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Then, in the locker room, reporters would try to find delicate ways to broach the subject of the team’s collaborative awfulness, and players would try to find new ways to say that everybody had to stay positive and stay together. It was like “Gilligan’s Island.” The plot changed slightly each time out, but the overriding story, as always, was that nobody was ever getting off the island.

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Also, the players did have something to say about the length of the football season.

“It’s a long season,” Waters said.

“Long season,” Gonzalez said.

“We’ve got a long season ahead of us,” cornerback Brandon Flowers said.

“(Expletive),” running back Larry Johnson said.

And this.