There's not a more important time on the NFL calendar than "dress rehearsal" week.
OK, except for the Super Bowl. And all the other playoff games. And the entire regular season. And the draft.
Other than that, though, it's really important.
Some teams have moved away from playing their starters for at least half of their third exhibition games. But over the past several days, we got the longest look at the league's biggest names that we're going to get.
That answered some questions regarding position battles—and created a few more. It also afforded Bleacher Report NFL analysts Brad Gagnon, Gary Davenport and Brent Sobleski a glimpse at which teams are firing on all cylinders and which ones still need some work.