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Is JJ damaged goods now?

Well, I think that with J.J. McCarthy, he was put into a position that he wasn't ready for.

And that has showed. And i think you have to be

concerned that the amount of ass kicking that he has taken this year will be very difficult to

overcome uh we've seen that from a lot of quarterbacks in the past where they come into the league

high expectations,

they get their tail whooped, and it's very hard to recover from it. And I think that now we have

gone over the line of being concerned about his ability to stay healthy. Because it's not just a

random bad luck like it was to tear the meniscus.

It's a way of playing football that if you're not seeing things down the field,

if you're not going to slide and you're just going to run right into a linebacker from the

Packers and get smashed into the turf or you're going to get run down from behind

because you're scrambling all the time like Atlanta and then you're going to get run down from behind because you're

scrambling all the time like Atlanta and then you're going to get hurt there.

And then it felt like he didn't know when to scramble and when not to scramble.

He got hit seven times in the Lions game that was pretty concerning right there.

So you're starting to worry about his ability to stay healthy.

Now, with an entire offseason, I think that he is still at the point in his career

where he could make big gains.

And he has potential.

And he's got a mentality that makes sense, you know, as somebody who's young trying

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