None of them had ever been through it. They didn't mentally know what it was going to do and they certainly didn't know physically what it was going to do. The team played roughly the equivalent of 3-4 more games worth of plays. They needed to heal.

Bronco and Anae both addressed the need for added depth as a result of their first year in this system. The game doesn't operate in a vacuum. GFGH had second and third order effects that forced adjustments. When you are building the airplane if flight, you learn a few things in the process. Let's see how this year looks. About everyone in the two deep has now been there, done that. There won't be so many growing pains.