Matthias

Burris got hurt as well. You're right CMC played late in that Saints game when we had things wrapped up.

With the news of CMC going on IR, it is beginning to look like that one night in Houston will cost us a promising season. (In spite of a horrid O-line) You have to remember it wasn't just our star halfback that got sidelined, but also our up and coming corner Jaycee Horn, who at the time we were wondering if he tore his achilles. That much damage was done going up against a crappy Texans team. This got me thinking quite a bit. I've been thinking about McCaffrey's workload and how impossible it is to decrease it no matter what our coaching staff say in wanting to see him get less touches. (He is the offense folks. Shoot, he might be the entire team at this point) Then I thought about the league increasing the season by one game. This of course made the season longer. It was at this point an interesting idea began to swirl. In the NBA, there are times when stars of big name teams sit out games to rest up. When it comes to these ridiculous Thursday night games, on the road, not against a division opponent, not against a conference opponent, we should rest our starters. Now of course hindsight is 20/20. With an undefeated team riding high, who in their right mind would rest their starters? That would be unheard of. Yet going forward, I would set this as the new standard if I were coaching a team. The only exceptions would be if we desperately needed the game, and/or if it is a division opponent. Now I know a lot of folks will crap on this idea, I say fug that. We lost our young rookie for the year in Jaycee Horn. We lost CMC for most of the year, if not the year with the way his hamstring is twitching. Heck, we lost freaking Burris in that mother lovin' Texan game if I'm not mistaken. That free safety spot in our defense has been vacant ever since. Shoot, you got me wondering if D-Jax or AJ Bouye can play safety until Burris can come back. Screw the NFL and their Thursday Night games!!! Again if I were the coach, I'm resting me and mine, if not forfeiting them mugs all together! This league is tough to play games on the regular and stay healthy, yet you are going to give these men two days to rest before they have to get ready to play again? I'm telling y'all we are going to have to get ahead of this curve. As the old adage say, "Work smarter, not harder".

Normally I would ignore something like this, but with the trades we've been making as of late, I wouldn't put it past us if management felt the deal was right.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-insider-notes-sam-darnolds-struggles-may-have-panthers-mulling-move-for-deshaun-watson-more-from-week-5/

Should have been a starter from the jump.

We need to move Donte Jackson to free safety once Gilmore is ready to play.

Wake me up when CMC is healthy.

Looks like we're wearing the classic black jerseys this week.

The Panthers are about to do the world a favor and do this to the Cowboys come Sunday.

My precious DARNOLD TO ARNOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't wait to see Greeny rant tomorrow about his Jets.

Short week has killed us.

O-line is alright against the pass, but getting absolute zero push on the running game. It's a shame CMAC can't run freely.

Put Christensen at LG and Deonte Brown at RG, then we will be rolling.

I don't like how our defense keep getting put in tough spots due to our freaking kicker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forget the Aint's! We'll handle Mr. Crab Legs ourselves next week!

Two years ago when he played in the regular season, it didn't look like he belonged in the NFL at all. Here we are two years later, and he still looks like he doesn't belong in the NFL.

JIMINY CRKICKETS!!!!!! LOL

My only thing with Horn's style of play, is I hope he doesn't draw a lot of defensive holding calls. Of course he is definitely the next shut down corner of a generation.

Let him have a huge year at nickel.

This reminds me of the question of why doesn't the NFL increase roster sizes? They add on an extra game to the regular season, something I feel like fans weren't really asking for, but an increase in the amount of players you can have on the active roster is something that would be great for a couple of reasons. One, it would keep players healthy knowing you got guys to rotate, and two, you will have more surprise and breakout players taking advantage of opportunity. (Making the NFL more exciting to watch) Yet I guess the NFL doesn't want to do that because it means more players they would have to pay. Less money going into the owner's (middle-unnecessary men) pockets.

Let Tepper pay for it

I rebuke you!!!!!!!