Ryan benched?

[1965southpaw]

Originally Posted by Hoopsdoc

Total desperation time. Unless he’s legitimately hurt.

Apparently Reich said they were going to Ehlinger anyway even if Ryan weren’t hurt. That seems weird to me. Why say that?

Saying that was completely unnecessary. Now it’s gonna be hard to go back to Ryan if they need to. Which they will because Ehlinger blows.

Just say Sam is starting because Ryan is hurt.

JMV is reporting that it’s believed they plan to stick with Ehlinger through the rest of the season and that Irsay leaned hard on them to go that direction. JMV didn’t say this explicitly but implied that Irsay would prefer we put ourselves in better drafting position if Ehlinger sucks. Of course nobody would admit to such publicly.