Probably coming from the term "head injury", but obviously it's anyone's guess right now.
RB Dion Lewis out for 2015 with torn ACL
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Just a general notice: Referencing Chao may become deemed a suspension worthy offense at some point. He's in the area of Wilbur and that sports law guy who got disbarred and is wrong about everything but who people keep citing anyway.David J. Chao, MD @ProFootballDoc 3s3 seconds ago
David J. Chao, MD Retweeted Jason Green
Can hope for just MCL but I am still worried about ACL. Hope not.
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@ProFootballDoc Can you tell anything from this photo?
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Dr. Awesome is a couple of orders of magnitude better at least. Follow him at @ChrisGearyOrtho if you are so inclined.
Yes, tongue in cheek. I don't get the worrying over his injury future due to this. He's never had a knee injury before. It was a flukey non-contact injury. We've been through this all with Amendola and Gronk -- I don't feel any different about his ability to stay healthy long-term because of today (assuming full recovery from today).
And Dr. Awesome has never lost his privileges at Scripps, or anywhere else, like Chao has. Google Chao Scripps if you're curious. Or just go to the California Medical Board site.
David J. Chao, MD @ProFootballDoc 4h4 hours ago
David J. Chao, MD Retweeted Adam Schefter
ACL loose is a VERY bad sign! Swelling for isolated tear often doesn't happen until overnight @DionLewisRB @Patriots
David J. Chao, MD Retweeted Adam Schefter
ACL loose is a VERY bad sign! Swelling for isolated tear often doesn't happen until overnight @DionLewisRB @Patriots
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Christopher Geary @ChrisGearyOrtho 8h8 hours agoFoxborough, MA
Non-contact knee injury followed by being ruled out for the game in about five minutes... Smells like an ACL for Lewis. DAMMIT. #Patriots
Lewis also played two full heavy usage college seasons at Pitt without suffering an injury that caused him to miss a game. Abdomen thing aside his only other two injuries (leg and knee) were not of the chronic variety. His injury risk moving forward is going to be high for the simple fact that he's an NFL running back but I don't see Lewis carrying any more risk than your average shifty RB.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/11/08/pats-dion-lewis-waiting-for-mri-results/
I guess this means we should know more by the morning
Point of order: Can we quote Chao in order to make fun of him and/or his drunken, malpractice-y antics?
As a source he is Incarcerated Bob or Baghdad Bob or Bob Roberts bad.
Oh shit that's a throwback to my early high school years (the good ones, before my hairline started receding). Thanks soxfan!
If we get the worst case news I wonder if they bring Cadet back in? Looks like he's still a free agent.
Probably depends on the health of the o-line. They will need to sign a FA OT or promote someone from the practice squad if both Cannon and Vollmer are still out.
And their assessment of White, of course. I'm not sure that his inactivity (as opposed to Bolden) had been due to anything other than redunancy with Lewis and the fact that he doesn't play special teams.
Any chance we might see either Amendola or Edelman take some of the snaps/functions that Lewis had? Seems like the three of them have a lot in common, both as receivers and as shifty runners in open space, and we know that both DA and JE are good blockers so conceivably they could be useful in blitz pickup.
With LaFell's successful return and reintegration into the offense, it seems like it could be a way to get all three (DA, JE, and BL) into the lineup without going 5 wide (assuming Gronk plus either Chandler or Williams)
With LaFell's successful return and reintegration into the offense, it seems like it could be a way to get all three (DA, JE, and BL) into the lineup without going 5 wide (assuming Gronk plus either Chandler or Williams)
I wonder if the 'ACL is loose' was a communication issue. Maybe what they were actually told was 'the knee was loose' and they interpreted that as ACL is loose. A sprained knee seems inevitable based on the non-contact fall to the ground grabbing the knee, but then again I'm probably trying to find hope.
This is the first name that came to my mind as a replica of White, who was a replica of the role Lewis played, for the role of "inactive emergency RB." The NFL practice squad rules really hurt a veteran like Cadet as he would have been an ideal candidate to land on the practice squad to easily be the next man up with an injury to Lewis or White.
I hope they have reason to list the injury on weekly reports, because that means he's not done for the season.
Whistling past the graveyard perhaps, but I've seen RB after RB step into this offense and be successful, and every time one of them has left they were replaced and the offense survived just fine. I hope he's not done, but the season isn't over if he is.
I'll say it again: we just need for Slater to give Lewis a Holy Wayne hug and it'll all be good.
It is plausible that (a) Lewis injury is real bad but not definitively season-ending and (b) the prognosis for Vollmer, Cannon and Mason is collectively cloudy, and so the team is gauging the severity of the O-line situation before deciding whether to hold a roster spot for Lewis in hopes of a return? I don't know that much about roster management... just trying to picture a scenario that would lead to a prolonged weighing-of-options rather than a straightforward announcement.
They might be getting a second opinion, they might be figuring out the roster, they might be exploring replacements, etc. I don't think much is gained from the team's perspective by announcing the news as quickly as possible. With Solder, the news didn't hit until Wednesday morning and that was very shortly before the team officially placed him on IR.
Basically, nobody knows and there's nothing you can productively read into the silence right now.
Basically, nobody knows and there's nothing you can productively read into the silence right now.
Jim McBride @globejimmcbride 1m1 minute ago
Tough news out of Foxborough: #Patriots RB Dion Lewis out for the season with torn ACL per team source.
Tough news out of Foxborough: #Patriots RB Dion Lewis out for the season with torn ACL per team source.
And I remember how atrocious (by Patriots standards) the offense was at the start of 2013 and how with the addition of each guy -- Gronk & Vereen in particular -- they seemed to get that much better. It's still a top offense without somebody as good as Dion in that role but my confidence that they can put up 30 on a Seahawks or Broncos defense goes down. Basically, with Dion, I'm not sure they can be stopped. Rushing out of the backfield he is the yin to Blount's yang. Need to get out of a deep 'and-long' hole? Try a screen to Dion, he'll make 45 guys miss. Need to create a mismatch on a tough defense? Split him out wide and make the defense decide which guy who is uncoverable by LBs gets covered by a LB.
Without him, one of the better defensive coordinators with the right mix of talent is likely to have sustained success. In BB I trust -- he usually finds a way to make it work but it's really hard to adjust for a big loss of talent after the trade deadline when you don't have a great replacement. Hopefully that time a good DC with a strong D has sustained success isn't in the playoffs.
The offense got better when the offensive line figured things out. I honestly think they'll be fine and would be more worried about Vollmer's injury being longer-term.
They also tore up the Jets without Lewis and didn't even try to run.
Tough loss for the offense but as the roster is constructed now, he's probably the fifth most important piece offensively.
1.) Brady
2.) Gronk
3.) Edelman
4.) Vollmer
5.) Lewis
Hopefully White can step in and provide some production. I do not want to see large doses of Brandon Bolden, even with his nice TD yesterday.
1.) Brady
2.) Gronk
3.) Edelman
4.) Vollmer
5.) Lewis
Hopefully White can step in and provide some production. I do not want to see large doses of Brandon Bolden, even with his nice TD yesterday.
Bring Cadet back. He was the guy who was supposed to fill this role before Lewis stepped up in camp.
Idk I feel like people are reacting as if we lost Gronk. It hurts no doubt. However, I'd say Lewis was objectively 4th on most important offensive player list behind 1)Brady 2) Gronk 3) Edelman. Hurts. But i don't think they'll miss much if they up Gronk's usage in passing game.