-Dazzle by Mad Mike and company. Homogenizing that style of football isn't what I hoped for. Re-writing the rules of the league to cater to that style of football isn't what I hoped for.
When teams like the Run and Shoot Oilers or GSOT Rams came along it was different, exciting, came with risks and was hard to sustain. It took just the right players all playing with precision to accomplish it. Brady didn't have Cooks or Edelman and still SHATTERED the SB record for passing yards(505). And that wasn't because he was surgically accurate with his passing all day. He was just lobbing up rainbows to wide open, no-name receivers or dumping off little screens to fullbacks that went for 60 yards.
The GSOT was high risk. Those points took a heavy toll on the QB's. Green blew out a knee. Warner broke his hand various times. Martin and Bulger both got hurt. You wanna play that wide-open type of offense, you had to pay a price. Now? There is no risk to the players and no consequence for being pass-happy.
1,200 yards of offense and just 1 punt and 1 sack combined?