Now, ultimately, you hate to see someone like Griffin, who has already worked so hard to get back to a starting position after injuries stunned his once promising career, go down with another injury.
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It’s been thrown for a significant loss.
Jeremy Langford carried the ball 17 times last week against the Texans while backup Jordan Howard got one carry and quarterback Jay Cutler chipped in with two carries of his own.
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On Monday the team announced that starting QB Robert Griffin III would miss an extended period of time after suffering a shoulder injury over the weekend, setting the team up for the return of 37-year-old Josh McCown under center. When you’re the Browns, that’s really all you’re looking for! I knew it was going to end up coming to me. It is unfortunate you have the injuries that you do, but you have to be able to move on from it because nobody is going to feel sorry for us about it.
His 278 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions against the Browns was a solid start, and the Eagles obviously have plenty of confidence in the second overall pick in the draft.
Thayer had this to say about the blitz, “I don’t think you need to blitz very much on RGIII to get him out of his rhythm”. And they were in love with Goff – at least their head coach and offensive coordinator and all-important analytics staff was – but they didn’t have the guts to trade up one pick to get him.
“For us to just sit back and say, “Yeah, this is the year that we’re gonna tank” and all that, for a player that’s not our mindset at all”, McCown told NBC Sports. He attended Sunday’s Eagles-Browns game, helping hold a large American flag on Lincoln Financial Field during the national anthem. But Lurie was familiar with Pederson, who was a quarterback for the Eagles in 1999-2000 and an assistant coach under Andy Reid in Philly and Kansas City. “It’s a game”, he said before the win over the Browns, as if that explained everything. He has a maturity about him that even if it’s not crunch time, he’s always treating it like it is. “If I can keep him in the building as long as I stay in the building, we’ll be OK”. With that in mind, it could make sense for the Jets to deal Smith to the Browns for a couple of draft picks instead.
Jackson, though, can’t let his mind drift beyond this week’s home opener against the Ravens.
“And it fires me up when people say that”.
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It’s one thing for the players to have an “us against the world” mentality and another for the front office to be orchestrating a broader long-term plan. “But from my standpoint, I was pretty calm”.
