I had a grade three (complete tear) calf strain playing soccer a couple of years ago and pulled up like he did there, then turned around to see who threw a rock at my leg. Had to hop/limp home and it took a while and a bunch of PT to get back to sports. I am, however, a 45 year old weekend warrior not a twenty-something professional athlete with access to top medical care, but I'd think he'd be laid up for a while if it's a grade three.
That's funny. I honestly almost wrote "Sorry, @luckiestman" when I was typing out Jets.
There’s obviously more factors. I was just sharing what I thought was an interesting observation I read. It is more common for players to be taken off on a cart in the preseason with lesser injuries. Certainly didn’t claim any proof that it’s not a serious injury.
Yes, I have done this injury 3 times myself. When it tears it absolutely feels like a rock or golf ball has smashed into your calf muscle. You can get back to a normal walking gait in a few days, but really being able to push off and run with the damaged calf takes longer.
One of the morning shows on ESPN I was watching said the calf was bothering Burrow the day before and that’s why he was wearing the sleeve.
The word "Strain" tends to be used for lower grade injuries in common discussion, but the word in theory doesn't actually imply anything about the grade. You can have a "grade 3 strain", which basically means a high grade tear.
Yeah but burrow is a gritty gamer with swag so I’ll bet he has a high pain tolerance and gets back much faster
Lol.
The thing to put money on is week 1. He'll be there for that. But, agree on anything before that.
It's really never a good idea to take a RB in the 1st round unless they are a generational talent, and his career here and overall was pretty underwhelming. Still, his 2018 playoff run can go down as perhaps the best postseason of any Pats RB in history. 336 yards and 6 TDs, those are numbers that no other RB in this run (Smith, Dillon, Faulk, Maroney, White, Woodhead, Green-Ellis, Vereen, Blount, Burkhead and Lewis) came come close to touching.
Yikes. This could get ugly. He is due $4.3M base salary this year and I believe the NFI list doesn’t require teams to pay their players’ base salaries on the list.
Wonder when the union steps in given how NFI works if Taylor is outright denying the condition.
That playoff run for him was great, and he was very in sync with the line, making a lot of smart, good plays. He just never seemed to have a real burst or be able to make exceptional, explosive plays like some of his UGA highlights would suggest, which I'm sure was a result of accumulated injury.
No, the XFL has that too--you indicate you want to onside kick and then teams line up under traditional rules. It's just there would be no "surprise" onside kicks.
This is exactly what I’ve been advocating for the minute the NFL changed the rules on how you line up for kickoffs. Glad to see they’re considering it. It makes all the sense in the world, which, of course, is why the NFL didn’t adopt it.
Makes sense. Change of possession so won't cause any delay most of the time.
The problem is that if you kick it really hard toward the sideline, all the receiving team guy needs to do is get out of the way, and it will go out of bounds. If you kick it really hard to the up man at center, then he can get out of the way and that ball goes all the way to the goal line.
Dont kick it *that* hard!! Just hard enough to make a guy near the middle think he can play it. It won't make it likely that the kicking team will recover it. I just think it's slightly better odds. Like blackjack vs roulette. (IANAK)
For whatever it's worth, while that was an option available, I don't think it was ever used. All the XFL's "onside kicks" were a 4th and 15 play from scrimmage.
https://www.xfl.com/rules
