Bye Week Coming Up

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

I would have like to seen the bye come somewhere around the seventh or eighth game of the season. Do you guys think we have put too much stock in the bye weeks since they've started having them or could this impact our team later down the road? During the 80's and the 90's the Redskins and other teams would just roll right through the season injuries and all.

During the 80's teams had more depth because there was no cap. There wasn't a huge drop off from your 1st stringer to your 3rd stringer except in cases where your first stringer was a HOFer. At least on the teams that had a clue, which the Skins did, this was the case. I do think the 3rd week bye is way too early for any team and generally unfair. It makes no sense to me why they don't run the byes from week 5 to 12 instead of 3 to 10.

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

During the 80's teams had more depth because there was no cap. There wasn't a huge drop off from your 1st stringer to your 3rd stringer except in cases where your first stringer was a HOFer. At least on the teams that had a clue, which the Skins did, this was the case. I do think the 3rd week bye is way too early for any team and generally unfair. It makes no sense to me why they don't run the byes from week 5 to 12 instead of 3 to 10.

And it will be just our luck the injury bug will hit us around week seven or some crap!!