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Originally Posted by dkgojackets
Final scores obviously dont matter but you can still learn some from watching how the starting units play. Carolinas was awful and couldnt score if they got five downs, while the Packers were unstoppable last year.
But teams don't game plan for these. They might put together an opening offensive script, but that's it. This is why you'll often have the rookie QBs who are expecting to start look good in the preseason and then immediately look WAY worse the second the real action starts. You can maybe assess the trenches a bit, and you can assess kickers and punters pretty well, but that's about all the predictive value I can see.
The thing is that by the late part of the regular season, most teams look pretty dissimilar from what they looked like in weeks 1 and 2 of the regular season, let alone the preseason.