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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 738103" data-attributes="member: 7261">My "early" concerns with this team are the same we have seen over the last several seasons.  Things that could end up costing us games that we need to gain home field advantage:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Offense not in its groove just yet, "they will figure it out."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Injuries forcing unproven developmental kind of guys to play.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Not seeing anything too impressive from the 1-3 year guys (except Clark).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Defense shows signs of looking good against average to below average offenses, can't stop an above average offense.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Absolutely nothing special about the special teams.</li> </ol>Sure, we are only 2 games in, but some of the same tell tale signs that might prevent the Packers from getting out to a "fast start" are there.  Fortunately, the schedule making gods were kind to us and gave us two mediocre teams to face the next 2 games.  I just hope MM and company view these next 2 games as "must wins" and "must fix things in all facets of the game."  Otherwise, we may be looking at a repeat of the past seasons.....Good team, mainly because of AR carrying it, but not good enough to get to a Super Bowl and the excuses once again will be "bad beat on injuries and the young guys didn't progress as much as we thought they would."</blockquote>

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