Matt LaFleur says he's going to play his starters, and he brought the evidence to back up his call

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

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Matt LaFleur wants to play his starters to protect them from injury. Sound weird? I thought so too, but the numbers back up his call. Plus, what's there to be excited about in the preseason opener? And Locked On Jets host John Butchko to gives us some insight into what's on the line for New York.

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0:00.0	Matt LaFleur says he's going to play his starters against the Jets on Saturday despite injury risk.
0:06.5	In fact, he says it would be a risk not to play them.
0:11.2	He's right.
0:12.1	I'll explain.
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0:54.9	fans who know what happened, they want to know why. And to how thanks to everyone who makes
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1:03.1	much as we like starting our day with you. Matt LaFleur said he's going to play his starters
1:09.6	a certain amount on Saturday night against the New York Jets who are's going to play his starters a certain amount on Saturday night against the New York
1:13.5	Jets who are also going to play their starters. He said he'd like his guys to knock the rust off a little bit.
1:19.9	He believes in that. He also cited something that made my eyebrows raise and my ears perk up.
1:28.4	He said, according to his sources, that was his phrasing, that not playing in the preseason
1:36.8	can actually increase overall the risk of injury, that the data said that and I went what data now mat
1:50.4	LaFleur did not provide the data so I went in search of the data and know the data is
1:56.3	everyone's favorite thing right oh let's talk about This is not that. I found a pair of studies
2:04.4	that looked into NFL injury data and found significant increases in especially soft tissue
2:14.1	injuries in 2020 compared to 2019. Well, what happened in 2020?
2:18.8	We had a global pandemic, and there was no preseason.
2:24.7	And what we saw in the first month of that COVID 2020 season was a rash of injuries.
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