Credit to Paul Guenther

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(11-10-2016, 10:22 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Or is he suggesting a stupid move based on nothing but desperation?

If you give young players snaps when they have done nothing to earn them then they will have no motivation to work hard in practice.

The fact is that none of us have seen anything to suggest that the guys in the bench are better than the guys playing.  And if they are not better then the team will just get worse by playing them.

Almost all of what you said is just generally well known.  Yes, playing bench players when they are not better than starters will not help over the long run.  If you give young players snaps when they have done nothing to earn them will not motivate them to work harder.  But that article does nothing to suggest that this is what Guenther is doing.  It suggests that if the veterans are not playing the way they are expected to play, they will not be given playing time automatically, in other words making them feel the pressure of their lack of performance.  And I would trust what Paul Guenther sees in practice over what "none of us has seen", since we don't actually get to "see" what happens in practice nor the day to day work inside the team.