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 Well, the offense does the same thing as the D's, they go away from their game plans too (Philly is outrushing Jacksonville by over 130 yards a game for example).  Brady, in week 2 of the pre-season in 2007 had an awful game, barely 50% completions, 2 picks and a fumble in a half of play.   The 2007 Pats offense was pretty decent come regular season though. 

Last year Kurt Warner jersey had a 47 QB rating in the pre-season.  His final pre-season numbers were 52% completions, 3 INT's, 3 fumbles, 0 TD's, making him the worst starting QB in the league in pre-season.  Their offense scored 2 FG's and one TD in the four pre-season games with Warner at QB. 

ARi Drives with Warner

Week 1 Punt, Punt
Week 2 (opening 89 yard return) 5 yard drive for a FG,  punt, INT, fumble leading to punt,
Week 3 Fumble, red zone fumble that kills drive and leads to FG, Fumble returned for TD, 20 yd TD run, INT. (vs. the same Packers starters he played in the playoffs)
Week 4 Punt, Punt, INT

Eli Manning looked pretty bad last year (had a 9-21 game, and a game with 1 fumble, no scores in the two middle pre-season games) and had his best season. 

Hasselbeck had his best pre-season of his last 5 years last year, followed by his worst regular season.

Chris Johnson had a 3.1 yard a carry average, no TD's and no big plays last pre-season.  Just 1 catch in 4 games to boot. 

MJD, under 3 yards a carry, and didn't get close to the end zone in pre-season.

Thomas Jones, 2.5 a carry.  The two games he carried the most he had 21 carries for 29 yards.  He looked done. 

Jay Cutler was nearly perfect (mistake free) in his two main pre-season games.  Kyle Orton was an INT machine in pre-season last year.  Didn't hit double digit INT's till week 17 last year though.

Welker had 1 catch last pre-season but led the league there in the regular season.  Vernon Davis didn't get close to the end zone in pre-season (led the league in rec TD's though)

Jamarcus Russell was one of the most accurate QB's in the 09 pre-season.  Completed at least 63% of his passes in every game and didn't throw a single pick

Brady Quinn was right up there with him with a 68% completion percentage in the pre-season. 


In 2009 the Jets had the best offense in the pre-season (but a bottom 5 D).  The wholesale Colts jersey and the Cards were both in the bottom 3 offenses.  The Raiders offense was as good as the Chargers (cheap Raiders jerseys cored 79 points, Chargers scored 81), Cowboys D was much worse than Detroit's (Dallas finished 2nd, Det 32nd)....

Could go on all day on this.   In the end, pre-season just doesn't show much outside of what you maybe see on actual coaches film.  A nice WR block, a good cut on a route, a linemen maintaining gap control, a backup stepping up.   


The year that I saw the most dominating team in the pre-season (undefeated Detroit with the best D in the league and an unstoppable offense) go 0-16 in the following regular season is when I stopped giving a crap about the pre-season meaning anything