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12-21-2010, 02:30 PM | #1 | |
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Enlighten me. How does a team with nothing more than draft position to play for find itself in a critical situation?
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12-21-2010, 02:35 PM | #2 |
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You think playing superior teams and coming from behind to win isn't going to lend itself to being looked at as having had critical situations just because one team is out of the playoff hunt. I know from playing in games like that at a moderately high level, as well as from talking with professional-level athletes, that your position is often not the mindset of the players involved.
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12-21-2010, 02:59 PM | #3 | |
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The pressure to win what is essentially a meaningless game is about equal to the pressure to win a playoff game, or one with huge playoff implications? That about right?
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12-21-2010, 03:06 PM | #4 |
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Pressure is not determined by a bunch of people in the stands or watching on television. Furthermore, what a spectator may consider meaningless will not necessarily be the same as what a player considers meaningless.
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12-21-2010, 03:14 PM | #5 |
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Milkman and Sully deserve the Congressional Medal of Jesus for dealing with TRR, Saul and JPB in this thread.
This notion that there are people that want Cassel to fail is rooted in ignorance, and is nothing more than an attack on posters they don't like. Nothing more. There's not a single poster here, with the exception of Mecca - who's gone MIA - that hasn't praised Cassel when he's done well. Me, Deez, Hamas, Dane, etc. Every one of us have pointed to his improvement in the pocket. His improved decision making. His leadership. His toughness. There's no doubt he's improved. None. But for some of us, we'd like to see that improvement manifest itself against an elite opponent/in a critical situation before claiming he's an upper echelon QB. He's improved. Is he good enough to win a championship? Remains to be seen IMO. Playing well in a win against a team like Baltimore or Pittsburgh would at least show me that he's capable of doing so. He's improved more than I thought he was capable of, so for that specifically, serve me some crow appetizer if you like. |
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