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I am Captain Brain Injury.

I had a lot of time for Darnold in his draft year...I'm assuming he's been ridden too hard and hung up wet too many times to be salvaged at this point...?

Trading with the Texans seems to be fun...all of their trades look like a going out of business sale...

The scoreboard reflected a 60-plus point lead before halftime in favor of James Skalski’s Northgate High School football team. And yet, despite the dominance, Skalski was clearly irked.

Clemson’s redshirt graduate middle linebacker, who takes center stage in a Friday night Sugar Bowl national semifinal against Ohio State and quarterback Justin Fields, kept looking over to Northgate’s sidelines.

He knew head coach Tommy Walburn would pull his starters at the half in order to let the reserves close out the game. But first, as Walburn remembers it, Skalski still wanted a few more snaps — and the opposing offense’s inability to get its business together with one illegal formation after another kept interfering.

“They couldn’t get lined up right,” Walburn said. “The referees kept throwing flags, and they kept getting penalties.”

Skalski is known at Clemson for his ability to direct traffic pre-snap, which he began doing in this particular matchup. Only on this occasion, just outside of Atlanta, he offered his services to Northgate’s opponent.

“When (the offense) started coming out of the huddle and they started lining up, James started going up and down and telling their players, ‘You need to line up there, you need to line up there, you need to go over there,’” Walburn recalled. “He was not being mean, and he was not being ugly. He knew he didn’t have very many more plays to play. And he loved playing football.”

I had a lot of time for Darnold in his draft year...I'm assuming he's been ridden too hard and hung up wet too many times to be salvaged at this point...?

Trading with the Texans seems to be fun...all of their trades look like a going out of business sale...

The Watt/Rivers story reminds me of this story:

The scoreboard reflected a 60-plus point lead before halftime in favor of James Skalski’s Northgate High School football team. And yet, despite the dominance, Skalski was clearly irked.

Clemson’s redshirt graduate middle linebacker, who takes center stage in a Friday night Sugar Bowl national semifinal against Ohio State and quarterback Justin Fields, kept looking over to Northgate’s sidelines.

He knew head coach Tommy Walburn would pull his starters at the half in order to let the reserves close out the game. But first, as Walburn remembers it, Skalski still wanted a few more snaps — and the opposing offense’s inability to get its business together with one illegal formation after another kept interfering.

“They couldn’t get lined up right,” Walburn said. “The referees kept throwing flags, and they kept getting penalties.”

Skalski is known at Clemson for his ability to direct traffic pre-snap, which he began doing in this particular matchup. Only on this occasion, just outside of Atlanta, he offered his services to Northgate’s opponent.

“When (the offense) started coming out of the huddle and they started lining up, James started going up and down and telling their players, ‘You need to line up there, you need to line up there, you need to go over there,’” Walburn recalled. “He was not being mean, and he was not being ugly. He knew he didn’t have very many more plays to play. And he loved playing football.”

The Watt/Rivers story reminds me of this story:

The scoreboard reflected a 60-plus point lead before halftime in favor of James Skalski’s Northgate High School football team. And yet, despite the dominance, Skalski was clearly irked.

Clemson’s redshirt graduate middle linebacker, who takes center stage in a Friday night Sugar Bowl national semifinal against Ohio State and quarterback Justin Fields, kept looking over to Northgate’s sidelines.

He knew head coach Tommy Walburn would pull his starters at the half in order to let the reserves close out the game. But first, as Walburn remembers it, Skalski still wanted a few more snaps — and the opposing offense’s inability to get its business together with one illegal formation after another kept interfering.

“They couldn’t get lined up right,” Walburn said. “The referees kept throwing flags, and they kept getting penalties.”

Skalski is known at Clemson for his ability to direct traffic pre-snap, which he began doing in this particular matchup. Only on this occasion, just outside of Atlanta, he offered his services to Northgate’s opponent.

“When (the offense) started coming out of the huddle and they started lining up, James started going up and down and telling their players, ‘You need to line up there, you need to line up there, you need to go over there,’” Walburn recalled. “He was not being mean, and he was not being ugly. He knew he didn’t have very many more plays to play. And he loved playing football.”

Darnold's career as a starting QB was over when he said he was seeing ghosts in the backfield


I don't think he'll ever be able to handle pressure

I don’t know much about DeShaun Watson. I know he gets a ton of hype and costs a ton of money... he’s super unhappy in Texas. What would a trade for an established starting “star” QB even look like? The only blockbuster I can think of is when Eli and Rivers changed places but that’s not even comparable.

Sam Bradford was traded for a 1st and a 4th...
Carson Palmer was traded for 17th overall and a future 2nd...
Jay Cutler (and a 5th) was traded for 18th overall, a 3rd round pick, another 1st, and Kyle Orton...

So you're looking at a 1st and another high pick it seems to get it started...