Focus Quote by Evan Fournier

Preseason is the basis for everything.

— Joel Matip

Preseason is preseason. It's actually made to make mistakes and to learn from your teammates and plays and stuff.

— Evan Fournier

Preseason, you generally just want to make sure people work hard, do the basics right.

— Steve Nicol

I think preseason is about getting better each game and executing what we've worked on in practice and being ready for opening night.

— David Lee

Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be…

— Mike McCarthy

It doesn't matter if it's preseason or a scrimmage. I'm trying to have a dominant performance, whether it's preseason first series or whenever I…

— Myles Garrett

I think we sometimes think, 'it is just preseason. These games are for the fans mostly.' It's for ourselves to get in shape and…

— Larry Johnson

To me, the preseason is the most over-analyzed 10 plays or whatever it is - ever.

— Philip Rivers

The preseason obviously is a different feel and you go to the regular season and it's a much different feel; the speed. I think…

— Matthew Slater

I think the preseason helps a lot, just to feel a little bit about the speed of the game.

— Andrew Luck

The preseason games are always weird because you know you're not going to play a ton, but you have to get ready like it's…

— Joe Flacco

In the preseason, you usually only get a small window of opportunity, but when you get out there for four quarters and you're able…

— Matt Cassel