Quote:I think it's because

1. The injury happened a lot earlier for Dante

2. He's already a Jag.


Four months is a long time, a third of the year. Basically a whole football season. It matters, man. Plus, he's already a Jag. Of course there's cause for concern but we have hitched our wagon to him already. We are supposed to have hope in him. If this happened before the draft like Myles Jack, maybe that's different. But he's ours. We didn't draft a risk. Myles would be drafting a risk. But both will be ready by Week 1

 

1. The injury happened earlier for Dante, yes. But as I already alluded to, his injury is typically a 12 month recovery time where as Myles is a 4-6 month. Myles is already at the end of that time frame, while Dante is still 2-3 months away from the 12 month mark.

 

2. That's not what I'm getting at though. It doesn't matter that he's already ours. Yes, we're supposed to "hope" that he comes back healthy. Yes, we're supposed to "hope" that he's an impact player.

 

But that's not what is happening if you believe the FO and the fans. To quote Dave Caldwell...

 

"Let's not forget we used a third pick on Dante Fowler, Jr. last year who is a LEO. In our scheme only one LEO can play on the field at a time, especially in base packages. So we need some depth there behind Dante, and he's doing extremely well"

 

That's not hoping.

 

That's completely penciling in Fowler to be a full-time starter without really any other alternative.

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