Preseason Finale Takeaways
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00:00 Last but not least, do you have any preseason, week three,
00:04 huge takeaways from around the league?
00:06 - Yeah, I think the argument, and it's never gonna go away,
00:10 should we protect guys in bubble wrap,
00:13 or do they need to get their experience?
00:15 And Mike Tomlin, the Steelers head coach,
00:17 said something that I think Bill Parcells once said too.
00:20 You know, before you box, you gotta spar.
00:22 And I get the analogy, except, as I'll point out,
00:26 with all due respect to the coaches
00:28 who've decided to play their starters,
00:30 unlike the Cowboys and McCarthy.
00:32 The Bills played starters.
00:34 Again, even in the last game, Josh Allen, Diggs,
00:36 all playing.
00:37 Sparring is against your friend with headgear on.
00:43 This has nothing to do with sparring.
00:46 These are real live people trying to knock your block off.
00:49 Additionally, as I've said many times
00:50 about sitting out the preseason,
00:52 'cause we've gotta knock off the rust,
00:54 I gotta feel what it's like to get hit,
00:55 and I gotta feel the speed of the game.
00:57 So Dak Prescott should play three snaps
01:00 in a preseason game, which is the kind of thing
01:02 that Mahomes and Josh Allen have done.
01:05 Aaron Rodgers, can't he just get the speed of the game
01:09 and be sparring to boxing in the first three plays
01:11 of the regular season, thus avoiding injury?
01:14 So I'm not saying there's an automatically wrong idea here,
01:17 but there's certainly not an automatically right one
01:19 that says you played Josh Allen.
01:21 That is not automatically right,
01:23 that you played Dak Prescott.
01:25 That's not automatically right.
01:27 It could be a little different with Sam Howell
01:29 in Washington, that's a little different.
01:30 It's a little different with Desmond Ritter in Atlanta.
01:34 It's certainly different with C.J. Stroud.
01:36 He needs all the work he can get.
01:38 But Dak Prescott does not need three snaps
01:41 so he can get loose for the regular season.
01:43 It's ridiculous to me.
01:44 - Good point, Fish.
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