Putting Floyd aside for now since that's another discussion in and of itself I have a much greater concern that McPhee will never return to the level he played at throughout the first half of last season. Whatever is going on with his knee it's a much more serious deal than we've been led to believe. It obviously wasn't just a simple "scoping" to clean some stuff up.
We should be pulling for him to get through it and get 100% healed and back in football shape and maybe by the second half of this season he'll come on like Young and Houston did last year. If not then as I've posted before I'm looking at the possibility of this being another Tommie Harris type deal where he'll never be the player he was before this issue became as bad as it seems to be.
We don't know that because Fox is not sharing (and won't share) what the real issue is. IMO, no way to tell if it is something that will heal given time or he won't be back like before. Like you say, it is more serious than they let on, but that no longer shocks me. They did not waive him, so they still think he can contribute. At some point in time, the truth will come out and we can make a more educated guess. Of course just because our guesses are not educated has never stopped us from proclaiming what will happen. I don;t think we should let that stop us!
I suspect the same as you mp. It may have started out as something more simple but from my reading about the micro fracture procedure, the reasoning behind it, and the prognosis for success or failure it seems so far that McPhee's would fall on the side of the latter. The knee is not healing as expected. Not even close so far.
As lucky as we seem to have been with Young and Houston's injuries and their recoveries maybe our luck as run out with McPhee. I sure as hell hope not but as far as I'm concerned if there's any doubt or hesitation about his readiness to play I prefer they err on the side of safety and let him spend that six weeks on the PUP getting healed and back in football shape.
We aren't hurting as badly without him this year as we were a year ago and if it will help salvage his career they can keep him out all year as far as I'm concerned.
I also concur, since it's taking way long to heal and they said nothing about ACL tear. Than this has to be a microfracture to be taking this crazy long.
IIRC, didn't Clowney have a microfracture early in his NFL career? And then his 1st two seasons were pretty disappointing for a #1 overall pick who was supposed to be Julius Peppers 2.
Putting Floyd aside for now since that's another discussion in and of itself I have a much greater concern that McPhee will never return to the level he played at throughout the first half of last season. Whatever is going on with his knee it's a much more serious deal than we've been led to believe. It obviously wasn't just a simple "scoping" to clean some stuff up.
We should be pulling for him to get through it and get 100% healed and back in football shape and maybe by the second half of this season he'll come on like Young and Houston did last year. If not then as I've posted before I'm looking at the possibility of this being another Tommie Harris type deal where he'll never be the player he was before this issue became as bad as it seems to be.
We don't know that because Fox is not sharing (and won't share) what the real issue is. IMO, no way to tell if it is something that will heal given time or he won't be back like before. Like you say, it is more serious than they let on, but that no longer shocks me. They did not waive him, so they still think he can contribute. At some point in time, the truth will come out and we can make a more educated guess. Of course just because our guesses are not educated has never stopped us from proclaiming what will happen. I don;t think we should let that stop us!
Well let's not forget my Master of Euphimism MOR and soon to be a PhD MORON. I have the going for me when I get into this stuff.
His $7 mil salary is guaranteed for 2016 so they weren't gonna waive him no matter what. My guess at the moment is that after his 6 weeks on the PUP he'll be activated and we'll see what we've got then. Like you said there's really no way to tell where it stands until he plays again.
ok, so anyone see us making any other signings from players let go in the cuts? I'm talking about players that would move the needle. Not Sitton type players, but players that would actually help us. Or do you think we pretty much are looking at our 53?
ok, so anyone see us making any other signings from players let go in the cuts? I'm talking about players that would move the needle. Not Sitton type players, but players that would actually help us. Or do you think we pretty much are looking at our 53?
For the most part I'd say yes but you can't rule out certain vet additions after week one. Prior to that their entire salary may be guaranteed for the year. If they're signed after the first game it's not.