THESMEL
Smushdown! Take it like a fan!
I grew up on preseason being 1/4 of the season with 12 regular season games. Each regular season game is as important as the other - first or last in the NFL.
So this ignoring team and unit competence for the first games of the season bothers me. Fear and faith cannot live in the same stadium. Fear rules the preseason now, scared of getting hurt, scared of getting tired over long season.
Well I’m scared of throwing away a weak early schedule by waiting for a young defense to develop chemistry during the first quarter of the regular season. Counting eggs before they are fertile!
Especially with early division games this year. Preseason is not practice, it matters.
So this ignoring team and unit competence for the first games of the season bothers me. Fear and faith cannot live in the same stadium. Fear rules the preseason now, scared of getting hurt, scared of getting tired over long season.
Well I’m scared of throwing away a weak early schedule by waiting for a young defense to develop chemistry during the first quarter of the regular season. Counting eggs before they are fertile!
Especially with early division games this year. Preseason is not practice, it matters.