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If you have this amazing talent for predicting who becomes a productive NFL player before the draft maybe you should give us your opinion on this year's players. You know, before they are drafted. Without the benefit of hindsight.
Weird how Tavon Austin (8), Justin Hunter (34), C. Patterson (29) or Robert Woods (41), who were all taken before Dobson (59), are all not doing that great at WR either. Maybe drafting is actually not that easy?
If you have this amazing talent for predicting who becomes a productive NFL player before the draft maybe you should give us your opinion on this year's players. You know, before they are drafted. Without the benefit of hindsight.
Weird how Tavon Austin (8), Justin Hunter (34), C. Patterson (29) or Robert Woods (41), who were all taken before Dobson (59), are all not doing that great at WR either. Maybe drafting is actually not that easy?
Mike Reiss @MikeReiss 3m3 minutes ago
As one would expect, no sign of WR Aaron Dobson (hamstring) at today's practice. Wouldn't be surprised if he lands on IR based on timing.
Potentially his spot goes to Siliga. They already have Tyms on the roster and 2 WRS on the PS, so I see no need to sign another.
It turned into a dumpster fire when they made him play on his busted foot.
It was last year he played on it for a week.I'm going to highly disagree here, since no one 'made him' play on a broken foot.
As a matter of fact, he was given about 3x the length of time to heal this summer as opposed to the initial projection, and they took the injury situation extremely cautiously.
I'm going to highly disagree here, since no one 'made him' play on a broken foot.
As a matter of fact, he was given about 3x the length of time to heal this summer as opposed to the initial projection, and they took the injury situation extremely cautiously.
It was last year he played on it for a week.
If you're basing that on just this year, Fly, then you are late to the story.
They screwed up and had him playing on it LAST YEAR.
If you have this amazing talent for predicting who becomes a productive NFL player before the draft maybe you should give us your opinion on this year's players. You know, before they are drafted. Without the benefit of hindsight.
Weird how Tavon Austin (8), Justin Hunter (34), C. Patterson (29) or Robert Woods (41), who were all taken before Dobson (59), are all not doing that great at WR either. Maybe drafting is actually not that easy?
If you're basing that on just this year, Fly, then you are late to the story.
They screwed up and had him playing on it LAST YEAR.
I was at the Buffalo game (last game of the season) when he tried to come back too soon after injuring it a few weeks earlier against the Broncos. The minute he started limping our whole section was yelling about why the hell couldn't they have given this kid's foot a couple more weeks rest with the playoff bye coming up. You could see in warmups that he looked like he was skating out there - - it was raining hard and the field was a mosh pit. It was assinine to play him in that meaningless game with him obviously not 100% on that foot.
They then screwed up royally AGAIN by waiting until March before having him undergo the corrective surgery (in the hopes that it would fix on its own - - giving it the rest they would not give it for the meaningless Buffalo monsoon game). This left him unable to do OTAs or TC at full participation.
In the meantime, 4 weeks later, on April 10th, the Patriots fired Dr. Gill. Perhaps there's no connection. But one must admit, there has been alot of indecision and bad moves in the way this had been handled.
I agree with almost everything you said here. There was no need to get him reps on a foot that was obviously badly injured in a meaningless game. The only thing I would disagree with is the part about the surgery. In my non medical opinion, surgery should always be a last resort. Even if it costed him mini camp, it's worth it in my opinion to see if it would heal on it's own. Now granted, we don't have the information that the medical staff had. Maybe they were 90 percent sure it needed surgery and wasted valuable time, but my guess is that they truly wanted to see how the foot healed without opening the thing up and putting screws in. Theres no going back from getting cut open. Overall, this situation has been very unfortunate. I really liked the way he played in 2013.
It turned into a dumpster fire when they made him play on his busted foot.