..it's the best the team could hope for given injuries and new players just signed that need to be brought up to speed.
I do wonder though how much of this the team can handle when during this bye week, the coaches and players have to take time to try to prepare for 3 teams coming up in 11 days once play resumes.
Other teams except for Denver, don't have to do that. They just prepare for their next opponent and don't get distractions during the Bye Week like Dallas must do with having to actually study film and game plans of teams 2-3 weeks down the road..
..while the team immediately in front of them doesn't really get a bunch of the attention..
..that team being the Iggles.
At least not the attention they should from the players and coaches on a normal routine of prep had there not been a Bye Week.
So I'm doubious about this Bye Week and I'm doubious about how they team has to alter it's preparation schedules to meet the demands of the situation.
When we had the 90's teams with so much talent and veteran leadership, it was an advantage. In the last 8-10 years, it's not been an advantage at all.
More of a liability.
So while I'll take the Bye Week where it is at mid-season this year for a change as a plus, but I'm wondering how the week will be utilized and if it is a positive or a negative in the end to do it this way.
It's sort of like the supposed brainstorm to spend the week out in Cali before the Raider game to keep focus instead of flyng back and forth.
That obviously didn't work out, as they played the worst game of their season out there doing that.
We also saw the Jints come off their Bye Week and play us and they were flat as flat can be.
Can we avoid that in Philly coming off our Bye Week, plus trying to keep our eyes on 3 games within 11 days..?
Can we still play what will have to be a superior game to beat Philly in their desparate situation in Philly..?
Many of us will point back to this Bye Week and whether the team got it right or not depending on where we are over the next 3 games.
It's an interesting sidebar to the season...that's for sure.
I think this Bye Week more than any others in recent years, makes or breaks this team's season.
We'll see.
parcellswaterboy
can sit back and laugh when other teams lose, basically sit back and enjoy yourself watching other games, appreciating the great plays both teams make in the game, instead of bringing yourself to a near cardiac arrest watching Cowboy games lol
