The New York Giants and New York Jets will be squaring off to the NFL’s slate of preseason games Thursday night.
Preseason games don’t count, but that doesn’t mean they don’t matter. There is a tendency to dismiss the preseason exhibition games as either meaningless at one extreme, or to read too deeply into anything that happens and to live and die by them at the other extreme.
The preseason has plenty of value for the coaching staff as well as much of the roster — and it also has plenty of value for those of us on the outside.