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Vikings were 9.5 wins over/under per Sportsbook, now down to 8. I think we win 9.
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Vikings were 9.5 wins over/under per Sportsbook, now down to 8. I think we win 9.
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I know but the knee is the weakest part of the body and the way these guys stop on a dime and cut it makes you wonder how the knee stands it .
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This makes me think his knee dislocated medialy, not laterally like all mine were where the patella just jumped out and over. I wonder if he fell on it after dislocating it because thinking back on mine, I never had any extra damage except the strain on everything inside when it came out.
I'm trying to think of a non-contact scenario where it comes out like that. He had to have been making a cut.
I'm trying to think of a non-contact scenario where it comes out like that. He had to have been making a cut.
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Yeah - can't muster up any sorrow for the Viqueens. I suppose I can understand some of the younger fans not having the same thoughts toward that franchise but I just can't get my give a damn to work toward them.
I hold no ill will toward Teddy. That being said, I always thought he was over rated and to me he seems too delicate for the game. I said it last year when he went down in a couple games after pretty much nothing hits - this kid isn't going to last in this league. I don't like hearing about injuries to these kids but I'm not surprised at all either.
I hope he gets better but if he does, I hope it is with a team I can stomach.
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Ouch. Sorry to hear that happened with you Athos. Hope all is well now.
For Teddy, I hope all goes well. Prayers for strength and healing.
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Yeah it was reported that he had tibiofemoral dislocation AND ruptured ACL
This was not your common knee blowout
View: https://twitter.com/injuryexpert/status/770984992084287488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Bleh, wish i hadn't googled tibiofemoral dislocation to see what exactly it meant. Teddy is very lucky that his medical staff was on the ball.
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Gross. Yea, whoever reported it as a knee dislocation didn't know his medical lingo. The common knee dislocation is a patellar dislocation. Now it makes sense and how his ACL ruptured. A patellar dislocation wouldn't really, at least normally from my understanding, result in inner knee ligament damage.
This is far worse. Tibia dislocation from the femur. That's fucked up. I'm still struggling to figure out HOW you get that kind of dislocation non-contact unless there was/is something structurally wrong with the knee in the first place. Unless his knee locked out completely while cutting and he had all the force on that leg.
Good thing he had immediate onsite care. Not the norm. I'd hate to see anyone outside of a multi-million dollar setting suffer that kind of injury.
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http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/08/31/teddy-bridgewater-injury-nfl-roster-cuts-dak-prescott
I don’t need to tell you that Tuesday presented an absolute worst-case scenario for any NFL team. And the Vikings don’t need to hear it either. They know.
But no one’s cancelling the season because Teddy Bridgewater got hurt, so the obvious question in Minnesota becomes, “What’s next?”
Les Snead had to answer that one two years ago in St. Louis, when Sam Bradford tore his ACL in the Rams’ third preseason game. As is the case in Minnesota now, the Rams GM was just days away from the final cutdown. Snead was, as the Vikings are today, looking at Shaun Hill as his starting quarterback. And Snead was operating with knowledge that his options were limited otherwise.
“A high percentage of your roster is set at that point, and you’re getting ready to play (the fourth preseason) game, and a few spots are on the line,” Snead said Wednesday. “And it adds energy to all that. Who’s the starting QB? Who’s the backup? Do we need to add another QB, or a practice-squad type, or someone with experience? All that energy goes into that.”
But we’re starting the news of the week, and how it relates to one of the most hectic weeks on any general manager’s calendar. And that’s why I turned to Snead and the Rams. Their situation in 2014, in timing and investment in the starter—Bradford and Bridgewater are first-rounders—and even the backup, is as identical to Minnesota’s as it could be.
Snead says he looks back at that 6-10 season fondly, calling it, “one of the more rewarding seasons I’ve ever been a part of. Guys came together and competed, and by the end they thought they could beat anyone. … The bottom line is they recognized that they’re not calling off the season, they’re still keeping score, and there will be no asterisk.”
