Bye weeks allow teams to do a whole host of things they don’t get to do in a regular week, and they afford us writers with a little more leeway as to when things are due/published (at least I think that’s true, maybe don’t tell JPinIC). Either way, I had a busy weekend of not watching football, which meant that getting around to writing all of this down (without a hard deadline) slipped down the priority list a bit.
As I said earlier, bye weeks allow teams to recover, work new things into the game plan on either side of the ball and, maybe most importantly, they give injured/hurt players time to recover from things like concussions (Kamari and Leshon – at least I think).