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There are more than not. However there has been success with both. Plus we have teams playing starters at different times. It’s not like the old 4 game schedule where almost all teams did it the same way. How would we feel if Bryce plays a lot of preseason and goes on IR? We might be rolling into the following year without any more answers and be in the same situation. Injuries affect us more than most teams as well because we have little to no depth at most positions. I definitely see both sides with our current situation. This debate will just keep going in circles because both sides have valid points.

Sam can be fine as long as he plays within the structure of the play. He never needs to go off script. If a play breaks down just tell him to throw it away. Baker is a solid QB IMO. Give him some playmakers and he will get them the ball and have the offense running well.

You are missing the point. You can have success either way. McVay just won without doing it and he did it early in his career. It took Reid a while to get his first one. So by this logic (which I don’t agree with) if you do it Reid’s way you start winning Super Bowls after decades of being a head coach vs a couple years. The point is you can’t mimic one coach 100% and expect the same results. The logic is just flawed. Different situations for different teams.

Mac is backing up Trevor in JAX

He is getting cut… and Milton is coming back down to Earth not playing against our 4th stringers.

I want to see Fields. I heard Pitt is working on his footwork to get him back to his OSU form. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40849171/justin-fields-adjust-footwork-pittsburgh-steelers

I think last year their DL crushed our OL, but they didn’t have Williams on the field this year which is a huge difference. We were missing one of our new guards and when the other went out, it sounds like it got ugly. Which is kind of why I understand limiting the starters on this particular team, but again I’m not sure there is a “right” way to do this. Just start getting some wins and we will care less about practice and preseason I suppose.

I delivered that top pick for this franchise. Without Jimmy there is no Carolina Cam!

This is kind of where I am at. Will it help to play our starters in the preseason? Sure it will help to a degree. Definitely not to the degree that some people are acting on here. Starters usually play limited snaps so maybe it affects our first drive or two of week 1 and that's a maybe. So there is a risk vs reward... I mean does anyone think if we played our starters more last year we would have some how had a better record? We are also one of the worst rosters when it comes to depth. This mean two things regarding preseason. The first is a major injury can greatly decrease play on the field for the regular season. The second is we really need to evaluate our depth for young promising players, and other teams castoffs. The best way to do this is to play the players fighting for spots to get an in game look at them.

Anything on Chuba?

Come on now. There is no need for this nonsense.

I'd be surprised if we are clicking that early regardless. Pleasantly surprised though!

Right but those couple extra reps the starters get can be useful but not as impactful as some people are making it out to be. Like last year for example, we could have played Bryce all 3 games all series and I truly don’t believe it changes our season unless he got hurt. Plus most of these guys have played under bright lights and big crowds before. High school I’m sure it’s hitting different.

I don't think it's useless. I think it's as useful as a joint practice. One is just televised and presented more as an actual game. The number of snaps most starters get in the preseason is usually pretty low. I do think it doesn't mean anything when it comes to the regular season. If we went 3-0 in the preseason I would be excited, but I wouldn't change my record prediction of 6 wins being a good season. If we go 0-3 I still probably have the same expectations.

Conservative scrimmages where starters can be playing against players that might not make a team. The whole 3 game preseason schedule changed it up. I doubt they will get rid of them thought because they can sell tickets for a scrimmage.

They did the opposite yesterday. Social media is always reactive and dumb about this stuff.

This is why we need to keep practicing this. A lot of deep passes are timing/chemistry. I hope we keep pressing and practicing it even if it leads to turnovers in practice.

The only people I see getting criticized are ones who overreacted to the first practice. We looked bad one practice and one decent one (on offense). Some people are genuinely irritated at this? It’s just practice. It’s good we looked decent but it means nothing until the regular season starts. If we light up the next preseason game it still means nothing. The same goes for vice versa.

He said they get more out of joint practices vs PREseason games. Said preseason was more "vanilla" than joint practices. Regular season game time matters the most no doubt.

We had a bad practice and our season was already over yesterday. We have a decent one today and people are mocking fans for being excited about practice. Man you can't even make this stuff up.

Just the QB right? Chuba looked like he got hit pretty hard NM you were talking about Bryce specifically

I'm just replaying to what is being reported by the people there. I'm sorry if that bothers you.

Hopefully our offense can build on this. We were missing our best weapon in Johnson on offense as well. Still not an actual game, but hopefully it will build some confidence.

Bryce Young slings a 30ish yard out route throw to Johnny Mingo to sideline. Mingo beat DJ Reed by a couple steps for the big gain in 11s. -Mike Kaye

Thanks @Icege and @Jackie Lee for the updates. A lot of people were wanting to see how we handled the Jets this year vs last. Day 1 looks like a decent showing. Hopefully we can build on this. Hot Take -I prefer not making hot takes and reading what the mods are adding