Geez Bradford is a china doll.

rambill from off the net: It wasn’t that the knee was hit….the guy hit him up high and it caused an awkward downward pressure on his leg…it may have been hyperextended slightly.

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

Bummer is that’s the way it was in Carolina too.

No I think this was different…he was clearly bad hurt in Carolina, I didn’t get that sense this time

Anyway, this from off the net, fwiw

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Str8 Rammin

im an athletic therapist and if that were a total ligament rupture, especially an acl it would have had to happen from a force coming from the posterior of the knee to the anterior. But the force of impact came from the front to the back. It may be just a hyperextension but i wouldn’t rule out a possible mcl strain and or partial meniscus tear

morris1

According to NFL Channel Sam has had an initial MRI and it did not show anything – will have another tomorrow. But previous player on NFL Channel stated that Bradford may have simply torn scare tissue which often occurs after major surgery. Tearing scare tissue can be quite painful, but also temporary.

gulp.

Nick Wagoner @nwagoner

Fisher on Bradford: “I can’t speculate but it appeared just to be a hyperextension of the same knee. He’s walking around fine.”

Jim Thomas (@jthom1)

FIsher on Bradford’s knee injury: “I’m very optimistic for his quick return.”

Glad to hear about the scar tissue. I have some experience with adhesions resulting from hyperextension and it is very scary
at first but goes away fairly quickly. Bradford’s going to need better pass protection than last night and hopefully better durability out of Saffold and Long(Jake)

sorry, mack. i gotta go with grits on this. bradford is not proving to be a durable guy. maybe his ligaments are just not that durable. i’m beginning to think it’s just a matter of when not if his next big injury comes.

hope i’m wrong.

i think the best they can do is keep drafting qbs. well. i guess that’d be true regardless.

at this point what can you do anyway? bradford is clearly a talented quarterback. he was throwing some lasers out there. and the rams don’t have a clear cut plan for another starting qb at this point. a heavy run based offense is necessary i think. to limit the exposure to sam for more hits.

trumaine johnson injury is more scary at this point. does joyner become the other starting cb if johnson is out?

InvaderRam wrote:

sorry, mack. i gotta go with grits on this. bradford is not proving to be a durable guy. maybe his ligaments are just not that durable. i’m beginning to think it’s just a matter of when not if his next big injury comes.

hope i’m wrong.

Mack’s point, though, is not the substance of what got said but the way it was said.

Mack, the way I read him, was agreeing that some guys do get hurt more: Even if the future becomes Robot football, some robots will be more reliable than others.

So he agreed about the durability issue. From reading Mack I gather it’s an open question about Bradford’s durability. On saying he’s injury prone? Or not durable? That could be true of Bradford or not, though certainly one way to take yesterday is that it’s starting to add up with him. Mack only had some qualms about HOW it was said.

I just keep adding different views to this discussion.

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Mark Harper

For those who didn’t listen to Savard and Farr last night . Towards the end of the game they were speaking with someone and said that very common post acl to take a minimal hit or push off oddly and break up scar tissue. He described that feeling as extremely painful but after a day or so can be beneficial to the knee long term. He said that the slight hyper extension of Sam’s knee looked at first glance that it may be a scar tissue issue . Sorry I missed who thy were speaking to ( may have been sideline reporter Will Witherspoon)

Mackeyser wrote:

I think the term, “china doll” is overtly provocative. Not trying to say how you should post or anything, but at best it’s an inarticulate way of speaking to Bradford’s injury concerns and at worst, it’s trying to start a fight.

I think as fans it’s all too easy to forget and see them solely as just pixels on the screen to us and glowing phosphors before that…unless we caught a game live, but even still, we weren’t on the field.

Most of have never and will never know what even ONE hit from an NFL defensive lineman feels like let alone the repetitive pounding one takes as an NFL QB.

Between the intricacies of joint mechanics, the fact that the joint in question was just repaired and may not have been fully stabilized and he took a knee to knee hit AND had a 300+ Defensive Tackle trying to drag him down putting his full weight solely on that knee… well, frankly we’re lucky the knee held up as well as it did.

Even if the future becomes Robot football, some robots will be more reliable than others. And whether it’s Chaos Theory, bad karma, a jinx, the baby Jesus or something else at work, I think it’s pretty safe to say that it’s NOT that Sam Bradford is brittle and breaks easily.

OK….how about injury prone?

InvaderRam wrote:

well i’m not sure what this means then. or is it that using the words “brittle” and “breaks easily” is inflammatory?

Mack said this: I think the term, “china doll” is overtly provocative.

I took that as meaning it’s not the issue, it’s how it’s put.

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