Through two weeks within the XFL season, the Orlando Guardians are 0-2, in final place within the XFL South. Their offense has been notably inept, scoring simply twelve factors in every sport and completely zero factors within the second or third quarters of every sport. Quarterback Paxton Lynch has been clowned on and memed into eternity as the one quarterback in historical past to be benched within the NFL, USFL, and now XFL. However, that will not have been his fault.
According to experiences, Guardians’ backup QB Quinten Dormady had been giving his group’s offensive performs to their opponents. After being lower by the group yesterday although, the XFL reinstated Dormady immediately. According to a press release from XFL Vice President of Communications Jeff Altstadter, “The league is actively reviewing a personnel issue regarding a player on the Orlando Guardians who was released from the team yesterday afternoon.” The assertion continued, “Additional information on the situation was brought to the attention of the league overnight, and the league has reinstated the player while it conducts a formal investigation into the issue. The situation is under review, and we will share more details regarding the findings as appropriate.”
The assertion didn’t instantly identify Dormady, nor did it make clear whether or not or not Dormady was reinstated by the league or the group.
Two weeks in and we have now our first XFL controversy
Obviously, this can be a dangerous search for the XFL if the allegations towards Dormady are true. The league is attempting to create a tradition that may compete with the NFL, and a participant sabotaging his personal group is objectively not nice. That mentioned, the choice to promote his group’s performs to their opponents could be an all-time dumb transfer by Dormady, proper?
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Think about it. If true, Dormady is both so hesitant in his personal abilities that he’s attempting to make just a few further bucks earlier than the league realizes how terrible he’s, or (extra possible) he thinks “If I sell these plays, then Paxton Lynch will do terribly in front of me. Then, I’ll get the opportunity to play and shine. Then, I’ll land a huge contract and be set for life!”
One downside, dude. You and Lynch use the identical playbook! Was Dormady planning to cease promoting his group’s performs after he was named the starter? It doesn’t make sense. If you give your performs away to your opponents, no matter who’s beneath middle, you’re going to have a tough time beating the protection. If something, that raises some doubt to the allegations. You’d should be tremendous duper mega dumb to drag a transfer like that.
Furthermore, possibly the Guardians are simply as dangerous as their offense has performed. Prior to the season, they have been thought-about one of many worst groups within the league as a result of their inexperienced teaching workers and questionable quarterback state of affairs. Now, the group did add Lynch just a few weeks after these rankings got here out, however as folks have identified, Lynch has by no means succeeded anyplace he’s gone. Maybe he simply can’t lead an offense in any respect.
Let me be clear, I’m not defending Dormady. Although we don’t know whether or not or not he gave his group’s performs away, the Guardians should have had some proof to the affirmative, given how shortly they lower Dormady after conducting their investigation. We are at present uncertain what data the league obtained that was cause sufficient to reinstate Dormady, nevertheless it needed to have been fairly eye-opening to make such a drastic transfer lower than 24 hours after the person was lower.
The Guardians play the Arlington Renegades tomorrow at 4 pm ET tomorrow. I assure Dormady received’t be the most well-liked man in that Orlando locker room earlier than the sport.