Bears quarterback Justin Fields dislocated his right thumb in a loss to Minnesota a month ago, which has left his team to rely on undrafted free agent and defective Cinderella story Tyson Bagent in the interim. After beating an imploding Raiders outfit in his first start, Bagent has since lived down to his Division II […]
I honestly think it was just a slip of the tongue. It felt like he was trying to play along with the NFL’s rules about the definition of Questionable vs Doubtful vs Out to leave the possibility open and force the Panthers to game plan for it. Because technically there’s another day where he could theoretically get medically cleared, and then he’d play. But then let it slip that “Yeah, he’s not playing.” And then immediately went back to the vague “Doubtful” line.
I honestly think it was just a slip of the tongue. It felt like he was trying to play along with the NFL’s rules about the definition of Questionable vs Doubtful vs Out to leave the possibility open and force the Panthers to game plan for it. Because technically there’s another day where he could theoretically get medically cleared, and then he’d play. But then let it slip that “Yeah, he’s not playing.” And then immediately went back to the vague “Doubtful” line.