as the well known board paranoid, I can't help but think this fumbling goon will attack Belichick and try some more of his ***headed sanctions if BB uses the 2nd game as this year's de facto third exhibition game, and just runs the scrubs out there for the entirety of the third and fourth games. He'll dream up some idiotic crap like "insult to the integrity of the game" or "flaunting my direct orders prohibiting the deliberate throwing of preseason games" thereby opening up another round of "Gate!!!!" hysteria.
I cannot believe anybody trusts this goon.
and you mention "weird schedule", Supa...why is there this "weird schedule"? The strike is settled, everything is back to normal, the league is saved by "MIGHTY ROGERED!", "business as usual" he exclaims at every thrust of a microphone...oh wait, uh..and the Pats play three games within 225 hours...plus fly to England for that little Rogered "beauty" of a turd game. Why do the Patriots deserve all these "generosities"?