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Davis Vows to Return this year

ChuckWag78

By ChuckWag78,
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A friend of mine's father works with an ex-panther (can't remember who at the time) who is good friends with davis. he said that davis was extremely worried about his future if he wasn't able to play this year. with the impending lockout and his one year contract, there's a chance he could have no income in 2011. He is just trying to get back so he can make money and support his family. he doesn't really have a choice.

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Maybe but I read everyone of the comments so far and the general consensus is that most of the people here are just concerned for his health. Nothing wrong with that if you ask me.

Sure, but if the highly trained medical staff clears the man to play, then he's ready to play. A bunch of people who have no idea what they're talking about saying he should "take it easy" is completely irrelavent. And the fact that he tore his ACL again has very little to do with his recovery time. It was a freak accident. You can't prepare for freak accidents. You just do the surgery, you rehab the joint, you strengthen the muscles and then when you're ready, you play. If he's ready this season, then he should play. It's not up to anyone here to decide how long a professional athlete should take to recover from an ACL tear.

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Sure, but if the highly trained medical staff clears the man to play, then he's ready to play. A bunch of people who have no idea what they're talking about saying he should "take it easy" is completely irrelavent. And the fact that he tore his ACL again has very little to do with his recovery time. It was a freak accident. You can't prepare for freak accidents. You just do the surgery, you rehab the joint, you strengthen the muscles and then when you're ready, you play. If he's ready this season, then he should play. It's not up to anyone here to decide how long a professional athlete should take to recover from an ACL tear.

Yes but you would think having the same injury twice in the same area could cause some more damage and could require more time to heal. I think that's where most were coming from.

And yes if the doctors clear him I'm sure he will most likely play. Although I always wondered if team doctors aren't even slightly biased in speeding up a player's return to the field.

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Yes but you would think having the same injury twice in the same area could cause some more damage and could require more time to heal. I think that's where most were coming from.

And yes if the doctors clear him I'm sure he will most likely play. Although I always wondered if team doctors aren't even slightly biased in speeding up a player's return to the field.

Tommy Jones could help!! I had to hit it 1st!! :svengo:

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FWIW- I did have the surgery and did have the patellar tendon replacement procedure. The worse part of rehab was building up the patellar tendon given they take about 30% of it to form the new ACL plus it takes some time for the bone graft to completely heal.

It is interesting they didn't use a cadaver patellar tendon or ACL which is pretty common these days. Most of the time the rehab is reduced somewhat given that you don't have any reduction in muscle size like you do when they use your own.

But even with me I was up and walking in a week and running in 6 months. And that was rehabbing it a couple of hours of week given I was working full time not rehabbing full time.

With the brace which restricts sidewards motion and strict rehab, he could be back in 6 months. But he will need the brace until next season and there is always a chance of further injury.

Like others have said, he is going to push it because otherwise he doesn't play here next year and won't be signed to a big contract. If it were me I might take a 1 year deal and plan to get bigger money after 2011 when all of this is settled and my knee was 100%.

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Yes but you would think having the same injury twice in the same area could cause some more damage and could require more time to heal. I think that's where most were coming from.

And yes if the doctors clear him I'm sure he will most likely play. Although I always wondered if team doctors aren't even slightly biased in speeding up a player's return to the field.

All the rehab he did the first time probably helped reduce the damage and rehab the second time. The bones take a set amount of time to heal but the rehab is largely building up the muscles around the knee which he already did the first time through rehab.

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bottom line, what TD wants may not matter.

Fox and hurney have made the decision to move Beason to the WLB from the beginning of camp in order to get Conner some reps in the middle.

Why would they re-arrange the entire LB corps 3/4 of the way through the season (which realistically, those last 4 games wont mean anything b/c we will be near the bottom of the league). There is no advantage to the team to risk all that change, TD's long term health for a few meaningless games.

the only way i see this even being considered by the coaching staff is if Conner or Beason either gets injured / or starts being a huge liability.

TD wants to prove he can still play and deserves that big contract he was about to sign before he got hurt, so of course he says he is going to play. but fox and co. will have a different opinion.

If they had decided to leave Beason in the MLB spot, then i can see the team waiting with open arms for TD's return. but they have too much invested in moving guys around since camp to make the change for 4 games.

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Sure, but if the highly trained medical staff clears the man to play, then he's ready to play. A bunch of people who have no idea what they're talking about saying he should "take it easy" is completely irrelavent. And the fact that he tore his ACL again has very little to do with his recovery time. It was a freak accident. You can't prepare for freak accidents. You just do the surgery, you rehab the joint, you strengthen the muscles and then when you're ready, you play. If he's ready this season, then he should play. It's not up to anyone here to decide how long a professional athlete should take to recover from an ACL tear.

Are you talking about those same people who cleared him to "play" only to have him tear it again, because he was backpedaling? Seriously, there is a reason why people with torn ACL's arent supposed to jump back into action right away.

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