YES, Jayden Daniels SHOULD play in the preseason!

JP, Bish, and Cakes lay out the case for why Jayden Daniels needs live reps in preseason games before Week 1.

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00:00This kind of goes along my lines of what we were talking about with Paul Skeens, more

00:05wussification.

00:06Now, preseason doesn't matter.

00:09And I always kind of like college football that there's no college football preseason

00:13other than some teams start off with just guaranteed winners, but other teams start

00:21off with tough matchups in week one, but you don't have a preseason.

00:24They just get going, right?

00:26Right.

00:27They set up on their own and then they get going with real games.

00:33But I think that it's good to see some of these guys find a rhythm.

00:39I don't think it's important for a vet necessarily who's been with the team for a while to get

00:45reps in preseason because they've been doing it for a while.

00:49If you've been with the team for years, but a young guy who's got no NFL reps, I'm sorry.

00:57I want to see him in the preseason.

00:58I'm okay with limiting him in the preseason, but as far as just completely bubble wrapping

01:03him and not playing him at all until the opener in Tampa, I, I need to see him take at least

01:10a few series with who are going to be the starters.

01:13If you want to take them out after a series or two, so be it.

01:17But I don't think you can just simulate real week one game action in training camp and

01:24just hope it translates to week one.

01:28If it's a 10 year vet and he's been through the preseason a bunch of times, it's one thing,

01:32but I think rookies have to see live action against defenses that he's never seen before.

01:38I, you know, I don't know where Theismann stands on the veterans playing preseason,

01:45but, and I agree with you, if you're going to, if you're going to have, you know, your

01:49backups in, in the second quarter, all right, then you take them out.

01:53I think he's got to face live action and I would think commander's fans would like to

01:56see him in preseason.

01:57Absolutely.

01:58And look, if you, if you put them out there for the first series and it just, it's a,

02:02it's a fire drill and it's not going well and the offensive line is just, just letting

02:06in pressure after pressure and he's under complete duress, well then maybe you make

02:11a move.

02:12Then you're Dan Quinn, you huddle with cliff and the offensive line coach, and you try

02:16to figure out what you do from there.

02:18But I just, I can't agree with Joe T here where you just, where you just run them through

02:24the paces during the practices, during scrimmages, but during the preseason games, he's not going

02:28to get any sort of exposure to that.

02:31I feel like that's.