Ah, the spring ‘game,’ the saddest oasis in the already sad desert of nine months sans football.
Spring games are already dangerous for fans and pundits - an odd confection of small sample size, weird lineup combinations, and general conservatism. But this year’s spring game was perhaps the least insightful I’ve ever kinda-sorta-seen. Consider:
- Spring practice has been closed to the media, meaning fans have no real sense of which players they should be keeping an eye on, which players have been getting reps where, etc.
- The ‘game’ was even less of a game than usual, a short collection of 11 v.