If you aren't concerned with how this team is playing just because it is preseason, you are in for a rude awakening. The preseason is a LOT more meaningful under the new agreement. Players just do not get enough reps anymore. Experience has a distinct advantage, and we have a very young, inexperienced roster. The team I have seen the last 2 weeks (the players that will most likely make the roster) could lose 12 freaking games this year. We are getting gashed out there. Bullied on both lines, and those are our supposed strength. Keep thinking these games are meaningless if you want to be an ostrich. Preseason is more important than ever nowadays IMO.
OK, you're saying I'm in for a rude awakening. And I tell you I am NOT concerned with how the team is playing because it IS preseason. You didn't quote me, though, so it was an indirect way of saying it. I respect that.
Why? Because I beleive in our coaching and players that didn't play.
-The OL couldn't run block, Im only truly happy they pass blocked well. That's all that mattered because it was Sam's first game back in a game that means 100% nothing on how this team is remembered in 2014. Nothing!
-Why do I need to stress our defense played basic and soft? If this was a real game, Aaron would have still done well because he's a great QB. However, he would have ate some turf in the process. He would have felt pain. How much pressure did we really bring? Exactly. Rogers got a pass because our coaches just wanted to line up and play. Where's the disconnect? I don't get it...
-Don't even try to feed the "preseason is more important than ever" line. Yeah right, I remembe our starters dominating under Spags in preseason. When the games counted, we sucked. No... heck no. There's so many things you don't see in preseason. That's why you take everything you do see with a big grain of salt. Everything! For example, how would have the OL fared with Long and Saffold in? I'd say pretty darn good. But we don't know, so you condemn nothing.
Just announce you don't like the direction this team is heading, based off of preseason, and I'll accept you don't know what you're talking about.