The Redskins were forced to depend on younger and untested player at many key positions.
Brown has always trusted solid veterans over exciting but untested younger players.
But a couple of untested players seldom get a private mentor, in this case the former veteran guard and tackle, William Roberts.
Behind him on the Jets is the untested second-year player Jonathan Goodwin.
Fassel has insisted he will play the game to win and not to evaluate his many young, untested players or to experiment with different personnel combinations.
If the three untested players respond poorly and if Europe's top players start to wobble, the tide could turn.
Kotite could have had experienced players at those positions, but now, the team having barely survived the first half, the untested players are tested.
Another week, another untested player at center, a most important position because the center calls the blocking assignments for the rest of the line.
He had been Parcells's one fallback on the team if none of the untested players could make it.
By 1911, this continuing problem forced him to sign untested players from lower leagues, including leagues in Ireland.