Whew, what a Superbowl, eh? (Insert inappropriate, non-neutral-toned Patriots fan gloating here) I feel a little guilty that I haven’t posted in a solid month, but I’ve been equally buried in snow and backlogged NFL injuries. If you’ve followed this blog through the 2014 season, you have a pretty good idea of the formula I was working on.… Read More »
I always lead with too much fluff, so I’ll get right to it. I see a possible monster day for Seattle, particularly for Marshawn Lynch. With my narrow focus on injuries, I feel like I sometimes notice things that others do not. (Of course, I miss plenty that others see, so there’s that too). In this week’s Carolina… Read More »
Okay, so it’s not exactly objective to refer to an injury as, “gross,” but I’ll bet I can bring you over to my side in three paragraphs… starting now. In yesterday’s game, Tennessee DB Michael Griffin dislocated his left shoulder, and then somehow returned to the game. As I’ve ranted about before, sometimes media reports on injuries are… Read More »
Did everyone see how Ravens CB Jimmy Smith’s foot injury changed today? Smith went down in Week 8 with what the Ravens were careful to call a, “midfoot sprain.” Immediately after the injury, coach Jim Harbaugh was very vocal and precise about exactly what the injury was (and wasn’t) when he said this: Jimmy is going to be… Read More »
Washington tackle Trent Williams was injured on Sunday with what we now know to be an MCL sprain. For once, I’m going to go against my own pessimistic grain on this one. I’m not going to dig up any MCL sprain return-to-play examples or compare Williams to any past players. Anyone know why? Because Trent Williams is perhaps… Read More »
I thought about making this case on Sunday, but that seemed a little rash. Thought about it again on Monday, but held back. But enough already, I’m coming out with both barrels blazing now. This is bullshit. Anyone know what I’m talking about? Let me take a deep breath and start from the beginning. In Sunday’s Bengals game,… Read More »
Yeah okay, that title is a stretch. But the story is good, so I’ll make it up to you in the end. Mike Florio over at ProFootballTalk wrote a good piece about Percy Harvin today. As usual, I’d love it if you read the whole thing yourself, but whatevs, I’ll recap here. Florio does a nice job of… Read More »
I think we’ve been hoodwinked. I can’t prove it yet, but something stinks. Bad. And it’s not just the cushion of this office chair I spend hours on. Have you been following Jimmy Graham’s magical shoulder lately? I have. (Of course I have…this is what I do all day, aside from stink up the aforementioned office chair cushion).… Read More »
For a lot of people, Victor Cruz’s patellar tendon rupture might’ve been the first time they had heard of this particular injury. It doesn’t happen much, and it certainly happens way less than the usual gaggle of knee injuries. Everyone could tell that it sounded bad, but nobody seemed to know much beyond that… even some of the… Read More »
I don’t really need to say it, do I? You don’t actually need a data-driven tool to tell you that Matt Cassel is done for the year, do you? I thought not. In case you can’t read between the lines (or maybe on the lines in this case), anytime a coach says that a player has, “several fractured… Read More »