“I’m going to go try to win the last three games, so I’m going to put the guys that earned the right to start or play in,” he began, settling in for what clearly was going to be an extended metaphor, a parable perhaps.

“I just don’t think it’s a great message to the team to start making this a tryout,” he continued. “The question earlier about how to keep guys’ eyes from glossing over, if we learn one thing this year with a young team, if we learn how to finish a season with 28 days of focus in December, if we have a chance to be a playoff team next year, our ability to focus around Christmas, to focus around Thanksgiving, to go win games at the end of the year when you’re beat up, when practices are shorter, that’s a skill.

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