Posted on 03/03/2019 5:50:37 AM PST by C19fan
Todd Gurley surely has something wrong with his left knee, no matter how aggressively the Rams will try to deny it. A new report has provided the first concrete diagnosis. Jeff Howe of TheAthletic.com reports that Gurley has arthritis in the knee. It’s the same knee that underwent an ACL repair in 2014. If the report is accurate, what will the Rams do about it? Coach Sean McVay discussed stem-cell treatment options for the knee this week at the Scouting Combine. If Gurley has arthritis that comes from a loss of cartilage, microfracture surgery presumably would be a possibility. However, the Rams have said that Gurley won’t have surgery.
They may be covering for him. I have that but I’m old.
It’s not just the Running back. Think Anthony Brown. Head case. He’s got his employer by the balls. Why let an angry black man have the upper hand like that? Injury is one thing but to stop playing?
I think, if we have come to the point of football players having stem cell surgery so their team can make more money, that the NFL is nearing the end of the line.
Then there’s the blown call against New Orleans.
Yeah, really. I had the same surgery done 6 months ago. It hurts, but I’m running, jumping (recently) and slowly getting used to, or overcoming the pain.
I’ve had arthritis since I was a teenager though.
No one makes a big deal. I guess they invested badly ? And this player is being traded like meat instead of employed life a human.
“Todd Gurley has arthritis in knee”
I’ll alert the media.
My understanding is NFL teams often hedge high dollar contracts by buying insurance against career ending injuries.
Teams still lose cap space but financial losses are probably not quite the full value of the contract.
It’s already in the media, that’s why we know about it
Hey, at least they got the news before the scouting combine and more than a month before the 2019 draft. I was hoping Rams were going to get LB help but I suppose a new RB is the focus now
Right.
Both the teams and individual players frequently buy insurance for contracts. I believe that’s the case for all pro sports.
Of course it is.
Hopefully he has some of that cash invested and I don’t mean in a larger posse. Remember Pac Man Jones? A few months out of the NFL and it takes him a day and a half to raise two grand to get out of jail. Typical punk NFL player.
Yes, arthritis is common in post op acl surgery. Drilling through bones will do that.
Bone-on-bone hurts.
Ouch. I have arthritis. It’s not fun.
For what it’s worth, i was diagnosed with arthritis in my knee when I was about 30. It must be very very minor because 20 years later and still no pain or loss of range of motion. But then again I’m not an elite athlete either.
Wonder what the premiums are like. With the size of these long term contracts in professions that have typically short career lives, the underwriters have to charge serious bucks or stop insuring $50 to $300 million contracts. Seems to me at any rate.
I have to think professional sports could price itself out of existence.
I also wonder how financially viable the NFL would be if the teams had to build their own stadiums (instead of you and me paying for them) and the tax breaks the teams get from governments (again, your money). Where else does the government dun the taxpayer to build operating facilities for private sector businesses? Why not pay for my warehousing facilities? I generate income for the local economy.
““Todd Gurley has arthritis in knee”
I’ll alert the media.”
A. I never heard of him.
2. Who doesn’t by a certain age?
Where’s my national headlines for all my ailments and complaints?
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