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(11 hours ago)Millhouse Wrote: It's a double edge risk to me. One hand they would be more prepared for the season by being more non-vanilla, maybe not full blown playbook, but a happy medium. On the other it's on tape for all to watch, mainly the Clowns. I see them as the weak link of the team by far, and I would rather risk them bein more prepared is all.
I get not wanting to show our hand early, but I definitely lean the other way. We should be running what we are gonna run at full speed. It is a new system. We have a lot of guys out (Trey, BJ) or returning from injury (Sample, Wilson, Dax, Turner) or rookies (Stewart, Knight). Get the kinks out now, rather than week one.
Also, all we are gaining by staying vanilla is an edge on Cleveland in week 1. I am assuming we'd run our stuff once the season starts? If we need the element of surprise to beat the Browns week 1, we have big problems.
