NFL Preseason Week 1 Recap + NFC West Division Preview

But we have our big day on our pod today, because we have NFC West preview day, which we'll get into in a little bit.

But let's talk about what we saw from over the weekend that was in the NFL preseason.

And I guess I wanna start off, too, 'cause y- you are a trained eye.

You are a g- former general manager.

You've been in it.

Us, as fans, we're just watching, hoping to take away something positive.

What should we be taking away from these preseason games? 'Cause you mentioned, A, it's important to stay healthy and to get through that okay, but what should we actually be taking away? 'Cause the results of the games don't matter, but it still is football and there's still stuff that is important that's happening even though these games don't count in the win-loss column.

Yeah.

So, uh, n- number one for me, I always want to look at the bottom half of the roster, the, the, you know, the, the young players.

So you look at all the, the draft choices, all the rookie free agents, all the young players.

And then you have your pro guys basically will, will follow the teams and give you a list of guys that might be available at the, at the 53 cut.

So, 'cause you're always trying to get ready for that, so you're evaluating those guys.

You're watching every preseason game and every game tape and evaluating everybody.

But for your own team, basically what you're looking at is, number one, you wanna stay healthy.

Number two, you wanna see execution of your first team offense, first team defense, special teams.

You wanna make sure that they're sharp.

If they are sharp, don't leave them in long.

Bring them out, put the younger players in, and evaluate the young guys in a special...

I think this first week, as we start talking, we're gonna find out this is about the young quarterbacks.

There are a lot of young quarterbacks in this league that played.

A lot of them really looked pretty decent, and I think that that's what this weekend was about, is getting those young quarterbacks time, seeing how they go.

Play your young players.

Cross your fingers, hope you stay healthy.