It was that rewarding, of course, mostly because the most Herculean of football challenges was dropped on the doorstep right before the opener against, yes, the Vikings. (And as luck would have it, the Rams are also playing the Vikings tonight in a final preseason tuneup).
As Snead explains it, the first thing the Rams had to do was discuss how many quarterbacks they’d keep on cutdown day. They had Hill, Austin Davis and rookie Garrett Gilbert on the roster, and were fairly confident they could get Gilbert through waivers to the practice squad. The plan was to add a third quarterback to the 53-man roster.
And the team made a call at that point to veer away from acquiring a “duplicate” of Hill, preferring to find a 20-something with upside, over another 30-something who may be reliable but wasn’t going to grow into much more. They started by working the trade market. Snead declined to name (or confirm) names, but I was told they made an effort to deal for Kirk Cousins and discussed Jimmy Garoppolo seriously.
The price tag was too high, so it was on to the waiver wire to find a young triggerman with starting experience. There aren’t many of those, of course, and one such player they sunk time into studying was Case Keenum. Texans coach Bill O’Brien waived him in the days to follow, the Rams put in a claim, and got him.
Two years later, Keenum is likely to start Game 1 of the franchise’s rebirth in Los Angeles.
“The nice thing with Case, you could sit down and watch him start football games from the previous season—not preseason—and see what he did well, what he didn’t do well,” Snead said. “That experience he had, we could use it.”
So within a week of learning Bradford’s injury was season ending, the Rams decided to keep Hill and Davis, waived Gilbert, signed him to the practice squad, and claimed Keenum. Hill started eight games that year. Davis started eight games. Keenum stuck long-term.
Something similar could happen over the next few days in Minnesota, or maybe they pull the Garoppolo/Cousins-like deal that the Rams didn’t. Regardless, the challenge in front of Vikings coach Mike Zimmer and GM Rick Spielman is clear.
Of course, that kind of circumstance is rare. But every team has a serious dilemma or two its dealing with over the next few days.
I don’t need to tell you that Tuesday presented an absolute worst-case scenario for any NFL team. And the Vikings don’t need to hear it either. They know.
But no one’s cancelling the season because Teddy Bridgewater got hurt, so the obvious question in Minnesota becomes, “What’s next?”
Les Snead had to answer that one two years ago in St. Louis, when Sam Bradford tore his ACL in the Rams’ third preseason game. As is the case in Minnesota now, the Rams GM was just days away from the final cutdown. Snead was, as the Vikings are today, looking at Shaun Hill as his starting quarterback. And Snead was operating with knowledge that his options were limited otherwise.
“A high percentage of your roster is set at that point, and you’re getting ready to play (the fourth preseason) game, and a few spots are on the line,” Snead said Wednesday. “And it adds energy to all that. Who’s the starting QB? Who’s the backup? Do we need to add another QB, or a practice-squad type, or someone with experience? All that energy goes into that.”
But we’re starting the news of the week, and how it relates to one of the most hectic weeks on any general manager’s calendar. And that’s why I turned to Snead and the Rams. Their situation in 2014, in timing and investment in the starter—Bradford and Bridgewater are first-rounders—and even the backup, is as identical to Minnesota’s as it could be.
Snead says he looks back at that 6-10 season fondly, calling it, “one of the more rewarding seasons I’ve ever been a part of. Guys came together and competed, and by the end they thought they could beat anyone. … The bottom line is they recognized that they’re not calling off the season, they’re still keeping score, and there will be no asterisk.”
It was that rewarding, of course, mostly because the most Herculean of football challenges was dropped on the doorstep right before the opener against, yes, the Vikings. (And as luck would have it, the Rams are also playing the Vikings tonight in a final preseason tuneup).
As Snead explains it, the first thing the Rams had to do was discuss how many quarterbacks they’d keep on cutdown day. They had Hill, Austin Davis and rookie Garrett Gilbert on the roster, and were fairly confident they could get Gilbert through waivers to the practice squad. The plan was to add a third quarterback to the 53-man roster.
