It's no myth that this team is so good that it will be very hard for an UDFA to make the team, and the odds are long for two to make the team. Guyton and Redd have a shot, but that's all it is. The Pats roster is TIGHT.
I tend to agree about these two, especially Guyton.
Some people say they want to see how certain players look in pre season before they decide and I say that is about as useless as tits on a bull.
Unless coaches play some of these 3rd and 4th teamers against 1st and 2nd team opposition they never really get a true look at how they will perform.
Coaches go into preseason games and play first team offense against 1st team defense, and so on and on so many occasions some drafted rookie, or UD free agent, looks great but then he's only playing against other draftees or other UD free agent but then when they have to go up against realo NFL players, they look like the player that was an UDFA.
Year after year teams have players that look great in pre season games and all the fans are frothing at the bit and then one of two things happen, either the coaches know better and cut him, or he makes the team somehow and then when he has to perform against real players the truth comes out that he cant cut it.
That is what happens more often than not. Saying that you, as a fan, want to see more of him in pre season is totally ridiculous. Pre season, as any football fan knows means almost nothing. And each year it is getting to mean even more nothing than the previous year.
Coaches learn a lot more watching these kids in practice sessions than in pre season games. Most of them are just thrown into the pre season games so the team can fulfill their obligation to the NFL to play the games, but the coaches use these guys just so they dont have to use the regulars and to avoid the regulars from getting hurt.
Any UDFA that makes the team will have earned it from the practice field, not the pre season games.
And for the record, let it be known that I really dont know very much about football and the information i posted above was given to me by someone that knows more than I do, whatever that is good for I don't know.
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