The Seahawks launch their preseason on Saturday night with a visit from the Cowboys. One key aspect of the planning process will be the division of quarterback reps.<\/p>\n
On Monday, coach Mike Macdonald addressed the issue, from the perspective of the playing time for backups Drew Lock and Jalen Milroe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re working through that right now,\u201d Macdonald told reporters. \u201cWe might take a different approach this year on how we play our quarterbacks. Drew needs game work too. Everybody needs work, so how do you do it? Even Sam [Darnold]. What\u2019s the smartest thing for him to get ready to play the season and our team, as well as those guys? . . . [W]e\u2019re finding it out. We\u2019ll find out on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n
The shift in the regular season from 16 games to 17 games, along with the shrinkage<\/a> of the preseason from four games to three, has created a much wider range of decisions as to the distribution of reps in exhibition games.<\/p>\n Regardless, the overriding goal is to get the first-stringers ready for the first game. That includes balancing the rewards of preparation with the risks of injury \u2014 especially since quarterbacks don\u2019t wear red \u201cno-touch<\/a>\u201d jerseys during preseason games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seahawks launch their preseason on Saturday night with a visit from the Cowboys. One key aspect of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-810264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}