10-30-2018, 04:45 AM
(10-30-2018, 01:29 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: How does preseason get a player into shape more? Because players are chasing him? You're not too bright.
That might make sense, except starters don't play into the fourth quarter in any game and teams aren't going to risk anything big with their star players.
Yes, it might be different than practice, but these guys have been playing football for how many years? 10? 15? You really think they need a meaningless preseason game to get into season mode and get their blood going?
It might be valuable for some, but some players can just come in and turn it on. Take last year, in the first game, he only 32 yards, but they also only gave him 10 carries, but then he had 87 against the Vikings, a top five rushing defense (granted only 3.2 YPC), 4.1 against the Bears and Ravens, both of whom were in the top half of the league in defensive YPCA, and Bell finished in the top ten in YPC among players with at least 200 carries and top 5 in players with 250 carries.
As far as your hit the hole, route timing, all that, some players, especially pros, don't need that practice because they've been doing it their entire lives. I played one down of receiver my entire life, which was my freshmen year and caught a touchdown passes, so, my sophomore year, the day of the wreck, they decided to play me at receiver too (I had only been a DB), and we had a practice that morning and I was running routes and catching passes from our QB like we were Division I college players, and it was just because I had that ability in me, even though I had never done it before. But you think Bell, who has been doing this all his life, can't come in and flip a switch?
Teams practice to get in rhythm and to get in sync with each other, as well as to get plays down, which a running back really doesn't need because he's not really running routes with the QB which he would need to be in rhythm with him and he's not on the line blocking, so he doesn't need to be in sync with his other linemen on blocking schemes. He's not on defense, so he really wouldn't need to know where his teammates would be or what they could do, or how they'd be running schemes and things, so preseason is probably the least important for running backs and kickers.
Preseason games helps players get into shape, because there is ACTUAL CONTACT with other players. You can get into football shape simply by running drills by yourself in a gym. How hard is this for you to understand? The reason Bell started out so poorly was because he wasn't in the preseason playing any games. You also don't have to play all 4 quarters to use the preseason to get into shape. And you say I'm not bright? I'm so bright, I'm like the sun compared to you. If he would have been playing in the preseason games like the other players he would have a hell of a lot more touches and yards against the Browns. He was ineffective against the Browns. The Bears were the same way. and contrary to your stats the Bears were 22nd against the run last year. He would have had way more than that if he was in football shape. Baltimore was 18th against the run and the Vikings were 31st against the run, not top 5. Like I said I don't know where you get your stats from, probably the same place you get the "Players can work out by themselves in the gym, and be in just as much football shape, than if they played preseason games" from, you just pull them out of your ***. You see I deal in cold hard facts. I go straight to the source and go to nfl.com and get them from here. http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?seasonType=REG&offensiveStatisticCategory=null&d-447263-n=1&d-447263-o=2&d-447263-p=1&d-447263-s=RUSHING_YARDS&tabSeq=2&season=2017&role=OPP&Submit=Go&archive=true&conference=null&defensiveStatisticCategory=RUSHING&qualified=false
Now let's see how you try and spin your way out of this losing argument.
