You guys routinely make fun of Felger but some of you are almost worse than him:
My question remains, does Gronk deserve to be the highest paid tight end in football even though he
is guaranteed to miss games every year? Do you include a bonus in his contract for games
played?
Yes, you pay him. End of story. Go troll somewhere else.
I don't really understand how professional athletes deal with hamstring injuries so often. I toured professionally for a few years in a performing arts company (I was an acrobat and a base for lifts, often holding 3 - 4 people in the air at a time; very similar to Cirque du Soliel), and I also ran a gym for a number of years. We spent a lot of time maintaining balanced muscle development so that we didn't overstrain joints or muscle groups. Proper strength and conditioning, combined with adequate warming up and cool down, stretching, etc, should nearly eliminate muscle strains.
I get that injuries happen, but in football, it seems like everyone has a hammy problem at one time or another. Kind of weird.
With all due respect to your "professional" career but you are as qualified to compare your experience to a professional football player as any part time runner is. We are talking about bodies that are on the verge of what ligaments and muscles can support when cutting quickly, accelerating and most importantly absorbing hits. Again, I am not trying to be personal here but the requirements for professional muscle mountains like him are different than anything else.
Hamstring injuries also are generally avoidable through proper conditioning and proper warming up. This is frustrating. Makes you wonder if Gronk ever will get through a full season without time on the shelf.
That being said, specifically in the case of Gronk this is the first time that he has tweaked a muscle either since he was drafted or in a long, long time. Either way I can't remember a case where he missed time due to something like that.
As usual I give my default question when those stupid threads show up.. give me one example of an avoidable injury Gronk had since he joined us. He had a high ankle sprain after another player fell right into him from behind in the 2011 AFCCG, he broke his arm in a freak accident during a PAT in 2012, rebroke the same arm in another accident (2012) when he fell on it in exactly the wrong angle and then had his knee destroyed by TJ Ward (2014). Finally, he missed one game after "divine intervention" in last year's Denver game. I don't see how anyone can get frustrated with the player for things that are out of his control.
He played a bit vs MIA on the last game of the year. He was medically cleared. The question is by whom? The popular theory is that Gill was an enabler and was rubber stamping players to play but his departure was more about MGH politics than NEP player health.
Yeah, I am sure that Gill risked his license and reputation just to help out his employees at the Patriots. Because that's what people that worked their ass through med school and then slowly climbed the career ladder in a major US hospital do.. risk it all so the Pats have a better shot at another SB.
Some of the "analysis" being thrown around just seems absurd to me. Gronk went six seasons without missing a game due to any kind of muscle injury, missing time only due to blunt force injuries to bones and ligaments, which hardly seem "generally avoidable." Suddenly after missing this one game, people are predicting his demise? The way I see it, the most likely outcome here is that he returns soon at nearly full health and then either stays healthy or suffers some kind of completely unrelated and unpredictable injury. I'd love to see some explanation about how this is some major signal that he won't be healthy in future seasons.
Bingo. Thank you..
What pisses me off about this topic is that we have a player who is still young, is already considered to be on the way to be the GOAT TE and breaks records every damn year. And, yet, people think he might be not worth a contract that reflects all of that because he has been through freak accidents in the past. Insane..
