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I was at the Seattle game and really not much different than I expected.

My one note though, is that their play-action rollout is an unbelievable play especially when teams are keyed in on Tomlinson. Wide open all 3 times I saw them run it.

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One thing I noticed was a pretty striking difference in intensity in this first preseason game compared with last year's game against Green Bay. Last year, Rivers has something to prove, the coaching staff and management were at each others throats, and most of the front seven were cycling off some powerful performance enhancing drugs [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]. Seriously, it was quite apparent that this team was ready to explode out of the gates.

This year, I like that they didn't blitz, didn't do much of anything, they just got their work in and got off the field in once piece. Merriman no longer wears the "lights out" gear, he doesn't want the nicknames or any of that flash. I think that playoff loss really hurt, and these guys know when they have to peak.