Originally posted by lamontb:
Originally posted by NinerPrideinNJ:
Originally posted by dj43:
Originally posted by NinerPrideinNJ:
His age and injury history are facts. He was released from the Texans practice squad a month ago. That is a fact.
I'm not making some baseless assumption. Knowing the above to be true, it's more than reasonable to make a determination that his current physical ability to play the position at a level that would be needed (should he see the field) is dubious at best. If it wasn't, he'd be playing.
Houston released him because they have three good CBs who are playing well, including Derek Stingley Jr who had just come off IR. They didn't need him so Ryans did him a solid by releasing him and letting Lynch know of his physical condition and ability to play at a high level again. If he wasn't, Ryans would not have made the recommendation. Remember, Shanahan said they had received good reports from Houston.
I'll gladly eat crow. He's a guy you absolutely want to root for, I'm just tempering any sort of expectations.
Sadly i'm with you on this. I dont think dude has much left in the tank. But sure will be happy if he does
It's always good to hold expectations to a reasonable level.
My position is based on the relationship between Shanahan, Lynch, and Ryans. Ryans and Lynch both know what a good CB should look like. We didn't push back on allowing Ryans to take Slowik to Houston and I believe that relationship may mean DR owes us a favor. With Mooney's injury looking like it could be a while (no report yet) before he is full-go again, having another experienced guy in the room makes sense. It can't hurt.
