* The limited contact in practice rules and elimination of 2 a day practices in training camp made it more challenging for Steve Wilks to assess the players---as we know some players look fabulous in shorts and helmets.
* Wilks likely has regrets about how he used the pre-season games---but that is always a tricky roll of the dice.
* It didn’t help that Deone Bucannon, who was supposed to be the leader of the defense, was out for much of the pre-season. There is no way Wilks could have known that Bucannon would play as poorly as he did against the Redskins and beyond.