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JAMES MAC PHERSON FROM BEACHWOOD, NJ: Read your after-the-game comments. I see that Skylar Thompson gets Player of the Week. Yes, he did good and you commented on that also. So is 8-for-9 for 84 yds a TD pass plus complete control of the game in one series against Jacksonville's first-string defense not enough for Mason Rudolph to get any credit? Or is he going to be overlooked again?

ANSWER: Putting aside for a minute that I am flabbergasted by getting push-back on picking a Player of the Week in the preseason opener, my reasoning behind going with Skylar Thompson was because he played much longer than Mason Rudolph. As I wrote, "Thompson quarterbacked the offense in 6 of it

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