Weird Week One games

[Joelist]

I wasn't referring to a team or player being surprisingly good or otherwise. I was referring to the astonishingly sloppy play in a lot of games. And yes, it did manifest itself in seeing mediocre players going off (especially on offense) because of bad defensive gap play and alignments. That was just one of many things. How about Teddy Bridgewater not being able to hit the side of a barn with the ball? Or the parade of silly mistakes by the Cowboys and Giants? And so on and so on.

To me it goes back to the lack of practices under this CBA and its predecessor. Combined with the tendency of teams to not play starters in preseason too much we are seeing a LOT of rust in week one. If they want to shorten preseason then what I said is we should get in exchange a lot more practices, so that at least we can start seeing sharper football right out of the gate.