Austin discusses how fatigue can help identify which players you want to keep.

Head coach Kent Austin was explaining Friday how training camp can be used as "an indicator of what kind of trajectory you are on and to try to determine how much the guys have absorbed, what they really know and what they really can perform well with the fewest number of mistakes.
"We're being pretty deliberate in the layering and learning. Conceptually layering it in, then circling back to make sure that the learning has been embedded properly. So if we circle back to something we've installed in previous days and they don't have immediate recall, then we know that the learning process has faltered somewhere.
"It also ferrets out who are the better learners. All that is getting monitored and measured."
And is that beginning to take some shape in the staff's collective mind?
"It starts to flesh out right about now, especially when guys get tired," Austin said. "When you tire physically, you tend to get tired mentally as well. We'll see who can dig in and push through and be a pro.
"Fatigue creates a lot of cowards. We want tough football players that are mentally tough first and foremost, because typically if you're mentally tough you're going to be physically tough as well."
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