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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joe Nor Cal Packer" data-source="post: 620836" data-attributes="member: 9805">YYeah I think PS is most important to the guys trying to make the team and the coaches looking at them.  I's hard for a fan to divine the importance, if any, of how good the team will be come the start of the season based on PS results.And I was wondering and would like some views on this - do the first team guys, when they play, treat thesse games as "pro-bowl" like, meaning the effort is maybe 50% of a regular season game?  Obviously this wouldn't be true of Jordy - his play was at regular game speed and regular game efforrt.  The great ones usually only know how to play one way.  With comments that PS games are meaningless for the starters, wouldn't most of them be better off playing with a lot less drive?  And the offense always has a slight advantage in that it knows for sure what the play is.  The defense has to read it and adjust if it's another call.  Why bother when the added effort could result in injury?  So I can almost see this theory, if you want to call it that, applying more to the D.Anyway I'm no more concerned for this D than I have been for any other version.  Some exceptions - 1) the play of Casey Hayward.  He plays as if he's a lock for that starting CB across from Shields.  I'm not so sure.  2) At a position that one would think would benefit from the competition, ILB, no one seems to be stepping up (contrast with the competition at DB, where Rollins and Gunter are playing well, and I think Randall but haven't really watched him that closely.)I think the loss of Nelson will be best compensated by improved play from the D and STs'.   But I don't see much to suggest that will be the case.</blockquote>

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