West Notes:
Cardinals: Versus the Bengals. Baker is limited, but trending to play. He has only got what’s there in the formula as a true free safety this season. But of course he always has his talent “upside”. Who knows, maybe we see the Cardinals move him to the strong safety position sense letting Swearinger go. Did you all get the red flag post on here last week about Swearinger?
As for the Clay Twitter post below. There isn’t a clear call yet on who plays and at what position. Deionte Thompson does have the upper hand to get his shot according to the prior snap counts. We’re suggesting we wait and see before we go inserting into lineups.
Rams: Versus the Seattle. It is too bad that Rapp is looking doubtful. As we mentioned last week he had been trending and getting more and more playing time. And that would likely have set him up as a nice deep bye week play this contest. We are going to go ahead and say it, but as we mentioned it is doubtful he plays.
With that being said, enter Marqui Christian. He was basically last years “Rapp” in terms of playing as the third safety. He wasn’t terrible at his job either. And with the Rams already ruling out starting linebacker Hager, his odds increase a bit more as a double deep bye week play. We say double deep because as there are indications he’ll “fill in”, we don’t know to what extent. That’s risky when we likely have other deep bye week plays to look at.
Seahawks: Versus the Rams. As marked. And noting, McDougald is solid enough via the formula, but Thompson didn’t have any “upside” on paper. He just got back from injury last contest so maybe we see a bit more out of him going forward. but this isn’t the week to see if this is the case.
49ers: Versus the Bengals. This one is a bit disappointing. Because on paper the match up is solid. And we could have securely said via the free safety position that Moore would have been a deep bye week play. But now Ward is rumored to be returning this week from a finger injury and just might send Moore to the bench. And then there is the question on how much or how ready Ward is. He has been out sense week one.
So, let’s go this way with this double deep bye week play. Are you feeling lucky? Because via the formula on the match-up the free safety position is solid, and actually with some “upside”. We suppose if you want to watch the pre-game reports and then jump on the risk you’ll have about 50/50 odds on this working out. It’s too bad, a good situation with a “catch-22”.