This always bugs the crap out of me. Take a look at this Tweet from NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport:
Not all injury news is bad for #Bills: worst-case for RB Fred Jackson (groin) is to miss 4 weeks, I’m told. He has his eyes on 11/6 vs KC
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) October 20, 2014
Forget that odd part about how not all injury news is bad… he’s responding to someone else there and I don’t care about that. What I care about is where he says the worst case scenario is that Fred Jackson misses four weeks with his groin injury.
Wrong.
Worst case scenario with this, and any injury in the NFL, is that the player’s career is over. Granted, that’s not too likely with a groin injury, but still, that’s the worst case, right? Short of that, the worst case scenario is that Fred Jackson’s season is over. That happens. Ask 2013 DB D.J. Hayden. Or 2013 QB Seneca Wallace. Or 2013 DB Corey Webster. Or maybe Jackson comes back and the injury lingers and lingers and lingers, like it did to DB Dimitri Patterson, who missed a combined 11 games with a lingering groin injury last season.
Again, I don’t know diddle about Fred Jackson’s groin. I’m just saying, let’s stop the candy-coating already. This has the possibility to be very serious, and we’re being ignorant when we overlook that.
