JP, Bish, and Cakes lay out the case for why Jayden Daniels needs live reps in preseason games before Week 1.
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00:00This kind of goes along my lines of what we were talking about with Paul Skeens, more
00:05wussification.
00:06Now, preseason doesn't matter.
00:09And I always kind of like college football that there's no college football preseason
00:13other than some teams start off with just guaranteed winners, but other teams start
00:21off with tough matchups in week one, but you don't have a preseason.
00:24They just get going, right?
00:26Right.
00:27They set up on their own and then they get going with real games.
00:33But I think that it's good to see some of these guys find a rhythm.
00:39I don't think it's important for a vet necessarily who's been with the team for a while to get
00:45reps in preseason because they've been doing it for a while.
00:49If you've been with the team for years, but a young guy who's got no NFL reps, I'm sorry.
00:57I want to see him in the preseason.
00:58I'm okay with limiting him in the preseason, but as far as just completely bubble wrapping
01:03him and not playing him at all until the opener in Tampa, I, I need to see him take at least
01:10a few series with who are going to be the starters.
01:13If you want to take them out after a series or two, so be it.
01:17But I don't think you can just simulate real week one game action in training camp and
01:24just hope it translates to week one.
01:28If it's a 10 year vet and he's been through the preseason a bunch of times, it's one thing,
01:32but I think rookies have to see live action against defenses that he's never seen before.
01:38I, you know, I don't know where Theismann stands on the veterans playing preseason,
01:45but, and I agree with you, if you're going to, if you're going to have, you know, your
01:49backups in, in the second quarter, all right, then you take them out.
01:53I think he's got to face live action and I would think commander's fans would like to
01:56see him in preseason.
01:57Absolutely.
01:58And look, if you, if you put them out there for the first series and it just, it's a,
02:02it's a fire drill and it's not going well and the offensive line is just, just letting
02:06in pressure after pressure and he's under complete duress, well then maybe you make
02:11a move.
02:12Then you're Dan Quinn, you huddle with cliff and the offensive line coach, and you try
02:16to figure out what you do from there.
02:18But I just, I can't agree with Joe T here where you just, where you just run them through
02:24the paces during the practices, during scrimmages, but during the preseason games, he's not going
02:28to get any sort of exposure to that.
02:31I feel like that's.