HanburgerHelper wrote:sonofyens wrote:What makes you think the club didnt know about it? Why does everyone assume the worst?
Why does everyone look at a knee condition as a minor thing? You need healthy knees to play football at a high level, especially in the pros. It's not just a simple procedure and that's it, it's fixed. It must be rested to recuperate it and then strengthened. If it isn't, it could lead to a more serious knee injury. Psychologically, having a knee one must protect affects your play too. Also, this is a guy who weighs over 300 pounds.
Losing Dockery last year to free agency and now Thomas gets scoped, why shouldn't I be concerned? Guard is not an insignificant position. I don't think Thomas is known for his conditioning and has a penchant for eating on a grand scale. Watch how the coaches react and I'm sure you'll see a great deal of concern for the position in the Redskins camp. At least they know that they can't afford to have a blase attitude about it.
As far as the trainers, etc, knowing about it? That's a big leap you're making. Not likely. You're tipped off to these things by the player, then you do an MRI. They don't perform those diagnostics unless they are deemed necessary and the magnetism or radiation (x-rays) aren't something you want to dole out routinely. I had physicals and none of them included MRIs or X-rays.
Let me repeat myself.
They signed him to an extension.
They HAD to have given him a physical.
If you think otherwise, and IF YOU ArE RIGHT, then our front office is being run by a bunch of idiots.
You are right that knee injries CAN be bad, but many of today's procedures are done to clean things up, to make players, who arent even in any pain but whose range of motion might be limited, play at a higher level without nay restrictions.
Again, if it were serious, we'd know about it, kind of like the whole Marcus Washington degenerative hip condition problem...
When i think of bad knees I think of Mark Schlereth, who had about 19 procedures, most of which were NOT arthroscopic, and he played in how many pro bowls?
