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Football is here! I can't think of any more anticipated football season in our lifetimes, just because it is bringing some sense of normality in what has been a whackadoodle year for all of us.
The first month or so of any NFL season (at least since the turn of the century) is sloppy. Starting players don't have that many game reps. Practice reps are fewer than they used to be an many veterans try to avoid much real activity in the camp and preseason. Every year we see a product in September that looks nothing like what we will see by the end of the year. And this year is going to be even worse. No pre-season games. No off-season activities. Limited camp activities. We can expect the first month or even six weeks to be very sloppy. Players of all experience levels are going to make mistakes. Some, at times, are likely to look "out of it" or make truly boneheaded plays. I think we all have to be prepared for this and keep perspective: in May or even June, nobody really knew if we would even get to this opening day.
Before we throw stuff in our living rooms or come here to post what a bum X player is and we never should have signed him, pause and remember that these guys haven't played a snap of real football since January. Execution will likely be messy, but it will get better and all teams are going through the same thing.
Everybody just be cool.
The first month or so of any NFL season (at least since the turn of the century) is sloppy. Starting players don't have that many game reps. Practice reps are fewer than they used to be an many veterans try to avoid much real activity in the camp and preseason. Every year we see a product in September that looks nothing like what we will see by the end of the year. And this year is going to be even worse. No pre-season games. No off-season activities. Limited camp activities. We can expect the first month or even six weeks to be very sloppy. Players of all experience levels are going to make mistakes. Some, at times, are likely to look "out of it" or make truly boneheaded plays. I think we all have to be prepared for this and keep perspective: in May or even June, nobody really knew if we would even get to this opening day.
Before we throw stuff in our living rooms or come here to post what a bum X player is and we never should have signed him, pause and remember that these guys haven't played a snap of real football since January. Execution will likely be messy, but it will get better and all teams are going through the same thing.
Everybody just be cool.