re: The Offense Hasn't Been the Main Problem

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Most football players play hurt.

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Isn't that what Harris tried to do?

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If Harris was too injured to be effective

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A sports hernia is probably the least understood of all the injuries that involve professional level and collegiate level athletes. A sports hernia is a tear to the oblique abdominal muscles. Unlike a traditional hernia, the sports hernia does not create a hole in the abdominal wall. As a result, there is no visible bulge under the skin. This means making a definitive sports hernia diagnosis is difficult.

Drew Brees describing his oblique strain in 2014 & the negative effects it had on his game.

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A quarterback's power doesn't purely come from his arm, he said, but rather the strength of his core. For a while, that was lost.

"People say, 'Oh, he's got a strong arm,' but it really has very little to do with your actual arm," Brees said. "It's the way that you generate power and force, and there's certain elements to your body and the way that you throw and your strength that allow you to create that type of power."

"So anytime that you have a core injury, which the oblique is ... then that's kind of that whole rotational element loads up and creates power when you throw the ball. For a while there, I didn't have that."

Brees wouldn't reveal his other injury, but he did admit he overcompensated in other areas to try to deal with it, which caused things to worsen as the season went on.

"As I kind of worked back from (the oblique), maybe in order to protect that, I would overcompensate in other ways and develop bad habits, which worked, for a short period of time," he said, "Then all of a sudden other things started going downhill and you just get away from the good habits and the consistency of your mechanics."

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It's funny how an oblique injury can effect the play of a future Hall of Famer & one of the most accurate QBs in NFL history yet you expect it not to effect a true sophomore in college.

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Cam and Les should've pulled him.

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I'm sure you were really anxious to see Anthony Jennings get in there at QB.

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why??? Jennings got plenty of reps last year.

We need Harris to get the vast, vast majority of the game reps to get him ready for the meat of our schedule. Jennings isn't the answer. Everything should be geared toward Harris.

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Excuses.

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Sorry, you can't deal with facts.