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  • #16
    Gotta play withi the rules; the decision was fine. Even if he could be back by the playoffs there is no guarantee he would be at the level he was coming out of TC. Maybe he would be but maybe he wouldn't----that is why they kept 10 DL.
    Wait until next year is a terrible philosophy
    Hope is not a strategy
    RIP

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    • #17
      Looks like this was more RosensharkWhur(TM) just spouting crap.......
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      Birds: Kearse's injury is still 'pretty significant

      'By LES BOWEN
      [email protected]

      The bottom line remains the same: Jevon Kearse could not have played again this season, though the damage to his left knee was not as bad as originally feared, and the Eagles defensive end should be OK by minicamp time next spring.

      But some of the details and interpretations were a little different when the Eagles made athletic trainer Rick Burkholder available yesterday to talk about the optimistic assessment offered Thursday by Kearse's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, following Kearse's arthroscopic surgery, performed by Dr. John Uribe.

      "We thought that he had three ligaments damaged. He really only had two, once they got in there," Burkholder said. "When [Uribe] got in there and looked around, he had to fix his lateral meniscus, which is the main thing he had to fix. Then he looked at his medial collateral ligament, which was totally torn, but was starting to heal back to the bone, so he left that alone. And he looked at his posterior cruciate ligament, which was torn partially from the bone. He felt that because he was going to allow the MCL to heal up, the PCL would heal up as well. He didn't want to do a big reconstruction, open him up, if he was going to heal down fine.

      "His lateral collateral ligament, which we thought was involved, from the MRI, was actually just bruised probably, from the hit. It wasn't torn at all. He also subluxated his kneecap slightly... had some wear and tear on the backside of his kneecap, which he had cleaned out a little bit by Dr. Uribe. He does have what is called a tibial plateau fracture, which is a fracture not through the whole bone but across the bone. You've got to protect him on that for about 3 months, alone... They noticed that one of his calves, the calf attaches up behind the knee, was torn.

      "He has a pretty significant injury. However, he didn't need a big, reconstructive surgery like we feared... We don't feel that this injury's career-threatening, by any means. We think he's going to make a full recovery. The recovery will probably take somewhere between 4 and 6 months."

      Rosenhaus projected a 12-to-16-week recovery period, which is moot, given that Kearse is on injured reserve, but under Rosenhaus' scenario, you could have second-guessed the Eagles for putting their highest-profile defensive end on IR, projecting that he might be healthy enough to play by the playoffs. Even if that timetable held true, though, it's hard for a player to jump into the playoffs after not having played for months. Generally, with serious injuries, it's safer to go through the more gradual process of minicamps and training camp before playing games again.


      Burkholder said that while Uribe's decision to repair meniscus cartilage instead of removing it was a good one for Kearse's long-term outcome, the damaged meniscus would have to be monitored to make sure it heals. It still could end up being taken out, he said. And, of course, there is always some risk that the ligament tears won't heal completely on their own, as Uribe projects.

      "That's one of the reasons we're saying, 'Listen, we're going to take our time getting this right, we're not going to rush him back, we're going to let him heal up, and then go after the rehab hard,' " Burkholder said.

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