‘”What helps us is our schedule’s been extremely uncommon this year,” Allen said. “We had game one (on a Thursday), then went straight to a Monday night, then Sunday night, had a 4:00 Sunday game, Thanksgiving. We’ve just been so in the air with our schedule, and I think Coach McDermott’s done such a great job of being smart with how we’re practicing, when we’re going full pads, when to give guys a little bit of a break.”‘