Name: Is the NFL Getting Soft?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is the NFL Getting Soft?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is the NFL Getting Soft?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-05. Transcript available.

When you look at the players today, do you feel like it was easier for them to
be able to pick up stats?
I mean, the game has changed.
The game has evolved a lot.
Obviously, from a receiver standpoint, they throw the ball much more, much more.
The era I played in, it was more about running the ball to open up the pass.
So they definitely, I mean, it's a different average.
They have an added game, too.
So it was much more difficult.
And the game is a little bit more lenient in favor of the offensive side
because defensive defenders really can't do anything.
You can't hit.
They throw flags for everything.
You get fined for everything.
I think my era and the era before me, football in general back then, was the
true definition of football.
I mean, it's a gladiator sport.
Yeah, definitely.
Why do you think they softened up the rules like that?
Why do you think they made it like that?
Honestly, the truth, I forgot what era it was when they sued the NFL for all
the injuries,
all the trauma that players have suffered in the past.
Yeah.
And they won the lawsuit.
It might have been a billion or something like that.
And they had no choice but to change it.
Oh, yeah.
The National Football League was sued for failing to protect players from head
injuries,
which can lead to CTE starting in 2011.
In 2012, a class action lawsuit was filed to consolidate number 4,500 former
player cases.
So they settled that, huh?
Yeah, they won.
Damn.
Those players won.
And that's why the rules are what they are today.
I know they always preach about player safety, but that's, I mean, player
safety is cool.
It's understandable.
But players have gotten faster, stronger, bigger.
The dimensions of the field haven't changed at all.
So, therefore, injuries are still going to happen.
Concussions are still going to happen.
There's no way to prevent that.
Yeah.
It's impossible.
Yeah, because that's part of it.
You can't just stop that from happening.
It's part of, you know what you signed up for.
Yeah.
You know what you signed up when you make it, you know, as a 1% in the NFL.
It's a gladiator sport.
It's barbaric.
It kind of is a little bit of a bummer because you don't really get as many,
there's not a
love, enough defensive cornerbacks and safeties.
They don't really get enough love then because you don't even get to know them
as much because
they can't play as much defense.
Does that make sense?
A little bit, but some of them have made a name for themselves that are really
good, really
really good.
The Jalen Ramseys and McDuffie and let me see, I can think of some of these DBs
off.
Sauce Gardner, Derek Stingley.
You know, some dudes are really good regardless of the game changing the way it
has.
Pat Sertain, Lazarius Sneed, really good.
Jalen Johnson, good.
Young dude, Christian Gonzalez with the Patriots.
Man, hey, he's an animal.
Wow.
He's an animal.
And there's another young fella.
Latino right there.
Yeah, there's another young fella in, damn it.
Horn from the Panthers is really good as well.
Joe Horn's son?
Yeah, Joe Horn.
He is nice.
Really?
So despite the rules being what they are, they've gotten so good technically,
you know, trying
to adapt to the rules, that some of them stand out.
But they're just, it feels like you do, there can't really be that beast out
there that's
just like clapping dudes down.
No, you can't.
You can't.
You can't.
And those, the first thing that comes to mind is the safety or maybe linebacker
from the
Texans who got suspended.
I think he got suspended maybe once or twice because he plays like he's back in
the old
days.
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera, something, something like that.
Al Jazeera?
Not him.
Who is it?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Say his name the right way.
Aziz Al-Shayr.
Aziz Al-Shayr, yeah.
Oh, hell yeah.
He's an op, bro.
He's working for the Middle East over here.
He's over here doing some shit.
He plays football the way football should be played.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
I got to get his jersey, man.
Yeah, he's good.
He's really good.
But yeah, you don't hear, there's not like that Ronnie Lott guy, you know what
I'm saying?
They just don't have those bangers or like, who was the guy that played for
Denver that
was just a banger back there?
Steve Atwater.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Steve Atwater, Bob Sanders.
Oh, he's old school.
Yeah.
He's old school.
And obviously right there, players should have slid early.
Slide early.
Yeah.
What do you think about the slide, man?
Because honestly, as a fan, it doesn't even make it fun.
If the guy's running, you know he's going to slide.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It just seems, I don't know.
You would almost rather don't do this play or somebody get hit.
Well, not really.
It just slide early.
You know the guys are coming.
They're much faster than you, especially quarterbacks.
They're much faster than you.
And Mahomes is one who's really tricky as he'll purposely slide late to get a
penalty.
He does it all the time.
And sometimes he'll pretend like he's going down or going to step out of bounds
and stay
in just a little bit, just a tad second longer.
Oh, yeah.
Just to get a flag thrown.
God, he's lingering.
Offensive players are using the rules to their advantage.
And it puts the defensive players in a pickle.
Yeah.
But it builds it up for people want stats.
People want to see the scoring.
Yeah, yeah.
You know?
So I guess it's just a sign of the times.
Do you think it can ever swing back the other way?
Or do you think that the legal issues and stuff are going to keep it out of
that?
Absolutely not.
It will never swing back the other way.
Because the NFL, they have to protect themselves.
They got to protect the shield and protect the players, you know, on the back
end.
What do you think the NFL could do differently now to make it more exciting or
to make it
a better product, if anything?
I mean, listen, it is the best product.
There's really nothing else.
You think so?
I think the NFL's going down, man.
No.
I don't think it's.
I think people like college better.
Hell, some people like damn WNBA better.
I don't like that.
Absolutely not.
Some people do.
Some young men do.
Yeah.
A couple guys do.
Yeah.
The NFL will always be the cream of the cream of the crop.
You think so?
Always.
I don't know.
There's something about it sometimes.
I don't know if the field should be bigger.
I don't know what should happen.
Sometimes I feel like it, like the guys have almost gotten too fast where I
feel like sometimes
with the running backs is what I do feel like.
You don't get to see enough good moves because there's not enough space for
them to do them
in because everybody's so fast now.
Yeah.
I don't know if that's true or not, but I feel that way sometimes.
I don't know if you could have a Barry Sanders now, not because you couldn't
have the same guy.
No, you could.
You just will never have another Barry Sanders.
That ain't happening.
That may be fair.
That is not happening.
Absolutely not.
That might be fair.
Not even close.
Yeah.
It just looked like the, you know, like it used to be once you got around the
defensive
end, wasn't going to get out there to get you.
Well, you know, most of the time players back then were not as fast.
Now we have, you know, D linemen, even D tackles that run in four or five.
Right.
But I'm saying, does that, does that make it tougher for somebody's backs to
get out of
the backfield?
Not at all.
You just have to be that much better.
Yeah.
You got to be that much better.
Yeah.
I'm wondering why sometimes it feels like it's not the same as it used to be.
It's amazing.
I'm not saying that.
I'm not saying that the guys aren't extremely talented there.
But sometimes I just wonder as a fan.
Right.