12-13-2019, 06:27 PM
(12-13-2019, 05:38 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: So do you think 1.) The Bengals straight up lied about his injury, while throwing AJ under the bus with a unrealistic timetable or 2.) They are so inept that they misdiagnosed the injury?
It has to be one or the other. They either knowingly lied, multiple times, about the severity of the injury and it's recovery time, or they completely misdiagnosed it. Curious to see what some of you choose.
PS Which Eifert ankle injury are you referring to? He's been sidelined so many times I'm honestly not sure. Surely, you're not referring to when he had the gruesome break, where Krumried his ankle are you?
I know you are familiar with Rich Braham’s bone bruise which was really a tibial plateau fracture. Yes, the Bengals straight up lied about his injury.
The latest example is John Ross’ shoulder injury which was later reported as a sternoclavicular injury. That’s a chest wall injury, not a shoulder injury. Then Hobson reported it was broken after he returned from IR. So 1) medical jargon can be difficult to understand and report which probably explains why a chest wall injury is reported as a shoulder injury and 2) the Bengals definitely withheld the information about the fracture. And we still don’t know if it was the clavicle, manubrium, or sternum, where it was located within those bones, if it was a complete, avulsion, or comminuted fracture, and if there was a posterior or anterior dislocation of the sternoclavicular joint because all of that would affect the treatment and prognosis. An anterior SC joint dislocation is no big deal. A posterior dislocation could be life threatening. So just a little bit of information such as which way a clavicle dislocates makes a big difference in the treatment and recovery
I was referring to Eifert’s Pro Bowl ankle sprain. They originally thought it would heal nonsurgically or Eifert was given a choice between conservative or surgical treatment and he chose conservative. Conservative treatment didn’t go as hoped and they had to perform surgery. So it took much longer for an ankle sprain to heal than usually expected.
So Green could be malingering or he could still be legitimately rehabbing an injury. We don’t have enough information to definitively conclude one way or the other.
