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Playoff hopes?


tmm161

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detroit looked very good after their first second third and fourth preseason games last year.

7 playoff teams lost their first preseason games last year. meanwhile (in addition to detroit) seattle, kansas city, oakland, seattle, and cincy all won.

pre-season is an indicator of a few thing but not of how the season is going to go. you want to know what teams have to work on and improve....you play preseason games. those who want to win the most when it matters will allow themselves to have all their flaws exposed in games that carry no weight in order to give them a chance to improve and work to correct them before the season starts. panthers found their flaws in spades. there is still over 3 weeks to get things worked out and 3 more games to see just how well they have addressed needs.

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For all the sky is falling people out there, do you even know what was happening last night? I know your flippant response is likely to be that we were getting our asses handed to us or something similar, but that would miss the real mark. What was happening is that we played a very vanilla game...actually not just vanilla, but a vanilla bean game (not even as complicated as normal vanilla). In other words, since we are playing the Giants during the regular season, we showed even less than we would have during a normal first game of the preseason.

Oh, and the Giants had their guards pulling, blitzed, used stunts, and some of the other techniques that are central to their scheme. Not to the extent or as complicated as we’ll see during the season, but enough that it was a big advantage in last night’s game. In case you either forgot or didn't know, Tom Coughlin likes to do this during the preseason games...even the early ones.

So to freak out over this one game is not only silly, but misses the point of what the preseason games really are for...evaluation and implementation under actual game conditions.

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