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I thought it was a rough game until I considered:
- Short week/long trip.
- VERY early subbing.
- Weirdo crowd.
- The numerous unexpected scores today.
The final point being the biggest... you can never be sure what will happen in the NFL. The Pats seemed to play down to the Bucs a bit today.
After that game I watched the Dolphins/Saints game and was horrified that we have to play both of those fairly beastly teams this year (totaling 3 of our remaining games). A lot of good will come from this game, and thankfully we have smaller/easier questions than many of the teams that played today.
Is 35-7 rough by Canadian standards? Sometimes teams look beastly because of who they've played or who they are playing. Miami coming off its bye set NO, an NFC team, up. To it's credit NO adjusted and survived. Bill has reams of great film to analyze.
Facing ofer teams in back to back weeks it's hard not to play down a little. And frankly Tampa came to play even if they were overmatched. Something Tennessee didn't do.