Old School NFL Gone Wrong – Here’s yet another example.
Apparently this is what old school NFL coaches want as their in-game video access… Or at least this level of technology.
It’s just ridiculous.
The NFL is run by old men with even older ideas.
(gets crazier and crazier each season)
But I’m addicted to watching it… And I’ll keep complaining until something changes for the better.
Sorry lol
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ORLANDO, Fla. — This is a story about traditionalists fighting back against technology. And winning!
For much of this decade, the NFL has pushed for video access on sidelines during games. It seemed logical. Coaches and players spend hours every week studying video. They still call it “film” or “tape,” of course. By any name, it is an essential part of reviewing the previous game and preparing for the next. Why not have it available in real time, to help with in-game adjustments or on-the-fly matchup evaluations?
So at last week’s owners meetings, for the second time in three years, the NFL competition committee proposed a bylaw change to add video functionality to select Microsoft Surface Pro tablets already used to view still images on sidelines.
Coaches? They lost their dadgum minds.
They reacted so forcefully, in fact, that committee chairman Rich McKay tabled the proposal and said it likely wouldn’t be addressed before the 2018 season. Investigating this fracas at the annual meetings proved to be an amusing journey into the deep but occasionally absurdist minds of the top 32 football coaches in the world.
In essence, NFL coaches think video would make in-game adjustments too easy for the ill-prepared slappies among them. (Themselves excluded, of course.)
“If I’m looking at the video, I’ll never be wrong,” Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said. “I’m against it because I think it takes some of your true coaching skills away and it makes it even for everybody, for good coaches and bad coaches.”
