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My take on the piece was the same as yours. I was particularly encouraged by the final quotes from Dr. Wilk. Imagine if the headline had been "Dr. Says Brady Chances of Not Being the Same 1 in 2M"?
What?!? A positive headline in the news? Never happen. They wish that they could have gotten a doctor who said there is there is a one in a zillion shot that Brady may lose his leg so they could run with the headline: "Doctor: Brady may have his leg amputated". That is more likely than them using your headline.
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Serious uncertainty. Sounds like he will not be ready for TC and probably a good bit therafter. Makes me think that the team will be looking for a little QB insurance this summer. I wonder what they would have to sacrifice to pony up the money to keep Cassel? Is it even possible given what other teams will offer?
Whoa, wait a sec. This is nothing more than a fairly in depth piece written about the surgery and the infection.
Lets not start with the Sky is Falling
Did you miss this part?
"If someone wanted to bet me today if Brady makes it back, I would not bet against him, no way," said Kevin Wilk, who as associate clinical director of Birmingham, Ala.,-based Champion Sports Medicine works closely with Dr. James Andrews and who has helped more than 500 NFL players recover from ACL surgery. "He'll make it back because he's a smart guy, a pro athlete with the best of medical care.
"They're not going to let him fail. They're going to do everything humanly possible. Unless something goes really weird, something that was a 1 in 2 million shot, he's going to make it back and back at the same level."
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Serious uncertainty. Sounds like he will not be ready for TC and probably a good bit therafter. Makes me think that the team will be looking for a little QB insurance this summer. I wonder what they would have to sacrifice to pony up the money to keep Cassel? Is it even possible given what other teams will offer?
Did your knee hit the table when it jerked like that? It says that NOWHERE in the article.
Even if Brady is 100% going into TC I still want us to keep Cassel in the fold.
Given the caliber of QB talent around the league right now, good luck with that. . . .
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I read the piece as very positive, but cautionary. That's probably how we should be thinking about this.
The Odds are good that he's going to be fine and return to his prior form. But there is always uncertainty with an injury like this, compounded, in this case, by the infection. So, we should be hopeful and indeed optimistic, but not feel "blindsided" if it turns out he's not ready for TC and there is a delay in his return either to the lineup or his old level of play.
As for keeping Matt, it's starting to look like he's developing into at least a solid and possibly a very good NFL starting QB. The Salary Cap is, however, not designed to allow a team to carry two skill position players at top salaries, which would have to happen in order to franchise him or meet the market price that would be set for him, given how desperate some other teams are for a quality starter at that position. I'm sure they could manipulate the money so they can do it, but it would mean shorting other positions. So, some tough decisions could lie ahead, complicated by what will be at least some degree of uncertainy about TB until the summer.
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I read the piece as very positive, but cautionary. That's probably how we should be thinking about this.
The Odds are good that he's going to be fine and return to his prior form. But there is always uncertainty with an injury like this, compounded, in this case, by the infection. So, we should be hopeful and indeed optimistic, but not feel "blindsided" if it turns out he's not ready for TC and there is a delay in his return either to the lineup or his old level of play.
As for keeping Matt, it's starting to look like he's developing into at least a solid and possibly a very good NFL starting QB. The Salary Cap is, however, not designed to allow a team to carry two skill position players at top salaries, which would have to happen in order to franchise him or meet the market price that would be set for him, given how desperate some other teams are for a quality starter at that position. I'm sure they could manipulate the money so they can do it, but it would mean shorting other positions. So, some tough decisions could lie ahead, complicated by what will be at least some degree of uncertainy about TB until the summer.
Well said.
Tom has almost 10 months to recover before the first game of 2009, does anyone REALLY think Tom F'n Brady won't be ready?
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Tom has almost 10 months to recover before the first game of 2009, does anyone REALLY think Tom F'n Brady won't be ready?
Well, I am guessing that he will be. The media loves to feed on stories like these and make it a doomsday scenario. I remember when Carson Palmer blew out his knee (worse than Brady because he dislocated his knee and tore cartlidge) in the playoffs in January, people in the media said it was career ending. The guy threw for over 4,000 yards and didn't miss any time the next season.
News is entertainment now. Fear sells. That is why we hear gas prices will go to $10 before they ever hit $2 again. The Y2k bug was going to have planes falling from the sky. Everyone in the world are going to die of either Mad Cow Disease, SARS, AIDS, or the Bird Flu in the next few years.
Brady suffering a setback that puts his recovery back a month and half doesn't sell. Him potentially missing the 2009 season or forced to retire is big news. Who cares if he is more likely to be ready to practice in passing camp than miss the regular season next year (not sure if that is true, but just saying it to make a point)? That isn't news enough.
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