Super Bowl Domination

Chapter 172 The undercurrent is surging
Cleveland Browns, San Francisco 49ers, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets, Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers, Atlanta Falcons.

A number of teams have sent interview invitations to Levi, covering all draft picks from high to low.

Without a doubt, Levi became the busiest person in the entire training camp. He never stopped working and didn't even have time to drink water.

This is indeed a little surprising, but not shocking. People can foresee the Alliance's curiosity about Levi, but has it reached such an extent?
Before the rookie training camp, there were many discussions about Levi in ​​the NFL, and one of the opinions was very popular:

It’s not that Levi is not good enough, but that Shaban’s system fully brings out Levi’s abilities.

There are many reasons why the status of running backs in the professional league is declining. In addition to injuries, passing the ball is king, etc., there is also the offensive system.

The running back is a position that relies heavily on blocking and cooperation. An excellent offensive line is responsible for clearing the way for the running back, and the wide receivers and tight ends are responsible for blocking. Only in this way can the running back fight his way out of the huge crowd. Otherwise, even someone as strong as Henry will be unable to fight against four hands and will easily become exhausted.

Because of this, an excellent ground attack team often has a top offensive line, and the coach arranges tactics to help break screens.

The Alabama Crimson Tide is such a team.

Levi's excellence is beyond doubt, but is such excellence completely dependent on the offensive system of the Alabama Crimson Tide? After changing a team and a system, will Levi be unable to adapt to the local environment and expose all his shortcomings? Any average running back who enters the Alabama Crimson Tide should be able to perform at the top level, right?

After all, Levi has only been on the football field for one short season, and the reference sample is really too small, so these concerns are justified.

Kamara's provocation stems from his advocacy of this view.

In particular, Levi's absence from other training camps and his continued mystery have further fueled this view. People generally believe that Levi is afraid of exposing his shortcomings and affecting his draft pick, so he simply rejects all training camp invitations.

but!

In the rookie training camp, Levi showed his abilities in all aspects, from injury assessment to the Vondrick test, from physical test data to catching tests, finally letting people see the brilliance that Burns had discovered in Levi in ​​the first place, which once again made Levi the undisputed focus among the rookies.

And, that's still not all.

When the interviews were all over, Levi, who didn't even have time to drink a sip of water, thought he could finally take a breath, but he didn't expect that the Green Bay Packers would send him an interview invitation at the last minute.

Occasionally, such unexpected situations do occur. After the scheduled interview, the team is not satisfied with the results. After discussion between the team manager and the head coach, they will send out another invitation temporarily, hoping to find a more suitable option.

In fact, the Green Bay Packers have interviewed several other running backs, but the three major running backs all skipped them because their draft pick was not high, only 29th, and they really didn't want to get involved in this controversy; however, they did urgently need a running back.

In the 2016 season, the Green Bay Packers made it all the way to the NFC finals to face the Atlanta Falcons. Before the game, people were generally optimistic about the Green Bay Packers' advancement, but relying solely on the strength of Rogers, the ground offense was completely weak, and the Green Bay Packers' offense still lacked explosiveness.

Can you imagine?
Throughout the game, the Green Bay Packers' ground offense did not exceed 100 yards, and no running back had more than 30 yards on the ground.

In the end, the Atlanta Falcons defeated the Green Bay Packers 44:21 to win the NFC championship and advance to the Super Bowl final.

The Green Bay Packers need a ground attack. Even though they have one of the best quarterbacks in the entire league and even though the NFL has fully entered the era of passing offense, they really need a ground attack.

With no other options, the Green Bay Packers got involved in the vortex of this hot topic and invited Levi to an interview. Suddenly, the situation became particularly interesting.

More than one-third of the league's 32 teams interviewed Levi.

This!
On the one hand, people are saying that running backs are money-losing products, and fewer and fewer people are willing to take the risk of using their first-round picks to choose running backs; on the other hand, it is impossible to ignore the market bonus of Levi as a Chinese player. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a sure win, and only Jacksonville Jaguars' Caldwell is still there complacently boasting about his own cleverness. Before the answer was revealed, their cards had already been seen through.

At the same time, no one can deny the irreplaceable role of a top running back in the team's offensive tactics.

Then, chaos ensued.

In fact, not only the teams, but also NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is taking action.

Since taking office in 2006, in just ten years, Goodell has doubled the market value of the NFL, and the wealth of the teams has also increased accordingly; he also had the foresight to lay out the global market early on, ambitiously wanting to set off a craze around the world.

In 2016, in the ranking of the world's richest professional clubs, the NFL occupied half of the top seats, with a total of teams ranked in the top , and the Dallas Cowboys have been the champion for three consecutive years.

No wonder Goodell's approval rating among team owners is at a new high.

There is no reason why Goodell couldn't see what ordinary team managers could see. He also fanned the flames behind the scenes. For a while, news about Levi was everywhere, and the exposure rate reached an incredible level, but Goodell's real brilliance did not lie here.

——Running back.

Goodell's bundled sales pushed the competition among the three running backs, Fournette, Levy and McCaffrey, to a peak.

Because Goodell knows that the league has been completely focused on passing offense in recent years, so the value of running backs has been declining, and teams have become increasingly reluctant to use high draft picks to select running backs; but now, Goodell needs the team to be bolder and more resolute in choosing Levi, and relying solely on Levi's strength may not be enough.

Therefore, they need to reawaken the value of running backs, make fans believe that running backs are an indispensable piece of the puzzle in competing for the Super Bowl, and let the fans give the team manager the courage to boldly select running backs with high picks.

All of a sudden, the discussion surrounding the three major running backs was overwhelming, and other running backs also received more attention.

At the same time, Goodell personally visited China again, widely invited Chinese media to go to Philadelphia, the venue of this year's draft, to live broadcast the draft and witness history.

Everything is done to promote this year's draft.

If nothing unexpected happens, Levi will be selected 100%, and as long as he is selected, it will be a historical moment.

The only suspense now is whether he can be selected in the first round? Or to be more precise, at what position and by which team?

The heat wave is rolling in, getting more and more intense. Now the atmosphere has reached this point. It should... not... fail, right?

First update today.

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