This is the starters preseason game basically. Both McCarthy and McVay mentioned this. They both plan to rest all their starters week 1 of the preseason and have them play a situational scrimmage instead. Emphasis will be on the starters, we’ll see a lot less of the 3rd/4th stringers.
Here’s McVay on it:
McVay shared a little bit about what he hopes to get out of Saturday’s session, saying it’ll essentially be a substitute for a preseason game for the team’s starters, who are expected to sit out the preseason.
“We’ll implement a lot of different situations. Coach (Mike) McCarthy has been great about putting together a good practice plan that’s going to be reflective of us getting a lot of work. And it will be focused on a lot of our top guys,” McVay said Wednesday. “We kind of look at it as in a lot of instances, these practices kind of serve as supplemental or substitutes, if you will, for the preseason games because of the approach we take. It’ll be a lot of different things and good competitive work trying to keep our guys safe but also get a chance to go against somebody else – different defensive scheme, different offensive scheme. Get a chance to go against ‘Bones’ (John Fassel) and the things he does in the kicking game, so that’ll be fun.”
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