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pompey · 01-15-2008, 02:52 AM

Pre-Season

Kansas 17- Cleveland 14
Detroit 17 – Cleveland 23
Cleveland 17 – Denver 14
Cleveland 10 – Chicago 6

A reasonable pre-season with the defense looking outstanding. Of the 54 points we conceded, only 14 of them were from opposition drives of over 40 yards. The rest were gifted by a combination of fumbles, blocked punts and interceptions deep in our own half. In the game against Detroit we held the Lions to less than 2 yards per pass play although, to be fair, we’ll have sturdier challenges than Eric Hipple ahead of us.

Brian Sipe is going to start at QB in week 1 – he played ok in pre-season but has an alarming tendency to be sacked and fumble the ball. Let’s hope this is due to reserves in the line otherwise we could be in trouble.

The running game pounded away but we only averaged 4 ypc in one of the games – again hopefully playing the starters 100% might help this statistic.

We have no injury concerns as we go into the our first game of the season against defending champions and arch-rival the Pittsburgh Steelers.

01-15-2008, 02:52 AM	#3
pompey n00b Join Date: Mar 2006	Pre-Season Kansas 17- Cleveland 14 Detroit 17 – Cleveland 23 Cleveland 17 – Denver 14 Cleveland 10 – Chicago 6 A reasonable pre-season with the defense looking outstanding. Of the 54 points we conceded, only 14 of them were from opposition drives of over 40 yards. The rest were gifted by a combination of fumbles, blocked punts and interceptions deep in our own half. In the game against Detroit we held the Lions to less than 2 yards per pass play although, to be fair, we’ll have sturdier challenges than Eric Hipple ahead of us. Brian Sipe is going to start at QB in week 1 – he played ok in pre-season but has an alarming tendency to be sacked and fumble the ball. Let’s hope this is due to reserves in the line otherwise we could be in trouble. The running game pounded away but we only averaged 4 ypc in one of the games – again hopefully playing the starters 100% might help this statistic. We have no injury concerns as we go into the our first game of the season against defending champions and arch-rival the Pittsburgh Steelers.