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Another case study of why paying big money for a RB is stupid. The Rams have to pay Gurley a guaranteed $45 MM when his NFL career is highly likely over.
1 posted on 03/03/2019 5:50:37 AM PST by C19fan
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They may be covering for him. I have that but I’m old.


2 posted on 03/03/2019 5:52:51 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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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.


4 posted on 03/03/2019 5:59:59 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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“Todd Gurley has arthritis in knee”

I’ll alert the media.


7 posted on 03/03/2019 6:09:43 AM PST by equaviator
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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.


8 posted on 03/03/2019 6:14:56 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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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


10 posted on 03/03/2019 6:19:11 AM PST by atc23
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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.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=35&ved=2ahUKEwiP5NOrlObgAhUPT98KHWflAH8QFjAiegQICRAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Famp.cincinnati.com%2Famp%2F3001975002&usg=AOvVaw0QPg0RbqtTnMnl6_cyBfUQ


13 posted on 03/03/2019 6:22:43 AM PST by hardspunned
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Yes, arthritis is common in post op acl surgery. Drilling through bones will do that.


14 posted on 03/03/2019 7:31:01 AM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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Bone-on-bone hurts.


15 posted on 03/03/2019 7:35:00 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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Ouch. I have arthritis. It’s not fun.


16 posted on 03/03/2019 7:40:36 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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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.


17 posted on 03/03/2019 7:43:28 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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Where’s my national headlines for all my ailments and complaints?


20 posted on 03/03/2019 8:09:18 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.)
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I am 62 and on a serious weight training program, guided by a trainer who is 26, ex-army paratrooper and one tough hombre. Really puts me through a high intensity workout 3x/week and in some dimensions, I may have more strength and flexibility than at any time in my life. At the same time I do it carefully to avoid the kind of injuries that are common among weekend warrior types my age (can you say rotator cuff?)

I congratulate myself for never having engaged in the type of sports in my prior life that would limit me in the future. I know folks from my college days who played Big Ten football (very well, but not well enough to make it to the NFL) who can barely walk today.

I can't imagine what it would be like to be my age, or even considerably younger, and have the limitations you see with many NFL alumni. Was it really worth it?

21 posted on 03/03/2019 8:50:09 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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if true, this is really too bad: Todd Gurley was really fun to watch when he played for Georgia and the Rams ...


23 posted on 03/03/2019 9:28:21 AM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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Surprised they are not aggressively doing cold laser therapy, pemf therapy, and/or diathermy on the knee.


26 posted on 03/03/2019 11:02:58 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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