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Should Herbert still be playing? I know this game is important, but eesh, is he just going to have weekly surgeries to re-fix his left hand?

I have him in a league but I already won that division so this weeks game is meaningless and I’m cheering against him.

My dad tore his Achilles in 1969 and he still isn’t back to normal. But they also took out his tonsils while he was wide awake. Ugh, mid 20th century medicine now sounds so medieval.

Jones can likely come back and play next year. It was reported that Rodgers was planning on coming back to play THE SAME YEAR if the Jets hadn’t been eliminated from the playoffs. But I’m no doctor. Maybe Jones’ injury is worse than Rodgers’ and Cousins’. Wow, all three possessive surnames-ending-in-S? Philip RiverS might want to sit this out after all.

I just looked it up, are trades really not allowed until March 11? That's two full months Addison has to avoid doing something terrible while he's free to operate in the world without adult supervision.

I think he and Aaron Rodgers are probably cut from the same cloth. I wonder if they've both talked about their favorite inoculation techniques yet.

He was sitting on a couch because he was delusional enough to think he could land a starting job with a team that had a QB go down in camp. It was a bad look, it certainly rubbed me the wrong way, but as far as on field talent, I don't really think he was behind the others. Personally, I probably like Brissett the best as he can chuck it down field and he seems like a good clubhouse guy. However, those Cardinals aren't looking very competitive with him and it looks like a lot of his yards are coming in garbage time. After that, I might go with Wentz if we had that same decision to make next year. I didn't see the pompous diva or phony religious stuff he was known for, and until the game he had to get dragged off the field, he did keep them in every game. Maybe more importantly he was surprisingly even better than Darnold in terms of getting Jefferson the ball. That last part is going to be a big selling point for me next year as I don't think Jefferson is as disgruntled as many think he must be, but I don't want him getting there either. If we're not looking at actually competing next year, I might take the known over the unknown considering the best player on the team averaged 7 catches on 10 targets for 95 yards per game when Wentz played. Also, I don't want a guy I'd have to commit multiple years to. So no Kyler Murray and no Mac Jones, even if they were considered more talented. If they're punting on QB next year, 2027 absolutely has to be another attempt to get an elite franchise QB. With or without KAM and KOC.

Those guys are all in the same bucket as Wentz. Aside from Winston, who sounds like a great clubhouse guy, but is an absolute trainwreck as an on-field QB. And this is coming from a guy who didn't like Wentz coming here. Agree with Mike that having a veteran there all summer might have helped JJ. Though, to me it looks like he needs more help than just a veteran QB. And I do understand this team is likely still going to roll with him next year.

Sure, that makes sense. I'm not sure the quality of on field skill matters then in that regard. And Mac Jones has only been in the league four years, so as far as mentorship goes, he's probably no more qualified than Sam Howell was.

But even if Kwesi didn't fall asleep, where does Mac Jones, Brissett, Winston or even Daniel Jones get this team? Still nowhere. And honestly, aside from *maybe* Daniel Jones, I don't think that Wentz was much of a step back from the others. No, I do not buy into the Mac Jones' redemption arc. He's still a weak-armed, statue, game-manager.

Right, they should be in ahead of Miami? After losing to Miami? Zero pity.

That's been my mantra. But for me at this point, I don't know that McCarthy can do enough the rest of the season to be very clearly the option for week 1. I think that ship has nearly sailed. I know last game was a win, but it was not good enough for me to change my tune. I know he didn't need to do more to win the game, but he needed to do a lot more to have me buy into his abilities. I also don't care about the veteran backup. Because a good veteran backup basically just means the difference between being bad, and being respectable. It still has no impact on if your team is great, and that's the only thing I care about.

I think if you go into 2026 with JJ as the starting QB you are already telling the fans you're punting. Which is fine if they still can't realistically get a long term franchise QB next year, but why would we want to replicate the Michigan offense? That's not a style of offense that can win a Super Bowl. Unless you have a Jalen Hurts or Lamar Jackson, you have to have a QB that can sling the ball all over the field. Plus, this franchise hasn't been able to put together an above average OL in two decades. If they try running the ball 60+% of the time, they're going to go three and out most series.

I really don't like all these presumptions that JJ is going to keep his job. It was one game against a bad defense, and he still couldn't get the ball to the best WR in the league.

I think I under-estimated Ben Johnson. Caleb Williams has not been good, yet that team is winning, and even more surprising in this era of extreme QB examination, no one is talking about how Caleb Williams has not been good. That's been a pretty slick trick.

I wouldn't have the playoffs open to independent teams. I'm beyond tired of Notre Dame thinking it's some special circumstance that gets to both call it's own shots and benefit from nobody else being able to call their own shots. Hell, I wouldn't even tell them to join a Power Five conference, I'd tell them to go look in the FCS. I say that completely aware it will never happen because Catholics tend to have money and we all know that's all the NCAA cares about.

Right, calling a private equity firm the local buyer, is like referring to Bed Bath and Beyond as a local store. Uh, yeah, I guess they have a presence here, but their interests are with the investors, and the non-local investors are going to decide what becomes of the 'local' store.

It really is insane how tightly this club holds on to players who can easily be replaced with what's floating around on the waiver wire. That said, I don't think he breaks camp with the Twins. But I'll further guess that he remains a Twin (or rather Saint) because no one will claim him off of waivers when he's DFA'd. No contender is going to want to roster him, and what non-contender (other than the Twins) sees value in rostering 29-year-olds who can't hit, field or run the bases?

Well Stewart proved them all wrong by leading the Dodgers to another championship!

I really don't think he has any meaningful value at this time. He was dreadful last year and now there are age, injury and velocity concerns. If they got more than some A ball lotto ticket unlikely to ever make the majors I'd be shocked. I have no interest in that kind of return, I'd rather hold the hand I was dealt and cross my fingers.

With Ober's injury issues last year and the velocity decline I don't think the Twins would get much back for him at this point. I think the best bet would be to cross our fingers and hope he rebounds. I'd trade SWR though. He seems to be the one where there are equal numbers believers and disbelievers. Should that ratio hold true amongst MLB general managers, that's who I'd market.

Now that hardly any CBs travel with the other team's top WR, I think safeties and nickel backs are way more important. With so much zone coverage, the outside CBs typically only have a couple of outlets to watch for, the guys who play in the middle of the field have a near unlimited amount of options they have to guard against.

Mike we're pals, stop trying to trigger me..... I'm kidding of course, even while screaming in my head that there's no such thing as a sure fie CB.

Yeah, if they won’t clarify, (and to be clear, they absolutely owe us zero additional information) that’s where the mind wanders.

Leonard was Notre Dame's noodle armed, dink and dunk passer from their runner-up finish last year. Prior to that he was Duke's noodle armed, dink and dunk passer. Anthony Richardson mysteriously broke his eye socket in the locker room a few weeks back.