1. Rogers will have no one with a fractured collar bone. When Crabtree comes back he will have Seneca Wallace.
2. There is no such thing as wearing players out trying to win in the regular season. if you don't win in regular season there is no post season.

*"dont want us to win out".. What the heck?


I know you didnt know about #1 when you posted... And that is my point. Too much football left to be played to invest so much energy in scenarios that become moot on 1 play in week 9.

1. Rogers will have no one with a fractured collar bone. When Crabtree comes back he will have Seneca Wallace.
2. There is no such thing as wearing players out trying to win in the regular season. if you don't win in regular season there is no post season.

*"dont want us to win out".. What the heck?


I know you didnt know about #1 when you posted... And that is my point. Too much football left to be played to invest so much energy in scenarios that become moot on 1 play in week 9.

Actually there is. Maybe its not the case with us but Manning and Brady's post season failures can be attributed to their team's careless wins over teams they would play again in playoffs. Taking a few wins over from 14-2 is still playoffs and still good enough for them to have won their divisions. No good deed goes unpunished. This is a payback league. Teams use HFA as a crutch.

"Careless wins"... I can't begin to apply any logic to that.

So teams should intend to lose?

No, but its appearing each year that sometimes its bad thing to be too good. We just need to hope we don't get trapped by a different gameplan. One I'm concerned about is Chicago. They already have notes on us from week 5. And the 3 days rest between two big games is enough to weigh on us. How do we go and win a hard fought game against SF and then do it again in Atlanta four nights later?