NFL Preseason Week #2

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by Defensewins

Insane crazy. I was in DC, Baltimore and New York last week and listened to sports radio (the Fan) in each city. It is freaking insane how the fans are going nuts based on how their teams are playing in the preseason. Dumb.
The winning teams use preseason the way it is supposed to be used, to take a really good look at all of the scrubs in order to fill out the bottom half roster correctly. Plus they do not run any of their bread and butter plays on offense and defense. So the winning teams usually lose most of the preseason games.
While the bad teams feel like they have something to prove and really try hard to win them all. They play their starters longer and thus against the other teams scrubs, so they have a false sense of improvement. Kind of like last week where we played our starters the entire first half and the Steelers starters only played the first series or two.
Once the regular season starts, it will be completely diffrent level of play. Similar to the rise in play when the playoffs start.

Our starters were not played for a longer period than the Steelers for some.....BS false sense of security. The Skins have made wholesale changes over much of the team with many occurring in the projected starting ranks. There is much to be seen and just trying to get them some semi-legit game time playing together for familiarity sake.
The Steelers on the other hand made few changes to their projected starting line-up and much less to be gained by playing their starters longer.

[Defensewins]

Originally Posted by Hog1

Our starters were not played for a longer period than the Steelers for some.....BS false sense of security. The Skins have made wholesale changes over much of the team with many occurring in the projected starting ranks. There is much to be seen and just trying to get them some semi-legit game time playing together for familiarity sake.
The Steelers on the other hand made few changes to their projected starting line-up and much less to be gained by playing their starters longer.

I never said the Redskins played their starters longer to create that illusion. I just gave that as an example where one team plays its starters much longer than the other team and the Redskins fans went nuts on the radio Monday talking about how great we are now. It happens every year.

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by Defensewins

I never said the Redskins played their starters longer to create that illusion. I just gave that as an example where one team plays its starters much longer than the other team and the Redskins fans went nuts on the radio Monday talking about how great we are now. It happens every year.

"While the bad teams feel like they have something to prove and really try hard to win them all. They play their starters longer and thus against the other teams scrubs, so they have a false sense of improvement. Kind of like last week where we played our starters the entire first half and the Steelers starters only played the first series or two".
.........HTTR

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by Hog1

"While the bad teams feel like they have something to prove and really try hard to win them all. They play their starters longer and thus against the other teams scrubs, so they have a false sense of improvement. Kind of like last week where we played our starters the entire first half and the Steelers starters only played the first series or two".
.........HTTR

I don't think it's about trying to prove any point. The Steelers have essentially the exact same team together this year that won the AFC last year. No need to leave starters in the game very long, especially in preseason game 1.

For the Skins, we have so many new, young faces, we need to leave guys out there to see what they've got. The Steelers don't need that sort of live game action evaluation like we do.

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by GMScud

I don't think it's about trying to prove any point. The Steelers have essentially the exact same team together this year that won the AFC last year. No need to leave starters in the game very long, especially in preseason game 1.

For the Skins, we have so many new, young faces, we need to leave guys out there to see what they've got. The Steelers don't need that sort of live game action evaluation like we do.

Totally agree...see post # 41

[irish]

Originally Posted by GMScud

I don't think it's about trying to prove any point. The Steelers have essentially the exact same team together this year that won the AFC last year. No need to leave starters in the game very long, especially in preseason game 1.

For the Skins, we have so many new, young faces, we need to leave guys out there to see what they've got. The Steelers don't need that sort of live game action evaluation like we do.

Exactly.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Hog1

Our starters were not played for a longer period than the Steelers for some.....BS false sense of security. The Skins have made wholesale changes over much of the team with many occurring in the projected starting ranks. There is much to be seen and just trying to get them some semi-legit game time playing together for familiarity sake.
The Steelers on the other hand made few changes to their projected starting line-up and much less to be gained by playing their starters longer.

What I took from our first games was our starters played better then theirs and then our 2nd and 3rd teamers, etc... out palyed them as well. If they do the same tonight then its starting to tell me we are well coached across the board and moving in the right direction.