I used to do this every season dating back to almost the initial iteration of this Forum, back when they merged the board I was on with this one (around late 90's or very early 2000's). But there are three things to remember about preseason:
1: It's Preseason!
2: It's Preseason!
3: It's Preseason!
There are no "I know, BUTs" - it's that simple! Time after time people get too high or too low. My first and only Friday Night Lights was the 2001 season (I just liked ST Vincent atmosphere better, even after Saturday's, it was fun, but I like the St Vincent atmosphere better). Ed Bouchette was standing near us, someone yelled "Hey, Ed, how are they going to do this year?" He turned around pinched his nose as if to say they were going to stink. I shook my head knowing you can't tell in training camp or preseason, and sure enough a 13 - 3 season later and it proved my point. With the way they do training camp and preseason now, you really can't tell how a season is going to go until several games in. They had 24 days of two a day practices back in the day, Starters played a fair portion of preseason games. Now they have far less practices and far gentler, and many starters don't play many if any snaps in preseason. And it has show the past decade or so, some of those first games for a lot of the teams are very sloppy and almost unwatchable, announcers have even said "It looks like preseason" because in a way it is, except they count.
I digress, I got off on a tangent. But I could give example after example of how bad the Steelers Offense, or Defense was going to be because of preseason games. One that comes to mind was the 2005 preseason when the starting offense never moved the ball (Ben Roethlisberger: 16 of 36 (44.4%) for 145 yards, 0 TDs, 2 INTs, 32.8 passer rating), the starting running backs were injured. I forget who I had to talk off the ledge, thought we would go 0-16, first two games of the season 37-0 and 27-0.
It's fun to watch, it's great to see guys do good, it's hard to watch guys who should be doing good not play up to what you want, but it's preseason.
And stop hating on a guy that goes 10 for 11 and has the best throws of the night, especially that Germie almost TD
1: It's Preseason!
2: It's Preseason!
3: It's Preseason!
There are no "I know, BUTs" - it's that simple! Time after time people get too high or too low. My first and only Friday Night Lights was the 2001 season (I just liked ST Vincent atmosphere better, even after Saturday's, it was fun, but I like the St Vincent atmosphere better). Ed Bouchette was standing near us, someone yelled "Hey, Ed, how are they going to do this year?" He turned around pinched his nose as if to say they were going to stink. I shook my head knowing you can't tell in training camp or preseason, and sure enough a 13 - 3 season later and it proved my point. With the way they do training camp and preseason now, you really can't tell how a season is going to go until several games in. They had 24 days of two a day practices back in the day, Starters played a fair portion of preseason games. Now they have far less practices and far gentler, and many starters don't play many if any snaps in preseason. And it has show the past decade or so, some of those first games for a lot of the teams are very sloppy and almost unwatchable, announcers have even said "It looks like preseason" because in a way it is, except they count.
I digress, I got off on a tangent. But I could give example after example of how bad the Steelers Offense, or Defense was going to be because of preseason games. One that comes to mind was the 2005 preseason when the starting offense never moved the ball (Ben Roethlisberger: 16 of 36 (44.4%) for 145 yards, 0 TDs, 2 INTs, 32.8 passer rating), the starting running backs were injured. I forget who I had to talk off the ledge, thought we would go 0-16, first two games of the season 37-0 and 27-0.
It's fun to watch, it's great to see guys do good, it's hard to watch guys who should be doing good not play up to what you want, but it's preseason.
And stop hating on a guy that goes 10 for 11 and has the best throws of the night, especially that Germie almost TD
