After Monday night’s dud of a game between the Bears and Vikings, WFAN's Boomer and Gio opened Tuesday’s show wondering what has gone wrong with the NFL product this year.
Boomer said last week that he agrees with Tom Brady’s sentiment that the league’s product has declined, but he also believes some of it is out of the league’s control, like the injuries to so many high-profile quarterbacks.
“There have been 50 quarterbacks that have played this year. I don’t know how many different combinations of offensive lines,” Boomer said. “It’s like disjointed.
“When you lose a guy like Joe Burrow or Kirk Cousins, that’s 28-30 points that you’re not getting from those teams.”
Plus, Boomer says players coming out of college don’t seem as prepared to make the jump like they did in years past.
“The players coming out of college are ill-prepared to play in the NFL,” Boomer said. “The far majority of the young guys coming in, especially the quarterbacks, they don’t have any development time, they’re coming from spread offenses, they’re very rarely under center, they don’t have to read as many defenses in college as they do in the pros, and it’s really a struggle.”
Still, despite so many yawners of games this year, like Monday night, there are still teams that are must-see TV.
“There are still top-tier quality teams,” Boomer said. “In the NFC, I think there’s three of them, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Dallas, and in the AFC, there are probably two of them, you have Kansas City and Baltimore.”