With each passing week of the preseason is added a further later of urgency and deliberation with which NFL teams go about the business of preparing themselves to assemble a 53-man roster from 90 players. Mind you, that is a process that also includes the scouting of 31 other 90-man roster for the possibility of making trades or signing players off of waivers.
But the most pertinent part of this process is how the events that unfold in each preseason game spill over into the next and influence the manner in which each subsequent game is played, relative to personnel and competition level.