05-18-2021, 05:03 PM
(05-18-2021, 03:56 PM)Au165 Wrote: Even media personalities were insinuating it could result in him missing part if not all the season. It was all blown way out of proportion quickly.
Key word in that sentence is "could". Saying he could miss time is not at all an unreasonable take. In fact, it was the correct one.
What I saw that day (at least on these boards) was a few people guarantee he would be back on time. Some people pushed back against this, and were simply trying to point out that it is a long process that does not at all produce a guaranteed timeline.
We could hope he's back on time, we could even say we think it's likely he's back on time, but what we can't do is make guarantees about it 9 months in advance. That's just silly.
Even in the article above it clearly states that "he's on track". That's a good thing, a great thing even. It's still, to this day, some 6 months later not a 100% guarantee.
I've never understood some of things on here that get labeled as negative. Entertaining the idea that there was a possibility that Joe Burrow might miss some time is completely understandable. And of course that gets met with some of the homers taking offense to something completely innocuous.
