Title: Navigating the Preseason Dynamics: Evaluating Players and Balancing Opportunities

You have a preseason where young buck plays really good. Veteran guy maybe gets banged up a little bit, but he would be able to make it back into the game. How do you balance playing a rookie too early? Well, I mean, first of all, I don’t think you really know how anybody’s playing in preseason. I mean, especially at the quarterback position. The schemes are so simple on the other side of the ball, generally speaking, for the most part, you’re running very basic schemes. You’re trying to evaluate your players, trying to get them to play the good fundamentals that they know how to play. You’re not disguising things to I’m out of preseason, sale. This guy’s really playing good. That guy’s really playing good. I wouldn’t put my stock in that at all. I put more stock in what they’re doing in practice. And let’s see what happens in the first three or four regular season games when the opponents specifically attack certain players based on what they think they can and can’t get on them. And let’s see how they’re playing that.