Joe Burrow Injury Update

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(11-23-2020, 05:30 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: When you're dealing with facts, science and precedent, you have a pretty-good idea of things are/will turn out.

Break down the, "worse than initially-hoped," statement; how is it worse? Why is it worse?

"The MCL is injured too! And structural damage! Woe is us!"

So? If the timeline for something to heal is 6 months, it's 6 months, unless the person has an immune system issue or is diabetic; just like women have their period every 28 days (give or take) and ***** Sapien births take 9 months (give or take a few weeks), if Joe eats right, rehabs correctly and doesn't do anything stupid (which he won't), IE there aren't any anomalies (or in this case, setbacks) he'll heal in the allotted time and be ready to go.

Extra damage means nothing, unless it takes longer to heal (which in Joe's case, it doesn't). The reason why guys like Bridgewater and Smith had such a long and grueling rehab, is due to injuring tissue that takes longer to heal than an ACL (Bridgewater) and an anomaly (Smith).

This is why people really need to get informed and do some legwork research on their own, instead of just reading blanket statements and assuming the worst.

It is exasperating to see people fly off the handle, especially with what happened yesterday.

EDIT* Oh for the love of God, I can't write the shortened version of, "Homogenized?" (that's not what it means, but it'll tell you what word was starred out lol)

Second Edit: This is an excellent article that breaks down Bridgewater's injury, without getting too technical or difficult to understand.

After reading this, you can see that Joe's injury isn't even in the same realm.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/patriots/2016/09/03/just-how-bad-teddy-bridgewater-injury/wg8Pw16lWjYEA3b8b9d67N/story.html

FINAL EDIT* and another one:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/08/22/teddy-bridgewaters-horribly-grotesque-knee-injury-even-freaked-out-his-surgeon/

Trust me. I know he’s likely to come through it just fine. But saying you don’t understand why people don’t like seeing the future of the franchise in this situation doesn’t make sense. No matter how good the medicine is there always a chance things don’t turn out great. And it’s just another straw on the camels back right now on this perennially snake bit franchise. If you tell me your first reaction to seeing him lying there was ‘eh it’ll heal just fine and all will be great’ I’d have to think you’re lying.

The rest of this season is pretty much not worth watching if nothing else. Unless you like seeing this team beaten down further than they are.