And the team made a call at that point to veer away from acquiring a “duplicate” of Hill, preferring to find a 20-something with upside, over another 30-something who may be reliable but wasn’t going to grow into much more. They started by working the trade market. Snead declined to name (or confirm) names, but I was told they made an effort to deal for Kirk Cousins and discussed Jimmy Garoppolo seriously.
The price tag was too high, so it was on to the waiver wire to find a young triggerman with starting experience. There aren’t many of those, of course, and one such player they sunk time into studying was Case Keenum. Texans coach Bill O’Brien waived him in the days to follow, the Rams put in a claim, and got him.
Two years later, Keenum is likely to start Game 1 of the franchise’s rebirth in Los Angeles.
“The nice thing with Case, you could sit down and watch him start football games from the previous season—not preseason—and see what he did well, what he didn’t do well,” Snead said. “That experience he had, we could use it.”
So within a week of learning Bradford’s injury was season ending, the Rams decided to keep Hill and Davis, waived Gilbert, signed him to the practice squad, and claimed Keenum. Hill started eight games that year. Davis started eight games. Keenum stuck long-term.
Something similar could happen over the next few days in Minnesota, or maybe they pull the Garoppolo/Cousins-like deal that the Rams didn’t. Regardless, the challenge in front of Vikings coach Mike Zimmer and GM Rick Spielman is clear.
Of course, that kind of circumstance is rare. But every team has a serious dilemma or two its dealing with over the next few days.
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Pretty sure they did a MRI,and basic sensory for nerves would be touch and movement...The staff had to know, the main concern would be his circulation...
My thoughts...a bunch of players just look to fragile to play in this league...rather, I don't feel they'll last too long...hits are too violent...and it appears he was satisfied with his physical stature, and didn't want to add any significant muscle...I saw some film of Teddy in HS, while bigger now, of course, he doesn't "look" like a pro athlete...
Main thing I wanted to note...we'll get to see if Zimmer is the coach HE thinks he is...Hill with Fish/Schotty...Hill with Zim/Norv.... Should be interesting...
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I actually feel bad for Romo himself but as you probably already know, I place the Viqueens and Cowgurlz at about the same level on my Give-a-damn-o-meter.
But after how light of a hit by one of our guys sent Teddy Bear out of the remainder of the game last year, I just don't think Teddy has the physical or mental make up (heart) to play this game at the NFL level. That makes me actually care less about him than Romo. And I could care less about Romo so I suppose that means I couldn't care less about Teddy. See now this just gave me an opportunity to counter all those grammar guys who want to say there is no such statement as "I couldn't care less". Cuz when you think about it, if I could care less what kind of a statement is that? How much less could I care? If I did care less would that mean I didn't care at all? No. I think that is summed up by saying I couldn't care less. Now all that said, it doesn't make "I could care less" an invalid statement either. Of course I could care less - right up to the point that I couldn't. But then why would I even mention them? The fact that I posted about them must mean I care a little. Does that make me a liar because I said I couldn't care less about Teddy? So now you're calling me a liar? That's kind of low Rynie. I expected more from you. It's pistols at noon.
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You aren't wrong. But that probably has more to do w/ many.... (notice I did not say all.....) of your Cowboy fanatics who have penciled in Dallas as the NFC's rep for the Super Bowl every year (I'm from Okla.... I really hear it from so many who can barely admit a football has points on the end.........) . W/o regards to how their off-season went. I truly believe Romo will go down as one of the great "might have been" players. And unfortunately, he has earned the "brittle" label. But we Rams fans understand that, as we denied, so long Bradford being the same. Now if our rivalry w/ the Visqueens gets any worse.......we might have less regards for their QB. (Whoever that might be......) But Bridgewater seems like a good kid. And nobody wanted to see that happen to him. (No matter how big of a prick his coach is.......). You on the other hand.....are allright. (but once again.....take that for what it's worth......because I'm from Oklahoma........:rolllaugh
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Most feel bad for Romo as well. I know i do.
I think the difference is the extent of the injury. Romo may come back this year. He's also already had a fairly good career. In fact, I believe he should strongly consider retirement. He's had a rough time staying on the field.
Teddy is young and on the rise. His injury was also a very tough one.
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