Something to think about. Questionable means roughly a 50% chance a guy will play. That means we'll probably lose 2 or 3 of these guys to the inactive list.
In Bulaga's case, it's probably a foregone conclusion that he's not going to play, or at least won't play long. Not only has he been battling an injured ankle, the flu bug caught him, and he was sent home from practice at least twice. From what I heard, he never even had time with the training crew, to work on his ankle. That makes it a little more difficult for him, since he hasn't been able to work to strengthen it, and stay on track physically, to play.
Bakhtiari has a hamstring injury. If he plays, there's an extremely high possibility he will cause more damage to the hamstring, and could end up missing an extensive amount of time. Looking back at how it happened with Matthews missing time, and I'm almost saying that they should leave him out of the game plan, and get him well, for the entire season. We don't need him hobbled like Matthews was when he had the same problem.
Without Daniels, we have absolutely no inside push to the QB. The guy "is" our anchor, and forces QBs to make decisions sooner than they'd like. He also anchors against the run as well as anyone I've seen so far this year. He'll probably play some, but won't be as effective. Someone has to step up.
Brooks is out. Concussion. Enough said.
Brice will probably suit up, but play very little. I'd guess he's going to have his hand well protected. It might effect tackling, and the ability to catch a football, so he could be a scratch come game time. Hard to say.
This is a pretty large number of players already hurting, just one game in. I hope we don't continue in this direction.
