(08-14-2019, 07:28 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(08-14-2019, 09:16 AM)JagFan81 Wrote: Thanks Bullseye, I get where Marrone is coming from, especially after the last 48/72hrs.

We seem to be focusing on just getting as many healthy guys to week 1 as we can. The play them/rest them argument will have hindsight in a few weeks!!! I get the logic but the first 7 games are tough. Theres healthy and football healthy.

Just seems a real change from that first Marrone training camp. 4 straight days of pads work in the heat.

It is a real change, but a couple of things in fairness to Marrone:

1.  Last year may have been an unprecedented degree of injuries in Marrone's career.  I don't think I've ever seen a Jaguars team that wound up missing four out of five starting OL by season's end...playing with the 4th LT-a guy who wasn't even on the team until mid season.

2.  There is a recent and not so recent precedent supporting such an approach.  Just last year, the Rams played few if any starters throughout last year's preseason, and it helped propel them to the Super Bowl.  Further back in the early 1990s, Bills' coach Marv Levy was notorious for not taking preseason seriously in terms of playing his starters.  That approach helped his team go to four straight Super Bowls.

Under normal circumstances I'd want the starters to have at least a series a week in the preseason.  But given how last year unfolded, and the injuries from which a lot of the players are returning, I don't blame Marrone for his approach.  In fact, you could argue his hand was forced to some degree.

I completely agree. Plus when you factor in Marrone may be gone if we have a bad season, I get him wanting to focus on just those 16 and giving himself the best shot at winning them.

Last years injuries were crazy. O Line is so important and when new guys are walking in on a Monday and playing on Sunday, you know somethings seriously wrong.

I think its worth a try even though I'd like a many games as possible, we would only get a Q tonight anyway. The rest/play them both have fors and against, theres not a right and wrong way. 

And say Foles went down tonight, everyone would be going crazy for playing him.

Who'd be a HC??!!

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