Scott Chandler Out For The Season, Maybe More

I hope he has a quick recovery.

Knee surgery for ex-Patriots TE Chandler will 'probably keep me from playing again'

Well, it seems that may have been the reason he fell off a cliff last year. Certainly didn't seem the same player we watched at Buffalo.

Kill this thread...seems it is done!

I was disappointed as hell with what we got from him, but I think the "animosity" that people are talking about here is a little overstated. His performance was disappointing--we weren't sending him hate letters or anything.

Thanks for giving us everything you had last year Scott. After reading your post, it sounds like you know what is important in life. I hope your recovery goes well.

aluminum seats said:

I was disappointed as hell with what we got from him, but I think the "animosity" that people are talking about here is a little overstated. His performance was disappointing--we weren't sending him hate letters or anything.

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No, but there's ways of showing disappointment without being a ****. Some here can't do it and they don't care.

What animosity? We're not allowed to make jokes about his stone hands because he has a bum knee? Or because he's a good guy we should ignore that he contributed practically nothing to the team on the field? I wish him well, although it appears his career is over. But internet fora are for making jokes and otherwise semi-rude statements, don't be too precious.

He did contribute on the field.

The Gr8est said:

While we all understand why BB is so tight-lipped about injuries, it is unfortunate that we didn't know about this during the season.

He would have gotten less animosity directed his way by some fans.

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There were constant rumors about problems with his knee.

Deus Irae said:

Neither Chandler nor LaFell suffered major injury to their hands, as best I can tell.

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No, though I can imagine playing through knee pain that ultimately requires surgery may affect ones concentration. At least in Chandlers case.

Animosity? Seriously? Some of you are so sensitive.

Chandler was an average player, highly overrated by fans here IMO. Saying that doesn't mean there is animosity towards the guy personally.

Football careers end all the time, he had a decent run, made some decent money and hopefully leaves with his long term health intact. No need to nominate him for Sainthood.

PatsDeb said:

What a good guy. I feel bad now that I thought he was a bum for some of last season. I need to remember that usually when an NFL player's performance falls off, it's because he's dealing with some kind of injury and trying to play through it. Good luck to Scott for a speedy recovery.

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Remember that in the next Marcus Cannon thread...

If he made $13 million during his NFL career, I would certainly hope that he's set for the rest of his life.

IMO, he's not that bad off. He's 30 years old, he left the game with his brain intact (hopefully), he has a loving wife and healthy kids, and he never has to work another day in his life.

I'd take it

vuudu said:

I know the exact moment this happened and it was in the Denver game. He walked off but that is when he fell off the wagon altogether.

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If that's true, it would make Denver responsible for injuring the knees of three patriots in that game: Hightower, Gronk and Chandler. The Pats were never the same after that. Damn.

Everyone of us on this Board has chosen to be a fan of a brutal sport. Everyone of the players that we praise or criticize has chosen to play a brutal sport for money...sometimes a lot of money.

So, there's nothing wrong with being critical of how a player's performance on the field presents itself. We have nothing else on which to go than what we see.

If it turns out there were what some would consider exacerbating circumstances, then each one of us has to make up his/her own mind on how to weigh them.

In the case of Chandler, I'd probably cut him some slack since constant pain could interfere with how his "hands' function, but I'm not about to disagree with someone who sees that differently.

MitchKumstein said:

If he made $13 million during his NFL career, I would certainly hope that he's set for the rest of his life.

IMO, he's not that bad off. He's 30 years old, he left the game with his brain intact (hopefully), he has a loving wife and healthy kids, and he never has to work another day in his life.

I'd take it

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Yep. You figure after taxes he has ~$7m that he is responsible for managing and being smart with. Figure he already blown through $3m so he has $4m left. If invested properly that should easily cover private schools, college itself, weddings and the other hundreds and thousands of dollars us parents shell out for multiple children over their life. He should also be able to afford a nice house, maybe even buy a reasonable vacation home, do a little investing and have a pretty damn good retirement complete with health care and elderly care taken care of for he and his wife.

With that said, he should find a job that pays him a decent salary for the next 20 or so years.

robertweathers said:

Yep. You figure after taxes he has ~$7m that he is responsible for managing and being smart with. Figure he already blown through $3m so he has $4m left. If invested properly that should easily cover private schools, college itself, weddings and the other hundreds and thousands of dollars us parents shell out for multiple children over their life. He should also be able to afford a nice house, maybe even buy a reasonable vacation home, do a little investing and have a pretty damn good retirement complete with health care and elderly care taken care of for he and his wife.

With that said, he should find a job that pays him a decent salary for the next 20 or so years.

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Don't forget $2 to $2.5 million off the top to agents and accountants and other professionals. Plus an unusually high cost structure, relocation and travel bills and personal trainers and all that contribute to burning through the cash, it's not all bling and flash. So yeah, he probably has three to five mil banked, and a lifetime of uninsulated medical expenses in front of him. He'll need to become a working stiff like the rest of us, maybe some better options but not the never work again gravy train.