There was no quarterback for more yards or touchdowns during the 2024 season of the NFL that the Cincinnati Bengals Cincinnati Burrow Field Marshal. He did what Burrow did to start the 2025 season even more notable on Thursday night: he actually played in a preseason exhibition.
“I think we have 15 repetitions tonight, so we are 15 better repetitions,” Burrow said after the Cincinnati preseason opening defeat against Philadelphia.
That matched how many pre -season snapshots Burrow had played in its five previous NFL seasons, according to Pro Football Focus.
The Bengals chose to play multiple headlines on Thursday because they were healthy and partly out of hope. After starting 0-2 in five of its last six seasons, the team seemed to agree with the criticism that trying to preserve the preseason health of its list had delayed its preparation for the regular season.
“They do not find their rhythm until week 5 of 6,” said former Campo de los Bengals, Boomer Esiason, last month. “It’s ridiculous.”
However, the change of the Bengals in preseason philosophy is not the norm in a league where the preseason is starting, but many of the most important names probably not. The Buffalo Bills Campo Marshal, Josh Allen, the MVP prevail, will not play at Saturday’s preseason opening against New York giants. Jayden Daniels of Washington, the rookie of the year of the NFL last season, was among multiple headlines that did not go out to the field in the first pre -season game on Thursday in New England. Baltimore’s field marshal, Lamar Jackson, has not played a preseason click in four years.
If the key and highly valued players appear in the preseason, it is often during the last possible game, and even during the time that the teams believe to a large extent that the opportunity to develop the rhythm is not large enough to overcome the risk of injuries.
Within the League, guilt or praise for the tendency to reduce abruptly or directly eliminate the pre -season workloads of headlines, it is often attributed to Los Angeles coach, Sean McVay, who began keeping his best players completely during the preseason in his second season in Los Angeles in 2018, although the Rams were starting a young quarterback.
Los Angeles advanced to the Super Bowl, and if the preseason break for the key players was connected at all to their game during the regular season, it was sufficient in an imitation league, where new ideas do not remain owned for a long time, so that others would adopt the same approach.
During the 2024 preseason, 14 teams did not play their alleged headline for a single blow during the first two weeks of the preseason, compared to a single team in 2014, according to a comparison made last year.
“We feel safe and comfortable with the approach we are adopting and we understand that it could not be for everyone,” McVay said in 2019.
“Everyone” included those who argue that the construction of the rhythm during the preseason is worth the risk of injuries.
“For me, having a sharp knife, I have to really sharpen,” said former Rams Marshal, Vince Ferragamo, Los Angeles Times in 2018. “Sometimes what you do in practice and then play in a game is a completely different aspect.”
McVay and the Rams may not have put their best players in ICE during the preseason games if it were not for the increase of another trend at the same time, since the franchises began more and more to organize “joint practices.” Its appeal arose from the opportunity for quality repetitions, but in a more controlled scrimog than a game. Although an initial defense could face the initial offensive of its opponent in a joint practice, the approach was often limited and hit the quartbacks was effectively prohibited.
Before making their pre -season debut last season, the general selection No. 1 Caleb Williams said that he believed that the preseason “representatives are always essential for anyone like me: a young newbow, second -year boy, [or] Third year boy. “However, this year, as a type of second year that plays under a new chief coach in Chicago, the Field Marshal will not play in the first pre -season game of the Bears.
The teams are increasingly willing to sit for headlines due to the risk of injuries that became a serious concern topic on Thursday in Indianapolis. During a preseason game in Baltimore, the Campo de los Colts Marshal, Anthony Richardson, dislocated a little finger in the midst of his competence to hold on to initial work. However, sustaining an important player from a game is not a guarantee that they will enter the regular healthy season. Just ask the Chargers, who lost the Linquer offensive key Rashawn Slater to a knee injury that ended the season during a practice this week.
This month, 30 of the 32 teams will play three preseason games, only the Los Angeles and Los de Detroit Chargers, who also played in the exhibition of the Fame Hall of July 31, will play more, and many have indicated that they will play the headlines and the stars again, if it does.
Jacksonville is one of the few exceptions. The Jaguars are expected to play most of the headlines at the opening of Saturday’s preseason against Pittsburgh, including the general selection of No. 2 Travis Hunter and the Marshal of the Trevor Lawrence Field Field as a way to increase their repetitions after a dramatic review of the low season.
“Look,” said Jacksonville coach Liam Coen. “If we had three [joint practices] And two days of work [within] Each of those joints would probably not be playing. “
Meanwhile, his opponent will sit the new field marshal Aaron Rodgers, the former MVP in his first season with Pittsburgh. According to the reports, he offered to play, but he was among a group of 15 headlines that will sit at least the first preseason game because “they need less track to take off, to be honest with you,” said Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin.
A player as good as Burrow would apparently need little proverbial clue, but has called to the change of philosophy of the Bengals “the right decision.” But not everyone is altering their preseason approach. Matthew Stafford, the seafaring of the Los Angeles RAMS, will not play in the first preseason game of the team this week while it is a back injury.
But he did not take the injury to know that he would not take a single game game in August.
“There is a possibility that I have seen Matthew Stafford in the preseason for the Rams while the coach,” McVay said in 2021. “That will never happen.”
