McVay quote on the subject from [
www.therams.com] :
"That's the goal that we're really hunting up," McVay said. "You can get good competitive work, a lot of situational stuff where we can kind of manipulate it that sometimes doesn't always unfold the way that you'd like ideally offensively and defensively. You'll end up accumulating over 90 reps over the course of a couple days or almost a hundred reps if you just bucket it out. That'll be really beneficial to us and then we'll be able to start our Buffalo prep after that."Another thought on the matter from [
www.the33rdteam.com] :
Having joint practices creates a perfect world. It gives you enough reps to replicate the fourth preseason game, and it gives them to the right people. You don’t have to risk them in a game where, of course, everyone’s going full bore, and injuries can occur.Finally, this from an article titled "Bill Belichick explained why joint practices can be more valuable than preseason games" [
www.boston.com] :
Asked a follow-up question about if he thinks joint practices can have as big of an impact as preseason games, Belichick had a strong response.
“In some respects you get a lot more out of them,” he replied.
“We can set up a lot more situations that aren’t going to come up in preseason games with the players who are most likely going to be playing them,” said Belichick. “That will be a good place to start. Certainly in a preseason game you don’t get individual one-on-ones or two-on-twos, or those kind of individual match-ups that show up in a practice session. There are a lot of differences between practices and games. We could be here all day talking about that.”
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