India, Aug. 5 -- NFL stars like Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals are usually reserved for the benches during the team's postseason run to avoid chances of injury and let their true caliber shine through when the regular season rolls around. However, according to former Bengals quarterback and NFL analyst Boomer Esiason, allowing Burrow to end the field early this preseason may help the team make the playoffs this year.

During a recent appearance on the 'Up & Adams Show', Esiason said, "I can only go by personal experience. We had four preseason games, so we had a lot of time to play. So it would be ten plays in the first preseason game, a quarter in the second, and in the third preseason game, we would play the first come and go in t...