If you are the quarterback for New England Patriots and you are giving Wes Welker feedback for his route running, you would say that your shortened running of the route caused me to need to throw the ball shorter down the field than expected which brought additional defenders to the play.
But what I want to end with is that, you know, to me we need to be careful when we go back and try to say we should do things like the '30s because the '30s sucked.