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We Need To Stop Putting So Much Stock In Spring Football

Seriously. We need to have a chat about how we approach Spring Football in general as fans.

Spring Football is one of my favorite times of the year. It's just starting to heat up to that near perfect summer temperature, everything is blooming (including my allergies), and high schools and colleges all around the grand ol' US of A are strapping up into full pads and beating up on each other for around 3 weeks. This is a time-honored tradition around modern football, and just like many things in football, we all love overreacting to it. Nearly every service that covers football as a whole has a Heisman prediction article up around the time that spring football ends, teams rise and fall in power rankings, and we judge players and coaches based on how a glorified practice goes.