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Opponent Watch 2023: Week 1

About Last Week I am in a quandary. A quarry quandary, if you will. Every year since at least 2015, we have designated a team as The Rock following the games of Week 1. The one year we failed to do so was 2020. And we saw how that went. This is serious business. The Rock has never had a formal definition or set of criteria. It’s a vibes thing. It is not given to worst team. It is given to the most Rock team. In a football sense, it’s typically been a team that plays decent defense and minimal offense. It goes to a team that feels like it has the potential to cause some damage, but stubbornly resists any efforts to move in that direction. It’s going to stay exactly where it is, and there’s nothing you can do about it. The Rock itself is a boulder in Mamallapuram on the southeast coast of India near Chennai. Its original name was Vaan Irai Kal (Tamil for “Stone of the Sky Gods”), but in 1969 Indira Gandhi gave it the name for which it is better known: “Krishna’s Butterbal ....

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