Jerod Mayo suffers knee injury

So who gets the green dot now?

pheenix11 said:

So who gets the green dot now?

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Please not Chung... Hightower if he's back right?

DaBruinz said:

What about the 4.25M in guaranteed money that Mayo has for next season due to the option that was picked up? If he's cut due to a failed physical due to the knee injury, wouldn't that apply?

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Great catch. Somehow I looked at my Mayo documentation twice and missed that.

if his season is over its pretty much the same stats as last year 6 games played over 50 tackles and a sack. hope he gets better soon

This is going to hurt. I am gutted about Ridley, but feel we can minimise the damage there. This is a knife in the gut of the D.

Next man up anyway...we know how to deal with adversity

alvinnf said:

Unfortunate. Next man up.

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True. But I can't help but feel his loss will loom large when we face teams like Denver, SD, GB and even the Bears with Forte being such a threat in the passing game. You don't just replace someone like Mayo for his play and the fact that he's the QB of the defense. Losing Mayo is more like 'next men up' because it takes multiple players to replace him.

JDot said:

Ugh, this really sucks. Feel bad for Jerod.

Pats are really, really thin at LB right now. Yikes.

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This is the scenario so many feared in training camp. We're living it now.

Skinner, while bringing absolutely nothing close to what Mayo does, looks poised to benefit... anyone have any thoughts on him? James Anderson would have been nice to have around right now as he could have been valuable on passing downs.

As bad as i feel for the loss of Mayo for the team i feel worse for Mayo as a person t

notex said:

Skinner, while bringing absolutely nothing close to what Mayo does, looks poised to benefit... anyone have any thoughts on him? James Anderson would have been nice to have around right now as he could have been valuable on passing downs.

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Well the first game he played i commented that he shouldn't be allowed to wear #55. Hopefully hes improved, he looked fast on his sack of orton up the middle

James Anderson is on the Titans roster.

Miguel said:

James Anderson is on the Titans roster.

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The guy I wanted was former Ravens LB Josh Bynes, who has played decently as a starter in the past. The Ravens cut him and I wanted to pick him up. He was re-signed to the Ravens' PS, and then Detroit snatched him after Stephen Tulloch's injury. Bynes is an excellent STer with solid positional skills, who would have been a nice depth addition, especially after Mayo's injury.

I guess we will find out later about his injury after his and Ridley's MRI's. If he is done for the year, how good/bad is Skinner? Or J. Davis? Too bad we can't bring Anderson back. Any other decent free agents out there?

While Mayos injury is devistating for the team and him personally, we have to remember this team made it all the way to the AFCCG last year with out him and a lot of other starters and key players lost to injury including VW

Joey007 said:

Acl injury + being a RB is normally a very bad combination if you're not Adrian Peterson.

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Used to be, not so much anymore. Frank Gore tore both ACLs. Jamaal Charles tore his a couple years ago. Peterson, as you mentioned. Knowshon Moreno came back fine from his. I don't think ACL tears will ever be totally trivial, but surgery and rehab have advanced so much over the past ~15 years that it's nowhere near the big deal that it was back when it effectively ended the careers of guys like Terrell Davis. Ridley will be back at something close to 100% next year, and barring further injuries will be 100% in 2016. The only question in my mind is if he'll be running for us or someone else.

Up until yesterday, I would've guessed that he'd end up somewhere else on a contract similar to what Blount got from Pittsburgh, while the Pats would choose to replace him with either a draft pick or a cheap FA/trade pickup (again, think Blount last year). But considering how bad the FA market is even for healthy RBs, this injury might allow us to keep him for really cheap and PUP him next year.

Kinda messed up to think about it that way, and it really sucks for Ridley, but that injury makes it even more the case that he'll be more valuable to us than to anyone else, since he's probably missing TC next season. Whoever signs him would have to be confident that they can plug him right in when he's healthy without much of an offseason to speak of.

Yes... and I never said he was going to play for the patriots. He would have been nice to have as LB depth.

Regarding Ridley, parallel situatio to the unfortunate timing of Wes Welker's ACL injury.

Assume it will significantly curtail his earning potential. As noted, he will be more valuable to a team employing the same offense.

So, are we going "no news is good news" with Mayo? I'm trying to be optimistic here...leaks of Brady tearing his ACL were out by Sunday night. Its already Monday afternoon and no one has said anything about Mayo. Hopeful?

If there's any good a player can take from a season ending injury is that it sucks anyway and anytime, but since it's still week 6, they have all this season and off season to recover. A ACL or Achilles injury in the last quarter of the season complicates things in the current season and the very next.

blackglass3 said:

So, are we going "no news is good news" with Mayo? I'm trying to be optimistic here...leaks of Brady tearing his ACL were out by Sunday night. Its already Monday afternoon and no one has said anything about Mayo. Hopeful?

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I dunno if I'd call it good news--my guess would be that they're waiting for the swelling to go down to do a final check before they make anything official--but it's still better than bad news I suppose. Holding out some faint hope still that this might be more of a 6-8 week type injury rather than a season-ender.

Side note: if that does turn out to be the case, this is why I don't like using the in-season IR spot on someone like Siliga. Siliga is a nice player, but you can roughly approximate his production by signing someone who's freely available. That's how he got here just last year. Using that spot on him doesn't make sense to me in the same way that using it on Shiancoe didn't make sense to me two years ago.

IMO, it's pretty reasonable to operate on the assumption that someone who's really, really important to the team--someone like Mayo, or maybe an Edelman or a McCourty or even Gronk or Vollmer--is going to go down with a 6+ week injury at some point during the season.

Siliga is a good enough player that we wouldn't have wanted to IR him for the season so we'd have IR-DtR one and kept the other on the roster. So it would have been no advantage to not using the DtR on Siliga.

But it's irrelevant you can tell from the player quotes Mayo is going to be out for the year.