The game of football has changed dramatically in the last two decades. Just watch the games on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (or Mondays and Thursdays). No longer is it the rough-and-tumble style of football centered around physicality, grinding out wins, and winning ugly.
Instead, it’s more of a finesse game, aimed at being more wide-open, like basketball on turf. Fans, for the most part, want high-scoring, action-packed games, not the old-school, defensive-minded games of yesteryear.
That bothers Pittsburgh Steelers’ star defensive lineman and team captain Cameron Heyward. In an interview with GoLong.com’s Ty Dunne, Heyward said that he believes people have become too enamored with high-scoring games and that they care more about style points than actually doing their jobs and winning games, even if it’s ugly.