The Pats Injury Watch: Collins & Jones
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Two missed practices - including the final one of the week. I think it's safe to be very concerned about Gronk's health for Saturday. Fucking shit...
This Gronk injury is strange. He played almost all the way through the Miami game (mostly blocking), and when Brady was pulled, he was pulled. Has he been dealing with this for awhile? Did he get hurt during the bye week?
Do we think that he got hurt at some point at the end of the Miami game, or tweaked it in practice? For once, I'm actually not super concerned about this, if only because he was playing and moving around well the last time we saw him, and he will be (hopefully) able to get through the walk-throughs. I'm cautiously optimistic that this is just BB recognizing how much more effective the offense is with Gronk as healthy as possible, and letting him take it easy.
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Also gotta question the logic of traveling to Florida this weekend if his knee is still having issues. That one does not make sense to me.
I was under the impression that flying could hurt swelling and recovery. If I am wrong about this then I withdraw my complaint.
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This seems like maintenance. At this point in the season, classroom,film, limited light practice/walk through should be all he needs to prepare. They need(please!!) to get 3 more productive games out of him. And I seriously doubt sitting around a pool in Florida for a couple days has fuck-all to do with anything.
Its odd. Gun to head Id guess rest as well, but missing two entire practices during the week before a playoff game is odd. They let Gronk march to the beat of his own drum a bit with injuries and comfort level, hopefully that's all this is and Gronk isn't tentative on Saturday.
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He was injured earlier and came back. Now they are just trying to make sure he doesn't tweak anything before the most important stretch of the season.
There's been nothing to show this is a new injury. They're taking precautions with one of the most valuable guys on the roster.
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By all reports Gronk isn't an issue in terms of his playing on Saturday, but this raises my concern level for sure.
Injection can't be a good thing. What would the injection be? I assume if they were draining it they would have said drained and not injected. Paging @DaveRoberts'Shoes DaveRobertsShoes please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Sounds like he got a cortisone injection, maybe they did it under the xray just to be super sure it went into the knee - that would explain the "hospital" part of it
I just generally assume that it's a cortisone shot, if it is something that's trying to get guys back sooner in the short-term.
Interesting article about that here: http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130730/PC20/130739937
Oh, and I'm fucking concerned about his status for Saturday. I'm sure he'll play, but who knows how limited he'll be. The health issues this year can eat the fattest one.
Im more worried about getting tentative, 70% speed Gronk then him not playing, but its not good. They still have enough to win a home game with the Chiefs, but going to get harder after that if Gronk isn't full go or very close to it.
They wouldn't do that two days before a game, it had to be cortisone
How quickly can one play after a cortisone shot? [I'm shaky on remembering when/how/if/why baseball players get it but remember a "waiting period" sometimes associated with injections?]
It's very odd that Gronk played these last few games and is now getting a cortisone shot two days before our first playoff game.
It didn't seem like BB was trying to win vs. NY or Miami. Why didn't they just put Gronk on the figurative DL and just let him fully recover?
It didn't seem like BB was trying to win vs. NY or Miami. Why didn't they just put Gronk on the figurative DL and just let him fully recover?
Gronk wasn't even on the injury report the last week or two of the regular season. Clearly something happened at practice to aggravate it.
Or the implication being that he participated in something incredibly friggin' stupid when he was in Ft Myers.
timeline (* = speculation):
He was partying over the weekend; practiced Monday - looked good (there's film of him darting through a footwork drill) *tweaked it or worse following the media portion of practice*; didn't practice Tuesday *resting the recent re-injury*; practiced yesterday, but was limited *made an attempt to get back out there, but with only mixed results*; missed practice and had an in-hospital injection today.
He was partying over the weekend; practiced Monday - looked good (there's film of him darting through a footwork drill) *tweaked it or worse following the media portion of practice*; didn't practice Tuesday *resting the recent re-injury*; practiced yesterday, but was limited *made an attempt to get back out there, but with only mixed results*; missed practice and had an in-hospital injection today.
Or that they want to give him every possible advantage before the postseason.
So much for getting a healthy squad back. They may be able to beat KC at home with decoy Gronk, but probably not anybody else. This doesn't seem like something that is going to be healing before the offseason. Maybe the Superbowl bye week will get him close if they do manage.
It's starting to feel like a game thread after McDaniels calls a run on 3rd and 6 in the first quarter
Really. Sometimes I think the name of this placed should be Sons of Chicken Little.
We were MUCH healthier last year
This feels similar to 2 years ago where we just didn't have the horses to go into Denver and give a competitive game
A lot will be determined by how JE11 and Gronk look in the 1st qtr on Saturday
Dude, the preferred nomenclature is Sons of Nancies, which by the way, is moderated by BSF.
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I only know of two Nancy's. Reagan and Drew and they're both bad asses so that doesn't work for me.
KC has lost their best 2 offensive players since the season started. Denver's QB sucks (I mean, Brady's crappy game against Miami generated a higher passer rating than Manning for this season). Pittsburgh may be without their top 3 offensive players from when the season started.
They'll still have more horses on both side of the ball than in 2013 and wont face a harder spot than that game at Denver until the Super Bowl. They were certainly healthier last year, but its not time to panic.
I don't see anything wrong with people saying "this is starting to feel like it's not the year." Pretty much every important player on the team is banged up except for Butler and a couple D-lineman. Things aren't all sunshine and roses. I hope they'll figure it out, and trust them to, but I don't think anyone should be surprised if the team plays like less than a juggernaut Sunday.