The third week of the NFL's preseason is a player's best opportunity to make a positive impression after weeks of grinding and banging heads with teammates.
The league's "dress rehearsal" is the closest thing to a regular-season contest, and it should be the culmination of everything an individual and team has been working toward.
"This is real football now," Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson said during the second episode of HBO's Hard Knocks. "... It's a [expletive] grind, and sometimes you don't want to do it. You gotta learn to do it when you don't want to do it.