Gronk: arm injury

[aluminum seats]

Eh, that kind of lead, short week, I'd have sat him down.

But he'll be back for the playoffs, so that's good.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Based on what wiggy and fox were saying last night, if they put a plate in there he would potentially miss only one game.....depends on the break

Wiggie, now there's a guy who probably stayed at a Holiday Inn Express at least once upon a time...

It takes bone about ten days to knit, to itself or around a fixture. After that it becomes a matter of how long it takes for it to fully heal. Depending on a boatload of variables that could be as soon as <4 weeks, but the player has already told us it's expected to be about that long if not longer. Depending on the position you're being asked to play, playing in a hard cast after a couple of weeks is possible. To be remotely the complete TE Gronk is expected to be is a lot different as a couple of catches he made yesterday tend to underscore.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Eh, that kind of lead, short week, I'd have sat him down.

But he'll be back for the playoffs, so that's good.

They actually did sit him down for the drive. He only came back in for the PAT. It was a freak injury.

 

[Mike the Brit]

out of pure ignorance, what happens to screws/plates inserted to help the bone heal faster? do they stay in forever or do they get taken out later?

Depends. A surgeon told me I could have an operation that would last for two hours and spend six months healing or live with the plate. My choice ...

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

out of pure ignorance, what happens to screws/plates inserted to help the bone heal faster? do they stay in forever or do they get taken out later?

a lifetime of fun with airport scanners ensues

 

[aluminum seats]

They actually did sit him down for the drive. He only came back in for the PAT. It was a freak injury.

I meant sit him down as in, "have a seat, big guy, you're done for the day."

 

[PATSNUTme]

I get all my medical advise from the internet. But I'm confused, some sites say that he will be out 4-6 weeks, others say that using leaches and dung should have it healed in about a week.

Others say that Mr. Migagi clapping his hands a touching the arm should get him back next week.

 

[juxtapoz15]

So can Gronk go on the new IR designation that allows players to return? I know we used it earlier on Shiancoe. Is it only one at a time, or only one time per season?

 

[ForThoseAboutToRock]

For those of us old enough to remember,there wasn't a tougher S.O.B. in NFL history than former Rams LB Jack Youngblood.

In the 1979 playoffs,Youngblood broke his fibula bone during the game and RETURNED the same game a quarter later by putting a plastic cast on it,he then went on to play the next game and the Super Bowl with the broken calf bone and without anything but that flimsy cast.

That my friends,was a MAN amongst men....these days you will never see that happen again.

Except when a guy plays the whole season with a torn ACL?...

 

[ForThoseAboutToRock]

So can Gronk go on the new IR designation that allows players to return? I know we used it earlier on Shiancoe. Is it only one at a time, or only one time per season?

No, the IR designation has been consumed through it's use on Shiancoe.

 

[resdubwhite]

a lifetime of fun with airport scanners ensues

I've got some in my hand. Haven't set off an alarm in 10 years. I hope they didn't dissolve.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Does anyone remember the time when Neil O' Donnell injured himself in the parking lot on the way in to the game (was it a game or practice?)

Or the time Welker tore his ACL running a pass route, without contact?





(BTW and not to hijack the thread to another topic, but injuries like these are what make me completely sympathetic to players who hold out or negotiate to get the best possible contract when they are healthy; booing #4 yesterday was classless...I count two Lombardis that we might not have without his leg.)

 

[RobertWeathers]

This is a shame but for the sake of trying to be optimistic, this will give him some time to get the back some rest.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

I get all my medical advise from the internet. But I'm confused, some sites say that he will be out 4-6 weeks, others say that using leaches and dung should have it healed in about a week.

Others say that Mr. Migagi clapping his hands a touching the arm should get him back next week.

Darn. Now you've exposed the sources of all the medical "expertise" that's being displayed here this morning.

 

[ForThoseAboutToRock]

I get all my medical advise from the internet. But I'm confused, some sites say that he will be out 4-6 weeks, others say that using leaches and dung should have it healed in about a week.

Go with what you believe. Make your belief firmly held - in doing so, no one can ever tell you you're wrong. You're entitled to your beliefs. This is the way of the internets.

 

[Bella*chick]

Or the time Welker tore his ACL running a pass route, without contact?





(BTW and not to hijack the thread to another topic, but injuries like these are what make me completely sympathetic to players who hold out or negotiate to get the best possible contract when they are healthy; booing #4 yesterday was classless...I count two Lombardis that we might not have without his leg.)

Yeah, hard to forget that one. I just thought the parking lot one was the most bizarre and I believe he was a Jet at the time.

 

[OMGWTFJUDD]

Well, at least he won't lose much conditioning and with an arm guard fitted he'd be almost 100%.

Better an arm than a knee.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

I meant sit him down as in, "have a seat, big guy, you're done for the day."

A lot of mediots will likely agree with you today. Not so much coaches.

2. Of New England, Gronk and the Belichick substitution rules. Gronkowski suffered his broken forearm Sunday in the 59-24 win over the Colts -- and the internet was abuzz Sunday night with news that the injury apparently occurred on the 59th point of the game, the extra point after the final garbage touchdown of the game. Why keep a valuable player in the game at that stage, some asked; others wondered why the increasingly valuable Gronkowski should be risking injury on any special teams unit.

The words "Belichick'' and "karma'' kept coming back from the ether, and I cannot argue. I've always thought the capriciousness of Belichick's early- and mid-fourth-quarter lineups in Patriot routs were his only weak points as a coach. It's bizarre to me that with a 28-point lead and 7:37 left in the fourth quarter Tom Brady was in the game -- and throwing twice -- to stretch the lead to 35. With a 31-point lead midway through the fourth quarter against the Rams in Week 8, backup Ryan Mallett entered the game. Good for him, and good for the Patriots long-term, to get the raw backup some playing time. So you'd think, then, that I'd view Gronkowski's injury in that same critical light. I don't.

Coaches have 45 active players each game. They don't have a "second team'' of the point-after-try unit. The PAT is one of the most risk-free plays in football. Rodney Harrison, the former Patriots safety now in the NBC studio with me on Sunday nights, didn't get taken off the kickoff team in routs. And Tony Dungy, who coached the Colts and Bucs, told me: "Jeff Saturday was my right guard on the PAT team, and I'd never think of taking him off. All my years in football, I never heard anyone, never heard Chuck Noll saying, 'Well, we better get Jack Ham off the PAT team.' It's not something I'd question."

Rob Gronkowski, Andrew Luck, Andre Johnson, more NFL Week 11 thoughts - Peter King - SI.com

As to Peter's concerns about starters playing in blowouts I'd just remind him that you cannot replace everybody and Belichick builds his team on the premise that there are no stars, just football players. And on a team that has had a maddening tendancy to sputter on one side of the ball or the other if not both late in games, insuring they can all retain focus and play 60 minutes over rides risk of injury. If Bill started sitting regulars to plan for games we have yet to secure a right to play in and this team started folding like a house of cards lucky to eek out wins...the same fans and mediots would be tearing him a new one just for a different reason. And I could just hear the shrieks now were Mallett to be inserted into a 3 score game only to make poor throw/decision that resulted in a key WR or TE getting concussed or worse...

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

Or the time Welker tore his ACL running a pass route, without contact?

and Vinnie Testaverde the year 1999? the Jets were on a tear with a decent team blows out his achillies untouched. You-know-what happens.

 

[NinjaZX6R]

Gronk knifed inside to block guess who?

SERGIO FREAKING BROWN