Will be interesting to see how Daboll's offense looks with an experienced QB, if they really were doing things like only half-field reads etc with Allen
Losing the locker room to me is the #1 reason to not start Peterman (abilities aside)
Another thing is that if DA starts, JA can shadow him during the week(s) and see how a real veteran QB prepares and hopefully learn some things
That's what I'm wondering (above). People are going down Tommy John surgery path and not sure any reports have even confirmed tear. Could it just be a contact injury (pain/swelling) without structural damage (tearing)
The thing is though the final injury occurred as a result of a hit - not throwing. So is your thought then that it was already injured/hurting - and the hit was something that just put it over the edge? Seems weird to me to suffer a sprain (classic definition of tear) as a result of a hit - although I guess if it was perfectly placed it could have put force on the bones/joint to stretch/tear the ligament. Might it be possible it's not a sprain at all - just a contact injury associated with the ligament (contusion/swelling)?
Not really - the amount of phantom PI they have benefited from over the years is unprecedented. It is a healthy combination of calls made in their favor (that no one else gets) and calls that should be made against them that aren't
I understand, but you can easily treat it as part of the uniform. The whole point of the horse collar rule is safety - to prevent injury from being hauled down from the back of the neck - the exact same injury risk exists when grabbing the hair.
The obvious solution is just don't have long hair sticking out to grab - but I don't understand why the horsecollar rule doesn't include hair - it has the same risk of injury (probably even more so) as yanking on the back of the pads