We may never see this Again when it comes to Qbs

wwepatriot said
I use to play Fantasy alot in the 2000s up to now, never joined a league this year, but I can tell you this. Their was so much more consistency back then compared to today. Today its very hard to build a fantasy team because of so much unknown.

The unknown is there because the last 4-5 years we have really seen imo a huge drop off in really talented players and even QBs. I believe the proof of that is the fact of how bad KC was last year and still able to win a SB. It was due to the fact that most every team they had to go through was equally as bad or worse. That KC team barely beat the majority of the teams put in front of them all year, had to go through Baltimore, Dolphins, and Bills. All 3 of them have big question marks as far as being a contender goes. Heck Cinci went to a SB off Burrow and Chase, their was nothing else there but that.

Its crazy really. It all started when Brady retired.

Another theory I have is technology and it is impacting everything. Training and nutrition improvements across college football leading to more parity. If you look at the training, recovery and film rooms across major college programs you see the same thing you see at the NFL level. The big high school programs have training centers that were are on par with colleges 25 years ago. When everyone gets the same access starting at 14-15 years old it closes the gap from great to mediocre.

We also haven't seen a true freak at WR come out in a long time. We had guys like Moss, Megatron, Julio Jones, etc coming out every 4-5 years for a while there. We lack those big, fast WRs that break defenses.

Of course the RPO and spread offense variants has changed the type of QB coming out of college. I was thinking about this the other day. I don't know if a guy like Brees even gets a scholarship offer to major school. His size alone breaks analytics and scouting programs are now relying heavy on size/weight/athletic ratios at every position. These systems are also wanting speed everywhere. Now those 6'4+ freak wideouts are being turned into TE's in high school and college.

Finally analytics is playing a huge roll. Every team is chasing the same goal and scheme with defenses trying to rapidly catch up. This means players need to be versatile.

I think we'll continue to see skill players get leaner and faster while linemen stay the same size. this happened in basketball much faster. Analytics changed the entire way the NBA is played and rosters are built and did so really fast.