DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Pure Football Forum This Week

This is the most important week of the offseason it seems - we NEED to get a lot out of this for our starters

We seem resigned to not playing them in the preseason games, so we must get things squared away during these practices

Agreed.

Hopefully it's an intense week of work.

Nothing simulates the play of a game like the game itself. This nonsense of not playing starters is ridiculously stupid. Watson has played...what...12-14 games in 3 years. He needs to play in every pre-season game...even if for one series. I fear we are going to look unprepared (AGAIN) for the start of the season.

At the start of last season the Browns beat the Bengals 24-3 in the first game. Lost a close game with the Steelers in the second game and beat the Titans 27-3 in the third game.

My initial hypothesis was that Watson is a slow starter and sensitive to what people think so they didn’t want to put him in a preseason game, perform poorly against backups and vanilla schemes, and crush his confidence.

Now that he’s playing the last game I guess my theory is bunk.

In general I don’t care about preseason games. Would like to see intensity in practice. I’ve never seen so much 7-on-7 footage in my life.

Bottom line is that they want to be careful with him and limit the chances of him getting hurt in the pre season.

Agreed GM

This was from the Athletic on the Niners canceling their joint practice:


This isn’t a Stefanski thing, other coaches have the same philosophy.