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It is what it is. If he is really that fragile nothing we do will help it. They also probably acknowledge he is the only chance at all we have at being successful. PJ and Grier aren't going to be leading us to anywhere but a top 10 pick. If they just don't trust the OL to protect him unless they are at 100% well.....also probably fuged.

Warthogs would be the best for non-fans. I will immediately call them piglets.

Well one of those is extremely offensive and I can see why it had to be changed. No one wants to be associated with Congress.

I hope Burns in a sling is something that they will use to keep him out of the game and not an actual injury.

I do think he is in the last group to get cut, though.

Who do you cut? Arnold? Tremble? Thompson? Any of the three are clearly better or at least a better gamble than Thomas. IMO, he gets cut.

I definitely understand the need to protect your starting QB but this "criteria" for him to start is more than a little weird. It's either lack of confidence in our offensive backups or Darnold. Neither of those situations is good news, although either is understandable.

I can't see keeping him, TBH.

I initially read that as Bacon and thought you had invented the most southern thing ever.

I don't keep score with 99% of people in here. I come here to debate and I don't care if disagreements happen. The entire point of this place is to have healthy debates and discussions. It doesn't need to be an echo chamber of my own opinions. The only real animosity I probably have is the occasional trolling I will do of some of the dumber posters in here. Which, they are mostly now on my ignore list(which needed to be expanded anyway). No reason to derail threads just because I might get entertained insulting some nitwits. That's being part of the problem.

Can we pull off a miracle trade to get another 7th rounder? If so, get that Scott Fitterer statue started.

Washington Team Football. It's the one that fits the most.

That may seem like the case but typically players that can't seem to stay healthy don't waver from that trend. As the 4ManRush guys say, "Availability is an ability." Yeah. It is what it is. You don't tear a roster down to frame like we did and then recover quickly. It looks like we are moving in the right direction overall. We just need to figure out some of the more critical things, like QB, OL, LB, etc.

It's one of those coin flip things. I looked at it multiple times and he does get there early. Hard to say if he hooks the body from that angle. If so, that almost always draws a flag. Even if he got flagged, it was good coverage so I wouldn't be very upset.

I wouldn't be super mad about that play even if it was a flag. He played it well.

Actually, that was just good coverage across the board on that rep.

I am not freaking out about him in camp and practices but he is not a rookie. That narrative is completely ridiculous. If he is struggling 5-8 games into the season, there will be no "oh well we just have to wait for him to get some experience" people outside some of our true dolts. It's gonna be Teddy 2.0 treatment. As I said before training camp even started, none of this really matters for Darnold, good or bad. We will know what Darnold is when the bullets are flying in a real game.

I would rather he have a shitty completion percentage that be heaving balls to the defense. Maybe it's not a great result but if he really is able to clean up his bad decisions, that's at least progress.

Excellent reaction. Might get a flag in a real game. Just a touch early.

As injury prone as he has been as a QB, I don't think he'd hold up to that grind at LB. Can't be worse than Whitehead though.

Abnormal historically but we may see this a lot more considering the shorter preseason and longer regular season. Without one? Sam Darnold has never played a full 16 game schedule at any point in his career. He actually does have a significant injury history.

Exactly. It's a process and we are much closer to the beginning than the end. I am absolutely pumped about our DL, I am cautiously optimistic about our secondary and our LB's......well.....I am sure they will get a participation trophy.

That is actually pretty funny.