(08-10-2024, 06:03 PM)Jag149 Wrote: I look at practice as defcon 5 hitting.  They are your teammates after all. Preseason beginning tonight is defcon 4.  the first half of the season defon3, last half 2 and playoffs 1.  I have listened to all the "talking heads and coach speak" as they sell me on the players we have. Now is the time for the selling to stop the players show us.  I have no idea what we have, but it will be interesting finding out....

Pretty good way of looking at it. 

I don't expect to learn much from this scrimmage. 

I figure the offense won't show their hand much, the defense will keep their bag of tricks mostly unveiled, and even the new kickoff teams will be feeling it out rather than opening up their crate of smoke and mirrors.

Best we can truly hope for is to see some rookies and new signings make individual plays when the ball comes their way. And of course it would be good to see efficient communication from the starting units.

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