Is the "rest vs rust" argument settled?

[Bear Pand]

That's what it sounds like. You blame the Colts playoff losses on the bye weeks and rest. You credit their Super Bowl run to their full season of playing hard to the end and not resting their starters.

Guess it's that simple huh.

You keep trying to simplify everything to black and white. It's just as lame as the people who yelled "See that's why you rest the starters" when Welker went down.

Caldwell made them go 1s v 1s most of the week and asked them to practice hard instead of going the Dungy approach and thinking Bye weeks are for rest and not to work on anything . I don't think rust is such a big factor in our losses but it never helps to change things up if it's not working [which it wasn't] . Props to Caldwell for seeing where Dungy went wrong

yeah under Dungy Manning and Clark would be off on vacation fishing and shit during bye weeks. I don't know how much but that combined mentality of Dungy and Polian did hurt Indy to some extent. I'm just glad we have Caldwell now who helps balance things out.

[Tailback U]

You keep trying to simplify everything to black and white. It's just as lame as the people who yelled "See that's why you rest the starters" when Welker went down.

No, I simplify everything to X's and O's.

[Fox1994]

It's an any given sunday type thing. In any case, I'm excited for next weekend's matchups. What happens if the Saints blowout/shut-out the Vikings (highly unlikely) or the Jets beat the Colts (also highly unlikely).

The Jets seem to be making quite a thing of backing into the playoffs, as Mark Sanchez already has more playoff wins than Tony Romo and as many as Drew Brees (he's not responsible, but I thought that would be funny to mention).

Then what, though? Do we say the Saints have a great defense? Is the Vikings defense no longer stellar? Is Manning still a choke-artist? Because if he beats the Jets, we all know there will be endless talk about how he is the undisputed greatest ever, all he has to do is beat Favre/Brees...

Any given sunday, anything can happen. Rest, rust, whatever...

[FedEx227]

It's bullshit.

So is regular season momentum. Chargers and the Cowboys were the hottest teams in the league and they both looked like shit today.

It's all nonsense.

Right on the money. There isn't a bigger unprovable misconception than momentum. Means absolutely nothing.

[Colonel Angus]

I think it really depends on coaching. If you looked at Dallas right out of the gate today, there was NO energy in that team. Minnesota was the opposite, but I think it really came from feeding off the energy of the crowd. Home field advantage played a big part in the games this weekend, save for the Jets game. Maybe it's the domes?

But anyways Dallas and Arizona just looked lethargic. Maybe the coaches didn't get them mentally ready to play in those hostile environments?