In case you haven’t noticed, the spread offense is doing more to kill the NFL than all the bubblewrap/PC/soccer mom crowd ever could in the hysterical War on Football.

Just look how hard it is to find a decent quarterback from the college ranks.

And offensive linemen? Ha! That’s even worse.

So last week, when the Custodian of Canton, eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune, was mingling with NFL coaches at the NFL owners meetings in pedestrian Boca Raton, Kaufman chatted with Cardinals coach Bruce Arians about offensive line play. Arians seemed to shake his head in amazement the Bucs found two rookie offensive linemen to excel, that being Donovan Smith and Ali Marpet.

“It’s extremely hard and you don’t expect those guys to play very well that first year because it’s such a different game,’’ Arians said. “So many of them now have never been in a three-point stance and have never heard a quarterback call a play in the huddle. “The quality of the athlete is so much greater at those positions, but the quality of the fundamentals is much less than it used to be. They’re not fundamentally ready … they’re going to fail. And with only one padded practice a week, it’s really hard to get offensive linemen ready to play. The Bucs did a nice job with it and that’s why both of those players are going to be so much better next year.’’

Yet, if one was to listen to the calculator kids, the Bucs should throw Smith off a pier into Tampa Bay. For whatever reason, the PFF tribe can’t stand Smith.

But what the hell does a successful NFL coach, who has a Super Bowl ring as an offensive coordinator and once worked for Bear Bryant, know about football anyway, huh?