Winston T. Boogie
Senior HTF Member
Dheiner said:
I don't want to come across as I am whining about injuries, I do believe it is part of the game and a team if they want to be successful needs to learn to overcome losing players to injury. I also don't have an issue with preseason games but I don't think they need 4 of them. If you are talking about timing between QBs and WRs that really is worked out in practice. Timing is the thing you can get down in practice what is missing in practice is you are not going to get hit at full speed by an opposing player that is attempting to clean your clock or knock the ball loose. Mainly the game experience is just to get used to speed of play and getting hit. Most veteran players don't even play the majority of the preseason and many of them do everything they can to avoid being on the field in any preseason game. We do get crappy play the first two to three weeks of the season because this is really when the starting rosters are on the field for more than a few series and players acclimate to playing 4 quarters of football again. Basically, it takes until week 4 of the regular season before teams really are up to speed and playing well. The first month of the season is when the veterans and starters actually get to gel and come together and playing a few series in the preseason does not improve or speed up this transition. Players will talk about speed of the game and getting used to getting hit again as the biggest aspects of playing in a preseason game. Also just getting back the awareness you need on the football field when there are 11 other guys on it that want to knock you out.
Mainly other than veteran guys like Sam Bradford, who really needs to get back on the field because he was off it for so long, most veteran players get nothing out of preseason. It's just for the coaches to sort out the back end of the roster and see who they might want to bring back for the practice squad or look for players to bring back if they lose a guy to injury.
