NFL Passing: Then vs. Now

You go back and look at, you know, what passing percentage is in the NFL back in this, you know, the '70s, you know, if you were completing 50% of your passes, you know, you were having a very good year. Today's NFL, if you're not completing two-thirds of your passes, you're not playing football, you know. It's just, you know, fact of the matter, right? And then, you know, it seems like today in the NFL, you know, offensive coordinators and head coaches, play callers and offensive and, you know, fall in love with their really thick playbooks. You know, they have these big sheets and they've got 100 different plays that they've practiced and game planned for. Back in the '70s, you know, quarterbacks called their own plays. Terry Bradshaw, the Steelers, called his own plays. Uh, and there was a prevailing thought of, you know, we are going to run a play, and if you can prove to us that you can stop it, then we'll maybe try another. And sometimes you would only run a handful of plays a game because the other team could not stop You know, so it's, you know,