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Why the obsession with the wide receiver position?

g8rh8rMD said:
Man, are you right. Whether watching on TV or sitting in the stadium, unless you're one of those guys that likes to sit in the endzone, and even then you're 100+ yards away from the play for half the game... Anyway, unless reviewing the all 22 on film, it's hard as **** to tell what's going on at the line of scrimmage, especially on the OLine. DLine is more spaced out and generally easier to tell what's going on.

But yeah, even the above average football viewer can tell you if the QB is getting killed, but not usually whether it's one guy on the line, the line communicating poorly or just not understanding the defensive pressure scheme, or sometimes the QB just not making the right reads, checks, or pocket movements.

Most underappreciated position maybe just because it's the least well understood.
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Spot on. It's also indicative as to why o-linemen are often* some of the most intelligent guys on a team. Their jobs really are probably the most complex/least understood in sports. Linebackers that are able to call defenses are probably up there too. That's why I always laugh when someone (usually a dork or a woman) implies that football players are dumb on a widespread level when it's quite possibly the most complex game going.
 
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Tad Footeball said:
Spot on. It's also indicative as to why o-linemen are often* some of the most intelligent guys on a team. Their jobs really are probably the most complex/least understood in sports. Linebackers that are able to call defenses are probably up there too. That's why I always laugh when someone (usually a dork or a woman) implies that football players are dumb on a widespread level when it's quite possibly the most complex game going.
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It's a game of chess where the pieces try to kill each other.
 
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