damn, he's been playing well. Hopefully he doesn't miss too much time.
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The Lamar, The Defense and The Comeback
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JoeyFlex5
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Ugly knee injury. Carted off. Rolled up on pretty good.
I’m not gonna call it a season ender just yet because I thought so with tyre, but I wouldnt expect good news…
he was the guy the colts were going after on that weird trick play - and he was glue - not fooled for a second and beautiful coverage
he's got some work to do being decisive breaking on the ball from the deep and coming downhill but he's really natural in coverage especially picking up passed off receivers from corners and he's got so much upside in man coverage too at deep safety
he's only going to get better and better
i will say that the defence clearly missed deshon though - he's so important at helping us defeat RPOs and play-action as well as setting the tone coming downhill which we've missed that 2nd/3rd level physicality since he went down
JoeyFlex5
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He looks REALLY good, like holy shit
it must have happened on the play where got absolutely waxed but in the shoulder - i wonder if when he got forced backwards he twinged it a little idk
was odd though - it didnt look like anything got forced the wrong way like you often see in those kinds of injuries - when i saw the replay i wasnt surprised he was ruled out but i was surprised he needed the cart
im hopeful that maybe it's short-term i/r at worst but you never know when guys get rolled up on even innocuously
Queen didnt regress.. he was anything to begin with
exactly my thoughts although i doubt he comes into a huge role straight away
JoeyFlex5
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I might be partial to knee injuries because I’ve suffered with one for ten years now lol, every funny knee movement and I’m writing a players season off
he's been playing like a top 5 safety all season - only reason he doesnt get recognition is because he doesnt get a ton of turnovers - and unfortunately for him the pick won't show up in accounting stats lol
JoeyFlex5
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I almost want to see Clark replace queen when Elliott comes back, let Elliott play strong and let Stephens play free, and obviously it’s completely interchangeable and nobody is glued to a position, but you get the point.
Yeah don’t know exactly what we have in Bateman just yet but I’d feel confident that Duvernay and Proche could come up with 80% of the production at this point. Not a ton on the stat sheet tonight but they’ve really stepped up when given the opportunity.
oh for sure - queen already played his fewest snaps - we'll still see queen and LBs on early downs but you bet we're going to play dime as much as possible with both elliott and chuck able to play all over the field and in the box
with jimmy smith too it creates some flexibility
but for any of this to work the big guys up front need to be more stout - calais made some big plays at the end but at times he and brandon williams were getting moved way too easily
JoeyFlex5
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Yeah that front was just getting casually removed from the line of scrimmage lol, it was ugly
duvernay was big early in this game running routes that we'd normally see watkins running so im not super worried
and im 100% confident in bateman - just not sure he'll have the game fitness or chemistry yet to not be somewhat limited to start with
but we also dont know that watkins is out yet - it's possible it was some sort of stinger