Falcons: 25 - 30 snaps

[papachaz]

Coach Smith has announced he wants to leave the starters in on both sides of the ball for 25 to 30 snaps. Last week, the offense got 21 snaps, and the starting defense only got 9. Kudos to the defensive starters for 3 consecutive 3 and outs!

But coach says he wants to see more of the starting D, and there are a few players they'll take out, but he wants to get the OL starters some more reps. I'm going to say this means we'll see Redman or JPW behind the starting OL some of the second quarter.

what's everyone's thoughts on this? do we risk leaving the starters out there longer risking injury in a PS game? Obviously if coach says so, then they will. I'm just thinking about it this way. Ok we all know Dent is in the base defense, and you keep the core guys on base D in on ST, but he had enough reps on ST last year, and yet we leave him out there to get hurt, when we have plenty of other guys trying to make the roster on ST to look at......of course, hindsight is perfect isn't it.

My opinion is, get the starters some reps to keep them in rythym no doubt, but don't risk them by letting them stay too long. what do YOU think?