Especially when there are guys on the other team who may not ever play an actual down of real NFL football trying to make a name for themselves by taking down your future star running back however they can. That's a recipe for disaster - or injury, at least.
And Sean McVay, who most believe is a better HC than Andy Reid nowadays, does not play his starters. The Rams are massive SB favorite btw.
14 touches in a half for a preseason game is asinine, dude. I wonder if Love even had that many in a half back at ND.
The best ground is to not play the starters.
Yeah, he averaged 19 touches per game his final year at ND (carries and catches combined).
Oh, My-lanta.
In a full game or just a half?
I don't see the difference between 14 touches in a half and 14 touches in a game. It is still 14 touches.
Dawg, c’mon, lol. You are so much smarter than this.
What's to say they don't go into game one of the real season and come out with the same injury? I guess then it is okay because they got hurt in a game that counted? If you can't play a series or two of contact football without getting injured...maybe you're just injury prone...
I feel like we will disagree here, but does it matter? 14 touches is 14 touches.
I guess I am not. I don't see a significant difference between two quarters and a full game in terms of workload dispersal and impact on a professional athlete. Especially when it wasn't even a full games workload in total.
I’m not sure why risk management should be a challenging concept. There’s little to no upside in playing a critical RB in the preseason compared to the potential risk of a high ankle sprain derailing the season.
I agree with this but I also respect some NFL coaches who disagree.
Love me some nonsensical hypotheticals. Just stick to entertaining 602 & yourself about Kyler & the Minnesota Vikings.
On the morning show they alluded to Mike LaFleur having said something about running backs and how you couldn't evaluate them based on training camp because they don't take any hits. So, it sounds like he wanted to see how his running backs played in a game setting rather than in a touch football setting. I can understand that, but still think he played Love too much.
Yes, it matters. Wear & Tear is not a real thing to you? If I have very capable backup RB, why would I force-feed my starting RB 14 times in one half & instead balancing it out a little bit more so my starting RB can come back in the 2nd half with less pain & read on them?
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At a position that has to be able to endure wear and tear, it doesn't really matter as much to me. I would rather him get 14 touches in less snaps than playing more snaps to get those touches. To me, that is risk management. I don't think 14 touches was the reason he got hurt. I think getting rookies looks in the preseason is helpful. If this was year 2, I would have preferred he didn't play at all, but that is a coachnig philosophy disagreement.
