i know we all roll our eyes at the injury stuff with this program but listening to Mario, that’s a very long term injury. My guess is coin flip at best if we see him at least through the next couple months. I’m not really sure what you can do to your shoulder via impact that’s a 4+ month injury but I’m operating under the assumption he’s out for the year and if we’re really lucky, he returns for the playoffs.
This is bad, bad, bad. He’s our best cover corner, full stop. If the pass rush is going to be a tick slower, the last thing you want is your best cover corner out.
It’s also now completely imperative everyone else in that room stays healthy, and we’re exactly one game into the season. Antione is already hurt. Lucas definitely had something going on, I guess we’ll see. Obviously we could play with Fraggle at corner on Thursday and win by 70. But Wake has some actual receivers. I’m not worried, obviously. We can score 50 on them if we need to. But this puts that room on thin ice once we get later in the year. Pitt can throw it. ND, obviously. The playoffs.
Honestly, i had OJ in my Top 10 guys we couldn’t afford to lose for the year. And that might be too low if Antoine is also out long-term.
And before anyone calls me a *****, I’m not worried about the ACC. OJ doesn’t even come close to moving the needle as far as ACC odds. But I’m here to win 3 games in the playoffs. He absolutely impacts that. If you disagree, go put the Indiana game on again.
