WhitewalkerInPhilly

Look, at this point, if Rapaport says it looks confirmed it's a pretty good sign that the trainers feel he's good to go.

We might have been more willing to give an extra week to he sure (like with Sammy) but the short answer is that we don't really have any other dynamic playmakers at RB. If Shady says he's ready to go, I would presume that the training staff would have given him the green light. I'm ready to see him back.

That would make sense. Maybe give him the Spiller treatment and let Herron take the big load.

Yeah. If I'm Rex, this is a smokescreen and you rest him for the next few weeks. There were reports on that ankle as well. I was more worried about the reports that he'd be out 4-6 weeks before coming back a little dinged.

He'd definitely need to be a Free Safety, staying deep and following up on coverages. The question, to me, is what do you feel worse about: Graham and Duke or Graham and Leo?

Yeah, I am a bit worried about Karlos not being back. But if Shady is practicing all week, even if limited I hope he plays, even if it's for those screen passes he tears up the field on. And Tyrod is looking decent too.

Crazy idea here, but as safety becomes more interchangeable, would we want to shift Graham to SS aND have Leo work back as the FS as he gets back up to speed?

And now it looks like the current plan is for Tyrod to play Sunday. So....DOOOOOOOOMED???

Yeah. The fact that Tyrod is practicing, even if limited, on the first day, is a good sign. I keep seeing people freak out over people being out Wednesday when you see Harvin taking every Wednesday off.

Wow, you are a ray of sunshine...

Crazy idea here: Gilmore and Darby are currently playing lights out as the #1 and 2 CBs. Robey is ok as the slot CB. But we are down at safety. Maybe we throw in McLovin at safety to help him get back up to speed?

Again, do we have anything that isn't a retweet of Garoph? It doesn't make much sense, especially since he claims the he might be a short term IR candidate but McKelvin has that spot.

Does anyone think we are rushing to judgment on an injury...again? We were hearing Tyrod was out for 4 weeks 24 hours ago, and here he is practicing.

Now that's good to hear!!!

I agree this sounds like the best case scenario.

Interesting. Especially with teams like the Raiders, Ravens and Seahawks, not known as offensive powerhouses on their list.

In general, I find that going with the opposite of what Bucky says leads me to the truth. He's barely competent as the Sabres correspondent. When he reports for the Bills...I don't get how they keep him with Jay, Dunne...Carucci and...*sigh* Sully working it. When Sully is ahead of you when it comes of refraining from snap judgement, you need to go. It's confirmation bias.Somewhere early on, a lot of local guys latched onto a rumor that the smart pick as the starter. Almost every person on this board who went to training camp and watched the practices seemed to indicate that EJ and Tyrod were no where near as bad as Carucci was making him out to be. EJ's excellent play in the scrimmage and preseason games was diminished because Rex "cared about what he saw in practice".

Sorry Yolo, I'm seeing a dead link.

Look, I like Tyrod...and I think that we will probably go back to him as soon as he is healthy. But if an injury was going to happen, I would prefer to kick the tires and see what we have on EJ at this particular point in the season, between brutal slogs. Let's see if he can put it all together when given full reign.

It's good to hear he's expected to play. It looks like they'll need him.

The comparison I heard most was Alex Smith...which THQH would kind of perfect for Sunday. The Bengals are 4th in DE QB pressures (we are 3rd) and they are giving up more yards than we are over the air. Maybe it's time to try out those short underneath passes from the shotgun that keep getting used on us. If Sammy and Karlos are back this week, that is huge.

I enjoy how one fan says the Bengals anticipated this already and already were game planning before the story broke.

Still retweeting the original tweet without any secondary source as confirmation.

Is that what San Fran ran Roman and Harbaugh's first year?

Even if EJ is the starter next week, again, this isn't the first time Roman has had to switch out QBs and change the game plan. EJ has been compared to Alex Smith, so I see no reason why they can't go back into the drawer for those style of plays. Probably fewer devoted Read-Option runs, but a rollout or two and maybe some more shotgun.