Blount Signs with Pats (2yr deal)

robertweathers said:

NFL Rules..
If the team decides to place a player on injured reserve, it must be a major injury. The NFL definesmajor injury as an injury that renders the player unable to practice or play football for at least six weeks -- or 42 calendar days -- from the date of injury.

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Miguel said:

Where does the NFL define major injury? Is this someone's interpretation of how the NFL defines major injury?

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During each season a club will be permitted to return one player from the Reserve/Injured List to its 53-player Active/Inactive List. Such player must have suffered a major football-related injury (defined as an injury that renders the player physically unable to practice or play football for a period of at least six weeks [42 calendar days] from the date that the injury occurred) after reporting to training camp and must have been placed on Reserve/Injured after 4:00 p.m., New York time, on the Tuesday after the final roster reduction. A player who is eligible to return must be noted as "Designated for Return" at the time the player is placed on Reserve.

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mayoclinic said:

I haven't really looked at him this season, but last season he improved dramatically after BB made an adjustment to his running style and got him to lower his pad level:

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robertweathers said:

NFL Rules..



This rule seems long term to me and how the injury is diagnosed and recovery is managed makes this IMO squishy.

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fnordcircle said:

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040222/NEWS/302229942&cid=sitesearch

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robertweathers said:

If an investigation of the Patriots was done, it would have made major headlines.

What is my bias? That I believe that the Pats circumvented the rules?

Mike Florio is credible. I think your dismissal of his reporting calls out your own bias.

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AndyJohnson said:

Where is that from?
Oh, I just saw, you left out the part that this is a specific quote from the Designated to Return Rule.
Wow, you will reach far and don't care about being disingenuous to twist your argument, won't you?

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DaBruinz said:

Florio isn't a credilbe source.. My dismissal of his reporting is based on the years of his lies and spin when it comes to the Patriots.

And no. We wouldn't have heard of an investigation of the Patriots because, as I pointed out to you, each player who is IRed has an investigation done by the Commissioner's office. As is stated in the rules.

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robertweathers said:

I agree that Florio is a d-bag but why would he - and others say that Demps MRI was negative? Really?

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Bobsyouruncle said:

Didn't Florio report that Terry Bradshaw died. And I remember his McNair conspiracy theories because you apparently need some special forces training to pull off shooting someone point blank while they sleep.

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3. Your website famously killed Terry Bradshaw by running a false story about his alleged death a few years back.

One day I’m going to be right.

That’s true. But is that something that’s on your mind to this day when you’re contemplating whether to go with a story?

It’s a different thing when you’re talking about death. Now when there are reports that someone may have died, I’m very careful before I will use it. Because what happened with that was, there were TV stations in Shreveport, Louisiana reporting that Terry Bradshaw had passed away because there had been a car accident on the Terry Bradshaw Passway, and that got all twisted around. So I posted an item that there were rumors (that Bradshaw had died). It was five years ago, but we had the national voice, so people tied false reports about Terry Bradshaw to us, even though we were just repeating what somebody else was reporting. And what I learned was — at the time, I knew people at Fox, and all I had to do was call somebody…I learned a valuable lesson.

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DaBruinz said:

Let's get a few things straight.
Florio did not report that the MRI was negative.
Florio reported that the Herald reported that the MRI revealed Demps to be "fine".

Unfortunately, the Herald article on Demps is not accessible for some reason. But most others that reported on Demps were referring to that article.

Here is an Orlando Sentinel article that says that Demps MRI showed no serious damage. Not that it was negative. But no serious damage.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com...ff-demps-london-olympics-new-england-patriots

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robertweathers said:

Here is the language from the "Designated To Return" rule.

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robertweathers said:

Huh? Which part? I responded to Miguel's post from earlier which I think calls that out? I was just trying to show that there is a rule that talks about what the NFL considers a major injury. I wasn't going after the "designated to return rule". However, IR is IR. A major injury is considered by the NFL one that states that the player is unable to practice for 6 weeks. It's up to the team to decide if they can return- not the league..which adds squishiness.

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Miguel said:

Why does it matter to me when the player was placed on IR? Because of the injury reporting that goes on after each regular season practice. I have seen multiple Patriots waived/injured during the preseason over the years without ever first hearing that they were injured. I just happen to think that there is far more scrutiny of injury reporting during the regular season than during the preseason. This board has many posters with various lengths of fandom. The very fact that no one has yet to report a Kingsbury/Demps like situation occurring during the regular season is telling.

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robertweathers said:

Mike Florio is credible.

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AndyJohnson said:

That is simply untrue.
"IR is IR" is wrong when you quote a new rule that designates a player for return which is a special circumstance with more stringent requirements.
We have already identified the rule for IR, which is that the player be 'unable to play due to injury"
You are trying to refute that rule by stating a different one that is about something totally different.
You just listed that part in your response to me, and called it the NFL rule for IR. That is simply wrong.

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Oswlek said:

I think our primary disagreement is closer to a semantic one, but I couldn't possibly object to this statement more. Florio is the antithesis of "credibility." He gleefully spins Patriot non-stories into some accusation or another, even when in some cases you can find him disregarding the exact same issue with other teams.

I enjoy your posts, RW, but Florio is despicable. He isn't just inaccurate, he is a liar. You would do well to avoid him entirely.

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