Bradford is done for the year

InvaderRam wrote:

yeah. i can’t think of another starting qb with the injury history this guy has had who’s made it.

alex smith?

he had a shoulder injury which they chose not to do surgery on. they finally decided to have surgery on it when they realized it wouldn’t heal on its own.

then he had to have a second shoulder surgery. mind you this was not necessarily contact related rather it was related to a wire they had left from the first surgery.

besides that he blew out his knee.

bradford has had three major ligament injuries. he had an ankle injury which still hadn’t healed going into the next season i believe.

and i’m just taking a guess at this. but my guess is one ligament tear is bad enough. the prognosis for a SECOND tear on the SAME ligament. my guess is the prognosis takes a huge dip.

No the ankle had healed. There was some stuff on the net about that but it was just wrong. The ankle had healed. You know whose ankle took longer? Roethlisberger.

Plunkett came back from several injuries.

I am not sure about the ACL because there are new techniques. ACLs aren’t what they used to be, medicine is better at handling them.

And Bradford re-injured the shoulder at OK, and came back, in the end, stronger than before (same with Brees, same operation).

I really don;t think anyone knows and I don’t think anyone’s guesses on this are better than anyone else’s.

InvaderRam wrote:

yeah. i can’t think of another starting qb with the injury history this guy has had who’s made it.

alex smith?

he had a shoulder injury which they chose not to do surgery on. they finally decided to have surgery on it when they realized it wouldn’t heal on its own.

then he had to have a second shoulder surgery. mind you this was not necessarily contact related rather it was related to a wire they had left from the first surgery.

besides that he blew out his knee.

bradford has had three major ligament injuries. he had an ankle injury which still hadn’t healed going into the next season i believe.

and i’m just taking a guess at this. but my guess is one ligament tear is bad enough. the prognosis for a SECOND tear on the SAME ligament. my guess is the prognosis takes a huge dip.

Just saw some doctor a little while ago on ESPN talking about it. He said should be a longer recovery time(a year) and arthritis could be a problem. He said Sam could come back but it’s going to be a long road. I know this doesn’t matter in terms of how the Rams approach this but it was just some general comments on this type of injury.

Just saw some doctor a little while ago on ESPN talking about it. He said should be a longer recovery time(a year) and arthritis could be a problem. He said Sam could come back but it’s going to be a long road. I know this doesn’t matter in terms of how the Rams approach this but it was just some general comments on this type of injury.

yeah. i’m no expert. but anytime you operate on the same site twice. the chances of recovering from the second operation plummet. just a guess. and i think that’s true with anything. rebuild something two times. it’s just not the same.

honestly, i’m disappointed but not crushed. rams will survive this. whatever qb goes in there is going into a great situation. but i feel bad for bradford. this is going to be one helluva climb back for him.

Hram wrote:

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but the more i think about it. the rams might just have to cut him. i don’t know. i don’t know what makes more financial sense at this point.

Yeah. I’m starting to think that.

They cannot risk a big cap number for next year on him. They can’t.

‘Course, I never follow the financials. I dunno how much cap savings it would mean. But if it’s substantive, then he has to be cut.

Ya know, no one is going to fight us for him if he is cut.