NFL - Are You Ready For Some Football?! - Off Season

[Al B. Sure!]

Rivers is throwing 50 times a game. All to Gates, MRT? Wide receiver is what they're lacking.

[Al B. Sure!]

So Randy Moss will have a bye after all this year. Damnit. He had two games where he goose-egged as is.

[MRT144]

Rivers is throwing 50 times a game. All to Gates, MRT? Wide receiver is what they're lacking.

Yes, throw them all to Gates. I have no problem with this.

[Al B. Sure!]

Just an observation. I was looking at the TE list and saw two Gronkowskis (NE's Rob and Denver's Dan) and I know Dallas has a RB named Chris Gronkowski. All brothers who came into the NFL either this year or last. Kind of cool for that family.

Though it kind of goes to show you how much genetics plays a role in getting to the professional level in any sport.

[Ming]

Though it kind of goes to show you how much genetics plays a role in getting to the professional level in any sport.

Genetics... maybe. But their dad was a football player, and people who grow up in a football household, with their role model being an ex football player, are more likely to go down that path. Just look at the Manning brothers. I'm sure their dad had a lot to do with them being QB's. If the Manning brothers had been raised by a lawyer, they might never have ended up as QB's.

[MRT144]

Just an observation. I was looking at the TE list and saw two Gronkowskis (NE's Rob and Denver's Dan) and I know Dallas has a RB named Chris Gronkowski. All brothers who came into the NFL either this year or last. Kind of cool for that family.

Though it kind of goes to show you how much genetics plays a role in getting to the professional level in any sport.

I want to put together a team of Gronkowskis and Johnsons.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Genetics... maybe. But their dad was a football player, and people who grow up in a football household, with their role model being an ex football player, are more likely to go down that path. Just look at the Manning brothers. I'm sure their dad had a lot to do with them being QB's. If the Manning brothers had been raised by a lawyer, they might never have ended up as QB's.

Yeah, this seems more likely. I mean, can you really look at Eli Manning and see someone who has a genetic predisposition to be a successful athelete?!

[Al B. Sure!]

Huh? Of course if the Mannings were the sons of a lawyer they likely wouldn't be football stars... but that's the point! Archie was an NFL QB so he begot more NFL QB's.

Not to mention the fact that Eli and Peyton are both 6'4". There are definitely certain physical archetypes associated with different positions and those are often linked with height and are genetically determined.

It just seems like everywhere you look, a lot of players are the sons of former players or have brothers in the NFL and I think that's more about genetics than family tradition... family tradition can't make you taller or faster.

[Al B. Sure!]

Yeah, this seems more likely. I mean, can you really look at Eli Manning and see someone who has a genetic predisposition to be a successful athelete?!

And yet Eli is a much better athlete in the pure physical sense than his brother...

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I didn't say his brother was a Greek god either.

[Ming]

Huh? Of course if the Mannings were the sons of a lawyer they likely wouldn't be football stars... but that's the point! Archie was an NFL QB so he begot more NFL QB's.

Not to mention the fact that Eli and Peyton are both 6'4". There are definitely certain physical archetypes associated with different positions and those are often linked with height and are genetically determined.

It just seems like everywhere you look, a lot of players are the sons of former players or have brothers in the NFL and I think that's more about genetics than family tradition... family tradition can't make you taller or faster.

If Archie had been a baseball player, do you think the Brothers would be QB's? Sure, if you get good genes, it helps. But it probably has a lot more to do with what you are exposed to as kids. Again, I know some lawyers who were "good" athletes, and their sons ended up as lawyers, not professional sports players.

[SlowwHand]

And yet Eli is a much better athlete in the pure physical sense than his brother...

Idiot.

[Al B. Sure!]

Explain, Sloww. Eli is faster and more agile than his brother. It's not saying much but he still is. Eli is also listed 12lbs lighter so that also helps.

When do you see Peyton doing **** like this?



Eli scrambles around a good bit. Granted, his brother never has to but can you really even picture Peyton juking defenders?

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Count the holds...

*sigh*

[SlowwHand]

Come on, Al. Call it more brains or call it physical, or both, but Eli doesn't hold a candle to Peyton. Personally, I don't think either one of them has stepped outside their father's shadow. The man had zero to work with, as far as a team.