Injured Reserve Prepares For The Week 2 Crowd
Well I guess this is one of the consequences of no preseason games. Everyone just gets hurt in the early regular season instead!
“Oh my god this year seems worse than normal with injuries” has been a line that I’ve followed football long enough to no longer give much credence to. I can’t remember the last season people didn’t say that after the early weeks when we have our usual time-frame of people going down. When was the last time you heard anyone go “Wow, hasn’t been too many injuries this season, everyone’s healthy!” Never. No one says that.
We always have a few big names go down, this year features Von Miller, Saquon Barkley, and Nick Bosa as our starring roles. Most of the injuries we’ve seen are the types of injuries we’d still be seeing in preseason instead and nothing about this rash of destruction strikes me as something that wouldn’t be happening otherwise, maybe with different names, maybe more spread out over 3 weeks of preseason and early weeks of real season. Yeah, week 2 hit us pretty damn hard (especially the poor 49ers, who sacrificed everything to beat…the Jets?) but that might be a product of the condensed timeframe.
2020 is the first season I can remember that was actually set up to deliver us a worse than normal injury situation with the lack of training camps and no preseason games, but unless the dominoes keep falling like this in week 3, It doesn’t seem any worse than normal to me. After week one was relatively mild, I saw some creeping whispers that maybe this season just proved that preseason games are useless. I…don’t buy that, but not entirely for the injury argument. I’m probably in favor of 2 preseason games that are mostly there for younger bubble players to go out and prove themselves. Vets with unquestioned standing shouldn’t even have to play preseason games, but for a young and inexperienced team, those weeks are vital.
The teams doing well right now are teams that came back with good continuity to pick back up. There aren’t any big 0-2 surprises outside arguably the Vikings. There aren’t any big 2-0 surprises outside the Raiders and Bears, but the Bears are pretenders who have faced to garbage piles and did just enough to not also get set on fire. Weeks 3-4 are always the weeks of truth, where the pretenders get exposed and the true teams to watch emerge from the murky depths of confusion.
Also, if you didn’t check it or forgot to go back, READ MY LAST POST PLS!
I can fix the Giants RB problem hear me out
The ravens have 3 tradble rbs
Justyce Hill. Probably the cheapest rb to get. Small and elusive can maneuver around everyone.(ball control problems) worth 5th/7th rounder
Mark Ingram. A powerback who can drill through every one higher in price like maybe a 3rd or 5th rounder (Just turned 30)
GUS EDWARDS. He is both of these men combined but faster more elusive and without the cons worth at least a 2nd round pick undervalued and amazing. he can do it all i mean HOLY SHITE he’s good.
Tarik Choen if you want a receiving back for when DJ almost dies in the pocket.
Didn’t think injured reserved would even be noticed by Dave. I am unworthy
I see this, and raise you that we already signed Devonta Freeman
Running backs fall off so quickly I didn’t even realize that Freeman was a FA to start this year
i did not notice
As a colts fan love/hate that Luck runs the bar now. Who would have thought that picks 1/2 of that draft both would run the IR/Bar. Also think that although its not a surprise, Houston is the best 0-2 team after losing to Mahomes and Lamar Jackson. If they lose this week to the Steelers then they have to be out of the playoffs. What a Murderer’s row to start with.
They faced a tough slate to be sure, but they haven’t looked particularly great in those games. Their point differential is 31 points! Given up the 3rd most points in the league! I’d give it to the Broncos because at least they’ve looked like they belong on the same field as they teams they played, even if those teams aren’t as tough.
Strange season gets stranger. 2020 set things up for all sports too just feel weird. This feels par for the course so far. Also, I’m glad Captain Neckbeard hangs around some still.
lol, RIP CMC. We will miss you by going 0-16
Just a reminder – Injured Reserve means something very different this year. You only have to be on IR for 3 weeks before you can come back, and a team can bring an unlimited number of players back. Now that doesn’t mean much for severe injuries like Saquad, but someone like CMC may be back sooner than you’d normally think.
I was thinking you were going to make a comic about this. There was something wrong with Metlife’s turf. Hey dave, watch gridiron heights!
Holy Jesus Tyrod Taylor i mean omg
That man just has the worst luck.
🙂 This is fine. None of these injuries hurt the Browns in terms of star power. This is all okay.
Getting a third of the defense back this week helps too.
Existence is pain.
Dave, how you been? I know you been having your own wellness isssues.
As a culinary professional this comic spoke to me.
Surprisingly the Chargers haven’t been affected by injuries that much outside of Derwin James
Amazing how even a Giants fan can see what blinded Bears fans cannot; this team is trash and Trubiscuit is not the answer.
Also, I’m from Chicago born and raised…..and I’m depressed by this message.
🙁