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Boarhounds · week 15 · 2020

Bridger Tindall was not supposed to be here

Hal Vandergrift, veteran beat

Bridger Tindall QB
Boarhounds

I have been doing this long enough to have written off men like Bridger Tindall, who was found at a regional combine by a scout whose flight had been cancelled. 143 yards is the league's way of saying nothing is settled. Out of Pitchfork A&M, which sends one of these to the league about once a decade. It counts the same as anybody else's.

4,410 yards over four seasons. Sixty-seven touchdowns. Forty-six games. There was a 1,519-yard year in there. This is not it.

He turned twenty-seven this year. He is from Gdansk, Poland. Ask anybody: he is popular in a way that does not show up anywhere useful.

Boarhounds, 5-9, and fifteen weeks gone. Oscar Kearse is in year forty of it.

Tindall has a rule about not reading anything written about him, which he breaks.

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