“It’s time for the preseason to be slashed in half”, reads a headline over Mike Florio’s byline late last night through his vehicle, Pro Football Talk. In the comments to the corresponding Tweet, the overwhelming consensus was agreement with that assertion.
The argument is that the quality of play in preseason games is substantially less than that of regular season games, and that, increasingly, coaches are holding out some players more and more, some altogether, while injuries are obviously twice as likely to occur if twice the number of games are played.