... enjoyable week of preseason games, as teams normally run their first-teamers the most in these contests.

But at this point, my attitude toward exhibition football has soured. Saying that this is the "best week of the preseason" is like determining which bowl of unsweetened, store-brand rice puffs cereal is best: The competition is pretty lackluster, you tire of the action about partway through, and it just leaves you wanting the real thing all the more.

Geez, and all this is coming from the kid who was bouncing of the walls as the Falcons got set to take on the Lions in Preseason Week One. It's just that this substitute leaves me wanting regular season ball, the stuff with importance, all the more.

That being said, ...

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