NFL 2021 Off-season and Free Agency Discussion

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The 2020 "Performance" Based Pay recipients have been announced



It should be noted that the fund does not actually reward performance, it rewards playing time (ie % of snaps). That is why OG Dakota Dozier, who was close to the worst Guard in the entire NFL last year, heads the list for the Vikings.
 

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GG.exe Highlighting for the first minute of this video, Florio having a good crack at Simms for claiming inside knowledge after the fact about things like he always does.. 😂😂🤗🤗

 

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Q: How did QB FB HB become misaligned?

A:
Started with what could be considered the original football formation after the advent of the seven man line: the single wing.

In the single wing, one back was deepest, one was slightly offset and shallower, a third back more offset and closer to the line, and the fourth back was on the wing.

Thus: fullback, halfback, quarterback, wingback.

Plays began with a snap to the fullback.

Interestingly, the quarterback’s job was to call the plays and call out the snap count. When they started to put a player under center, he was the guy that took that job.

This begat the straight-T and wing-T era, which evolved variants such as the I-formation and the pro-set formation. The halfback became the star attraction as a rusher because the centrally aligned fullback was in the best position to take quick rushes up the middle, while the halfback had flashier opportunities to run behind a blocker or to run outside.
 
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