Benching starters late in games

Some of you don't understand a big reason to bench starters late in games. You don't just trot out the entire second team offense when the game is out of reach. You want backups to get experience with the starters. You want your backup QB to have experience playing with first team OL blocking and throwing to first team WRs. You want a backup OG to have a feel for playing between the starting C and OT. The other side of this is you want your starters to have experience playing with the backups.

It isn't nearly as beneficial to get a guy reps when he is doing it with guys he will likely not play in a real game with. Coaches will put two or three backups in at a time late in blowouts. This will leave 8-9 starters on the field.

Starters get hurt late in games, and just because the fans don't know what the coach is doing, doesn't mean the coach doesn't know what he is doing. You often times hear commentators say "they can rotate players freely without any dropoff", well this is a necessary step to reach that point.