This preseason has been really difficult to evaluate. Our starters barely started, our 2's have played against starters, and the camp fodder guys got extensive looks for the entire preseason game. I read somewhere that Marrone was giving more practice time to the starters. He wanted them to play more in a controlled environment. This means two things: Our starters should be getting more work in during the week (which hopefully translates into being more prepared and healthy for the regular season, and our backups are not getting as many reps during the week (which hopefully explains their difficulties this preseason). I have no idea what to expect this season, but this has been an interesting approach by the coaching staff, to say the least. I would expect the ones to have some rust to knock off the first couple weeks, but maybe they will understand the systems better from having more practices. Maybe they'll be garbage. I certainly can't tell.

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