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A good read.
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2007/07/27/speed_recovery/?page=1
From the article:
-There were a couple of times in training camp last year that [tight end] Ben Watson ran past me," Harrison acknowledged. "I was there, but I couldn't get him. So I started questioning myself. I mean, I'm running around out there with this big knee brace on."
He has been around long enough to detect the concern in the faces of his teammates and his coaches. Nobody said anything, because, after all, he was coming off major knee surgery, but they saw what he felt: He wasn't the same.-
- I was close," Harrison said. "If we had won that game, I would have played in the Super Bowl. But I'll tell you what made me nervous. When we got up, 21-3, I started getting phone calls. About eight different people called me and said, 'Man, we're pumped. We're booking flights. We're getting tickets.'
"I hung up on every one of them. I said, 'It's not over.' Click. 'It's not over.' Click. Because I knew what the Indianapolis Colts were capable of. It's never over with them because they score so quickly.-
-But it was a struggle. Harrison kept waiting for his bounce to return, waiting to feel . . . like himself. He contemplated retirement, then pushed that notion away, then contemplated it again.
"I just didn't feel that good in January or February," he said-
-Rodney Harrison is looking forward now, not back. His success at minicamp has convinced him his career is not over.
Not yet.
"What happened at minicamp was very, very, very important," Harrison explained. "It was about mobility, movement. It was a huge step in my progress. They always told me the second year after an ACL is where you see everything take off."-
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2007/07/27/speed_recovery/?page=1
From the article:
-There were a couple of times in training camp last year that [tight end] Ben Watson ran past me," Harrison acknowledged. "I was there, but I couldn't get him. So I started questioning myself. I mean, I'm running around out there with this big knee brace on."
He has been around long enough to detect the concern in the faces of his teammates and his coaches. Nobody said anything, because, after all, he was coming off major knee surgery, but they saw what he felt: He wasn't the same.-
- I was close," Harrison said. "If we had won that game, I would have played in the Super Bowl. But I'll tell you what made me nervous. When we got up, 21-3, I started getting phone calls. About eight different people called me and said, 'Man, we're pumped. We're booking flights. We're getting tickets.'
"I hung up on every one of them. I said, 'It's not over.' Click. 'It's not over.' Click. Because I knew what the Indianapolis Colts were capable of. It's never over with them because they score so quickly.-
-But it was a struggle. Harrison kept waiting for his bounce to return, waiting to feel . . . like himself. He contemplated retirement, then pushed that notion away, then contemplated it again.
"I just didn't feel that good in January or February," he said-
-Rodney Harrison is looking forward now, not back. His success at minicamp has convinced him his career is not over.
Not yet.
"What happened at minicamp was very, very, very important," Harrison explained. "It was about mobility, movement. It was a huge step in my progress. They always told me the second year after an ACL is where you see everything take off."-
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