Preseason DOESN'T matter per huddle insiders... John Harbaugh has a PSA for ya

[Ricky Spanish]

Winning and losing doesn't matter in the preseason.

Also, I'm going to clear up something from my thread the other day:

Individual evaluations matter and the team as a whole has not looked good. I am not hitting the panic button though because I EXPECT us not to look great right out of the gate.

I'm not worried though. 

We have a new coaching staff, new QB, new WRs 1, 2, and 3, new RB, and new TE, all of which have never played together. There are only 10 training camp practices with the current CBA, so there is roughly a two week period where every one of those new people are trying to get acclimated with each other and figure out how each other plays and coaches. This takes some time. 

Every one of the "failures" we see during the preseason is a learning opportunity for this team on how to play better with each other. These issues will eventually get ironed out, but don't think it will happen over night. So I'm exercising patience and not sweating poor preseason performances. This staff isn't nearly as incompetent as Rhule's was on paper, so I don't anticipate it taking 7 years like we previously had to sit through.

We are this year's Jaguars. It took them about half the year to wash the stench of Urban Meyer off and find their footing. I anticipate something similar happening with us. 

[Khyber53]

17 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Hell, let's hold on longer than that.

Decades and decades, still holding on.

[ThPantherFan]

On 8/22/2023 at 7:58 AM, top dawg said:

That's what the point of preseason is, and what determines that are the goals that are set by the coaches.

Very well put.  It's not the W or L, it's what the coaches are looking for.

[Mr. Scot]

13 hours ago, Jackie Lee said:

Duce doesn't separate preseason and regular season and he's not shy about letting his backs know it...

 

Nor should he.

As a coach, he's going to expect full effort on every play whether it's practice, preseason or whatever. That's his job.

To be clear though, that's not the same as fans panicking over preseason results.

Edited August 23, 2023 by Mr. Scot

[TheBigKat]

Ravens matched their preseason intensity

 

 so have the Panthers

[ForJimmy]

1 minute ago, TheBigKat said:

Ravens matched their preseason intensity

 

 so have the Panthers

Now do the Lions. 

[TheBigKat]

1 minute ago, ForJimmy said:

Now do the Lions. 

They never played Goff

[ForJimmy]

Just now, TheBigKat said:

They never played Goff

So they didn’t take preseason seriously???

[frankw]

Lions went undefeated in preseason and still went winless rabble rabble rabble.

[TheBigKat]

The preseason told us all we needed to know

[Varking]

Just now, TheBigKat said:

The preseason told us all we needed to know

Dalton can play in a hostile environment?