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Devin Thomas among inactives


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Probably doesn't know the playbook yet and/or Fox is using this to teach the young man that he must earn it here. I personally think Smith, Thomas, and Gettis could be potent. Throw in "Hands" Lafell and "the project" Edwards, the future at WR is bright.

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I'm with you on Smitty, Gettis, and Thomas... But I don't find anything bright with LaFail. I still have high hopes for Edwards.

Yeah, I figured it might be the playbook but I asked Gantt about it because Clowney played his first week here, although Smitty was still injured. Gantt just tweeted that he believes Thomas is the most talented guy out of everyone other than Smitty, so it must be a comfort level thing.

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Yeah DG just tweeted back and said the same thing I thought above - Clowney playing his first week here had more to do with Smitty's injury.

So really he's had 3 weeks in the offense now and Devin only 2, IIRC. I'm sure we'll see him next week, if not, we may have Rod Gardner 2.0.

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Thomas is vet. Why the heck would he be inactive in place of Lafell thats dropping everything. I was expecting to see Smith, Thomas and Clowney. It's been two weeks, I'm sure that Thomas has learned enough plays to play in this simple offense we've been running. Yet instead, we keep a rook active thats got bricks for hands. And what about our TE's, I think that all three are active. We could've deactivated one and started another WR. Ohh may bad, I forgot about our simple offense or coaches.

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