Rest Some Starters Until TNF?

CalgaryFan05

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Good points raised here about maybe letting some of our injured defensive players take tomorrow off to be closer to 100% by Thursday in time for a massively important 49ers matchup. Thoughts?

“I’m not saying you’re kicking this one to the side and if you lose, no big deal. Certainly you want to win. But if there’s a guy and you’re going, ‘He’s 80 percent, but if we give him a few more days, he’d be close to 100,’ maybe I don’t play him in this game. Maybe I want him as close to 100 for the 49ers. And they should still be able to handle this Giants offense.”


Honestly - I think keeping momentum going is more important than chess matching personnel - IMO.

Aside from 3 plays - we were very respectable against a formidable Lions team at home. No one is hanging their heads over that loss (or should be).

I want to keep the motivation going. i want to see DK clawing for yards (without an INT please!). Chew nails guys. Establish yourself. Beat the shit out of the Giants the way that they should be beaten the shit out of. Boots on their necks.

Beating the Giants handily is just as needed as the 49ers win. Goes to intimidating other future opponents and 'rep' in general. Goes to pumping up our side.

And ****, playing down to opponents is so ... uh.... PC, isn't it? I want MM/Dan Campbell shit here. Doesn't matter who the opponent is - 100% please. I'd love a 48-3 typa win. Would love it. And that's not a big head talking - I would just love a blowout statement win at home at this time in the season.

THAT SAID. IF we were up by a bajillion - yea - increase the second string rotation late in the 3rd :)
 

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Kittle and Warner were out of practices this week until Friday, but I would want them to play Sunday and not rest if they were good to go. Arizona offense is a little more formidable than the Giants O though, and it is also a divisional game. I think players need to play every game they are physically able to and should only rest when the wins don't mean anything. In this stage of the season, every win is critical. Another way of doing some resting would be to split snap counts
 

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Rat is right. After that defensive debacle last Monday? Everyone plays. That was some bullshit.
 

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There is no gimmie games in the NFL. If the players can play, you go full bore and don't look back, going hard is the only way forward in the regular season. You can't leave games to chance, which is what you're doing by resting starters while nothing is set in stone for the playoff picture.

How many times have we been kept out of the playoffs because of one game? Quite a few.
 

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I would think after last week and some live action for backups that you could now have a little more of a rotation and not give anyone way more snaps than others that before last week weren't really contributors , we just have to keep dexter Lawrence in check and go from there , as long as we actually have a pass rush this week we should win this especially with the team knowing nothing is certain and the lions game just happened , I feel at full strength we would have made it much more challenging but this is probably the game with all the injuries I wouldn't smash down on the D's gas pedal too hard
Now we just need to keep the O healthy too so if we pull way ahead start a rotation there as well
Yeehaw
Go Hawks
 

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Do you maybe rest some guys earlier than you might in the second half if the game is going well?

Yeah, I can see that. Going from MNF to a Sunday game to TNF is pretty brutal.

But a 2-game losing streak where you potentially lose your lead on the division because you underestimated the Giants would be even more brutal.
 

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I think players need to play every game they are physically able to and should only rest when the wins don't mean anything. In this stage of the season, every win is critical. Another way of doing some resting would be to split snap counts

I'd just like to add that my understanding of the part of @94Smith's comment to which I added color and boldface emphasis is "after the team's playoff seeding (1-7 or not at all) is decided, near the end of the season."

A lot of my fellow Seahawks fans around have lower opinions of Pete Carroll than I do, but the one thing Carroll did that drove me [even more] nuts since the beginning was the whole "can you win a game in the first quarter" nonsense.

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Technically, Mr. Carroll (oops, sorry... Professor Carroll), you can't win a game in any quarter. You win the game when the fourth quarter is over. But effort and success in the first quarter is worth just as much as effort and success in the fourth, perhaps even a little more. Why? Because if you rack up a lead in the first three quarters, you can sit important players for the last part of the game and avoid potential injuries.

Similarly, as @94Smith and our own @Spohawks and @sutz have observed in this thread, wins in September and October count just as much for making the playoffs and playoff seeding as wins in the last four weeks of the season, perhaps even a little more, because once your playoff seeding is set, you can rest those important players at the end of the season. That was one of the advantages the Cheatriots had year after year for about two decades that was actually within the NFL rules (but, of course, massively enhanced by all their cheating) - always having the last week or two of the regular season plus Wildcard Weekend to rest key players while all their rivals for titles were trying to put together NFL-quality lineups with spit and bailing wire.
 
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Every starter had better be out there. If freakin' Vanderbilt can do it, the Giants can do it. Take nobody for granted.
Exactly. Beat them soundly then rest dudes in the 4th.
 

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No, I think we should try to win this game. If we rest starters, we might lose this game and then still lose on Thursday anyway.
 

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Rest the starters, eh? Hell, we couldn't even win the game with two of NY best offensive players out.
What a crap showing by the Hawks.
 

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Maybe bench some starters. We aren’t winning Thursday playing like this.
 
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