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J.J. McCarthy showed real promise before season-ending surgery, and more preseason impressions thus far

We finally are getting the drip of football games to watch and respond to (and re-respond to, and re-re-respond to, and ...). Wasn’t it great?

Now that the dust has settled on our first preseason games, I took a gander around the NFL and what stood out to me (and what has me reevaluating and confirming prior takes).

Those first games were a reminder of how fun football is, and how sloppy preseason football is. It also was a stark reminder of the downsides of this great game. Like, say, injuries that come out of nowhere to a team’s first-round quarterback!