8/7/22 Training Camp Discussion

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Originally Posted by Direckshun

It’s important that you guys understand something. My analysis is not based on one day — the one day was informative, but the cheese does not stand alone.

If I went out and practiced, you guys would immediately know in one practice that I played bad in practice because of problems that I will simply not bounce back from. I’m too small, I’m not fast enough, everybody is stronger than me. You saw one practice but you know I’m doomed.

Now McDuffie is 100 times the athlete I was in my prime, but the principle is the same. If McDuffie is losing due to technique (which he did), that’s fixable. If he loses due to some more natural issues (which he did), than the mountainside is going to be a lot steeper. There are some things he can do to negate the size differential, but there not as much he can do to correct a lack of makeup speed. And right now he’s still leaning on some hedging cheats he relied on in college.

Most of those issues are fixable, which is why I don’t think he’s a busy. But I saw such an array of issues, almost a different one every snap, that suggests he has a lot of building to do. The thought of him going up against Keenan Allen terrifies me.

If I’m wrong, fine. But what I’ve said is not entirely out of step with what the team has said and what some media personalities have reported. But it does run against conventional wisdom, so heads will explode.

Time will tell.

I hope your whole report is wrong. It was 20 paragraphs of doom and gloom. Feels like we are about to become the Jags or Jets.