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Uh oh. Starting to feel it ...

August 5, 2010

I love preseason.

And I hate it.

I love seeing my team storm the field in full battle gear for the first time in eight long months, pouring through the smoke and thundering bass grooves and prehistoric roar of a well-lubricated partisan crowd.

I hate being reminded, around midway through the second quarter, that I don't know who a lot of the guys wearing those colors with unfamiliar numbers are ... and that a lot of them won't be around in a month so how well or badly they do out there really doesn't matter.

I love that a week from tomorrow on Friday the 13th (hmm), I will get to witness the beginning of A New Era—Mike Shanahan, Donovan McNabb, Trent Williams, the 3-4 defense.

I hate that I really won't. The New Era won't truly begin until Septermber 12 when the Dallas Cowboys come to town.

I love that I will get my first taste; my first peek at what this new Redskins team "looks like" in action.

I hate that while I am finally getting that peek, how they play—good, bad or indifferent—may or may not have anything to do with how they look come September 12.

I love that we will have actual football to talk about again. Was it a bad pass or did the receiver run a lazy route? Did the rookie left tackle get smoked inside by the defensive end or did the guard blow his assignment, pulling right instead of taking the away the inside rush lane? Did the corner get toasted one-on-one on a simple fly route or did the safety bite on an average look-off by the quarterback and blow his deep coverage?

I hate that many will treat each and every one of those actual football things as sure-fire Portents of Things To Come. That the player in question is either a can't-miss Pro Bowler or simply can't play. That the new system is either money or fatally flawed. That the New Era is either headed for Dynasty or the new regime will be looking for work come January...

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Conn

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Pre-season games suck.

To each their own. As long as you take it for what it is (4 exhibition games to evaluate depth), I think it can be enjoyed as an early alternative to the real season. Its certainly better than tuning in to Arena Football or the CFL.

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Lombardi's_kid_brother

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To each their own. As long as you take it for what it is (4 exhibition games to evaluate depth), I think it can be enjoyed as an early alternative to the real season. Its certainly better than tuning in to Arena Football or the CFL.

For years, I got suckered into them and then realized that it's four quarters of really bad football played by guys who aren't that good.

But then again, I can see the thrill in being lubricated while warriors in armor do battle.

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To each their own. As long as you take it for what it is (4 exhibition games to evaluate depth), I think it can be enjoyed as an early alternative to the real season. Its certainly better than tuning in to Arena Football or the CFL.

I'm with you on that. Though pre-season isn't the most exciting to watch, I do enjoy watching young players play their heart out. I do believe pre-season should be shortened, but I know that it is very important to have.

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Lombardi's_kid_brother

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I am not a fan of the preseason. The part i hate is we dont need 4 games to evaluate depth. They could just as easily do controlled scrimmages for this, and while injuries are going to happen it is much less likely.

Is it wrong that injuries are my favorite part of the pre-season?

Granted I don't want to see Redskins go down, but nothing is better than watching an All Pro go down for the season in front of 25,000 bored fans on a hot August night.

"Well, there go our Super Bowl hopes. But we are going to be 3-1 in the pre-seaon. That's something, right?"

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Is it wrong that injuries are my favorite part of the pre-season?

Granted I don't want to see Redskins go down' date=' but nothing is better than watching an All Pro go down for the season in front of 25,000 bored fans on a hot August night.

"Well, there go our Super Bowl hopes. But we are going to be 3-1 in the pre-seaon. That's something, right?"[/quote']

I am just terrified that one the first play Willams blows his block someone comes barrelling through the line and knocks DM5 out for the season. If he had a red jersey on that would never happen. Qb's are to important in this league to have them get injured in a game that means nothing.

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Destructis

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Also' date=' you own Spartacus on DVD, don't you?[/quote']

Billy, do you like gladiator movies?

I like the preseason. If we stink it up, we know it's just pretend anway. It doesn't really matter and we can bring up the old Joe Gibb's years when he never won in the preseason but would go to the SB.

This is the time of the year for hope....before all our hopes came crashing down. (Just the last 10 years though) This year will be different. We have new players and made some great moves in the offseason that will put us over the hump.

Who should I pass the koolaid to next?

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I just love the fact that it means every weekend from here on out we will have football!

Exactly. Its pathetic, but at this point, I don't care whose scrubs I'm watching this preseason, besides our four games :ols:

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Same here, I'd rather watch 8 preseason games than CFL or Arena seasons. I'm just happy that football is near. And I actually like watching the rookies and guys that won't play in the regular season. Even if those guy never play a single regular season snap, it doesn't mean they can't have their own rabid fan club and 15k post thread. ahem ahem.....

This year though, I'm actually looking forward to the regular season with confidence that we'll field a REAL football team, O and D. So, of course I'm more excited about September, but I do like the warm up for what it is.

EDIT: Oh, and Om, the article is completely true. Nicely done.

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