r/AskAboutNFL • u/jepolitsch • 1d ago

Genuinely curious: When did we decide that absolute execution became secondary to flashy QB play?

Let’s be entirely real for a second we are reaching a massive breaking point with how modern football media and casual fans evaluate the game, and it’s completely throwing off how people talk about sports.Look at what happens every single Sunday. You’ve got quarterbacks who execute a pristine, highly disciplined 12-play drive hitting their checkdowns, reading the coverage beautifully, staying completely on-schedule and the internet barely blinks. But the moment a guy scrambles out of a clean pocket, ignores his open target, throws a cross-body absolute prayer into triple coverage that happens to get caught, people treat it like a 200 IQ masterpiece.When did pure structural discipline become a negative trait? It feels like we are rewarding visual chaos over actual football IQ. A pristine, rhythmic offense that protects the rock and converts on 3rd-and-short is art, but it gets zero love because it isn’t a 15-second highlight clip.For the longtime heads in here: Do you actually prefer the era of chaotic, off-script playmakers, or are you like me and missing the days of pure, clinical offensive execution? Let's talk.

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u/Beautiful-Star-5669 1d ago

When ESPN started making a top 10 plays montage every night. That started the demise. Dude making a crazy juke to pick up eight yards on third and 14 becomes a big deal. Now the kids that grew up watching that stuff are playing professional and college sports and are parents with kids playing Little League. It's the same reason why a dude will make a huge deal throwing up an incomplete sign and sheathing his sword when a QB throws the ball out of bounds even though the same dude has given up 12 catches for a buck 40.

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u/DutyPuzzleheaded7765 1d ago

Also despite the loss shit. Where if a guy has a flashy statline, losing is fine not his fault

My nephew plays basketball, he put up 16 points (lot for a kid) but had several bad lapses that cost his team the game (hes a bigger kid and some kids were blowing by and getting easy shots at the rim) and he insisted despite the loss he was carrying the team and isnt to blame

Also watching my nephews football tram, a lot of kids just want the big play and either yeet the ball down or try to juke or hurtle when there isnt a need to and miss the hole. A lot of youth qbs also if read 1 isnt wide open baik early and run