Orlando Guardians’ XFL quarterback offered performs to opposing groups?

By 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 recreation and completely zero factors within the second or third quarters of every recreation. 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. Nonetheless, that won’t have been his fault.

In keeping with studies, Guardians’ backup QB Quinten Dormady had been giving his crew’s offensive performs to their opponents. After being lower by the crew yesterday although, the XFL reinstated Dormady at the moment. In keeping with an announcement from XFL Vice President of Communications Jeff Altstadter, “The league is actively reviewing a personnel challenge relating to a participant on the Orlando Guardians who was launched from the crew yesterday afternoon.” The assertion continued, “Further info on the state of affairs was dropped at the eye of the league in a single day, and the league has reinstated the participant whereas it conducts a proper investigation into the problem. The state of affairs is underneath evaluation, and we are going to share extra particulars relating to the findings as acceptable.”

The assertion didn’t instantly title Dormady, nor did it make clear whether or not or not Dormady was reinstated by the league or the crew.

Two weeks in and we’ve got our first XFL controversy

Clearly, this can be a unhealthy 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 crew is objectively not nice. That mentioned, the choice to promote his crew’s performs to their opponents can be an all-time dumb transfer by Dormady, proper?

Give it some thought. If true, Dormady is both so hesitant in his personal skills that he’s attempting to make a couple of further bucks earlier than the league realizes how terrible he’s, or (extra possible) he thinks “If I promote these performs, then Paxton Lynch will do terribly in entrance of me. Then, I’ll get the chance to play and shine. Then, I’ll land an enormous contract and be set for all times!”

One drawback, dude. You and Lynch use the identical playbook! Was Dormady planning to cease promoting his crew’s performs after he was named the starter? It doesn’t make sense. When you give your performs away to your opponents, no matter who’s underneath middle, you’re going to have a troublesome time beating the protection. If something, that raises some doubt to the allegations. You’d should be tremendous duper mega dumb to tug a transfer like that.

Moreover, perhaps the Guardians are simply as unhealthy as their offense has performed. Previous to the season, they have been thought-about one of many worst groups within the league as a consequence of their inexperienced teaching workers and questionable quarterback state of affairs. Now, the crew did add Lynch a couple of weeks after these rankings got here out, however as individuals have identified, Lynch has by no means succeeded wherever he’s gone. Perhaps he simply can’t lead an offense in any respect.

Let me be clear, I’m not defending Dormady. Though we don’t know whether or not or not he gave his crew’s performs away, the Guardians will need to have had some proof to the affirmative, given how rapidly they lower Dormady after conducting their investigation. We’re presently not sure what info the league obtained that was motive sufficient to reinstate Dormady, however 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.