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Arian Foster achilles injury - Out for season

Very sad. Arian has been my favorite player on the team since that Pats game in 09. I really liked how he ran the ball. He was the complete package in a RB. Put the team on his back in the 2011 playoffs. Hope he gets well and is still able to play.
 
GuerillaBlack said:
Very sad. Arian has been my favorite player on the team since that Pats game in 09. I really liked how he ran the ball. He was the complete package in a RB. Put the team on his back in the 2011 playoffs. Hope he gets well and is still able to play.
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I'll always remember seeing him and Ray Lewis exchange jerseys after that loss in Baltimore. Mad respect.
 
This truly makes me seethe. Bill O'Brian is seriously out matched in the NFL. The guy has no clue how to use his talent and how to save what little talent he has. I cannot see Arian having a career after this. More talent wasted. More money wasted. And McNair is smiling like an idiot because no matter what kind of team is put out there, people are buying his merchandise. I'm so done this year.
 
It is time to move on from Arian, he missed 8 games in 2013, 3 in 2014, and looks like 13 this season. You can't pay a dude that kind of money when he is not on the field making plays. So from 2013 till the end of this season he will have missed 24 games, AKA a season and a half. He should just try to make it work with the wife that just divorced him, or maybe the chick he knocked up while he was married......maybe he needs to focus on something other than football.
 
Best back in franchise history. Thanks for everything Arian, UDFA to All Pro, great story. Will be awkward to see him in Dallas or San Diego, but I think his time here is done.
 
Foster gets paid!!!!!! He has missed a butt load of time already, his job is to tote the rock, protect the QB and catch some passes....... I blame DA O'Brien for a lot, but come on, Foster gets paid to play, just like the "back-up RB does" I am sure Foster did not have a problem getting 2 TD's when we were already down 41-0 at half, I am sure he would of liked to break one and get a 100 yard game to go along with his TD's...... and he was going against a prevent defense playing back ups..... JMHO
 
I feel for the guy. He maybe a douche off the field, but he plays balls to the wall every game on the field. He'll probably be a salary cap casualty given his injury history.
 
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You knew when you saw him writhing in pain that he was through for the season and probably for good. No way they can keep paying that salary to a guy who can't stay on the field.
He wasn't even touched when he went down, so it wouldn't have helped to have kept him on the bench. The same thing would have happened on the way to the shower.
Thanks for the memories, Arian.
 
I wonder if he wants to come back at this point. In the past he has discussed interests outside of football and his desire to be be healthy and have a good long life after the NFL. He has made great dollars. Might be a good time to focus on the next stage of his life.
 
Arian shouldn't have been in the game at that point. After halftime O'Brien should've just put the reserves in or at least sit his star players to protect from injury. I got kind of mad seeing Watt limping around the field and still playing in a blowout game. We are only 1 game behind the Colts so with Foster there was a slight chance to win the division. Now there's no chance.
 
A time to chill said:
Arian shouldn't have been in the game at that point. After halftime O'Brien should've just put the reserves in or at least sit his star players to protect from injury. I got kind of mad seeing Watt limping around the field and still playing in a blowout game. We are only 1 game behind the Colts so with Foster there was a slight chance to win the division. Now there's no chance.
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Jason Peters just blew his out again
 
DocBar said:
I don't know why there is so much negativity about AF returning to the Texans. I fully expect Rick Smith to sign Foster to a 2 yr. contract extension tomorrow, with about $48M fully guaranteed. That would be par for the course with Rick Smith.
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Had it not been for his brothers tweet I'd agree


Abdul Foster– ‏@AbdulFoster
I still think he has some ball left in him.. It’ll be up to him. Long road and a potential new squad and city.. Feel for the kid.
 
DocBar said:
I don't know why there is so much negativity about AF returning to the Texans. I fully expect Rick Smith to sign Foster to a 2 yr. contract extension tomorrow, with about $48M fully guaranteed. That would be par for the course with Rick Smith.
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If foster was 36 years old I'd totally believe you.

Thanks for the great effort Arian. Never a fan of the interviews or Twitter nonsense but his effort on the field was always on. Great athlete all around. I wish him the best with the future whatever or wherever that is.
 
OrangeLotPole8 said:
Foster gets paid!!!!!! He has missed a butt load of time already, his job is to tote the rock, protect the QB and catch some passes....... I blame DA O'Brien for a lot, but come on, Foster gets paid to play, just like the "back-up RB does" I am sure Foster did not have a problem getting 2 TD's when we were already down 41-0 at half, I am sure he would of liked to break one and get a 100 yard game to go along with his TD's...... and he was going against a prevent defense playing back ups..... JMHO
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It is awful coaching to have Foster in the game... not because I feel bad for Foster but because it is irresponsible for the good of the 2015 Texans to have its best offensive asset (still battling injuries) to continue to play in the 4th quarter of a decided football game. Just like it was irresponsible to risk Cecil Shorts on a ridiculous effort to score a meaningless TD with one second left in a decided football game. Very poor!
 
Thorn said:
Dude could run AND catch. And block. We won't see his like again for a while.
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This. When healthy we had Eric Dickerson. The likes of Arian is not easy to replace with that smooth glide.

But by God can we at least find the next Curtis Martin?
 
Before the game Arian already stated that his groin was sore. This messes with core mechanics which translates into messing with lower joint mechanics.......which translates to instability........which translates to abnormal stresses on all lower limb structures..................and all this without introducing rain and a slippery field. Watching the play, it is obvious that Arian slipped with his foot thus being acutely forced into severe dorsiflexion (foot bent up and back towards the tibia) while his entire body weight shifted forward further dorsiflexing his foot, which placed sudden extreme tension on the Achilles tendon until it ruptured.

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He should have never been out there once it started raining....................especially when it was obvious the game as far the Texans were concerned was over.

As I also posted during the game, Clowney with his recent ankle and microfracture knee should not have been in there..............and JJ who obviously had sprained his ankle in the first half and was limping at times in the second also had no business out there.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Before the game Arian already stated that his groin was sore. This messes with core mechanics which translates into messing with lower joint mechanics.......which translates to instability........which translates to abnormal stresses on all lower limb structures..................and all this without introducing rain and a slippery field. Watching the play, it is obvious that Arian slipped with his foot thus being acutely forced into severe dorsiflexion (foot bent up and back towards the tibia) while his entire body weight shifted forward further dorsiflexing his foot, which placed sudden extreme tension on the Achilles tendon until it ruptured.

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He should have never been out there once it started raining....................especially when it was obvious the game as far the Texans were concerned was over.

As I also posted during the game, Clowney with his recent ankle and microfracture knee should not have been in there..............and JJ who obviously had sprained his ankle in the first half and was limping at times in the second also had no business out there.
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All this reeks of desperation by the coaches .
 
Honoring Earl 34 said:
I'm not a doctor nor did I sleep at a Holiday Inn . I just went on the history of him rupturing his Achilles twice and really not being hit .
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Understandable for sure. I would suspect that most that did sleep at a Holiday Inn would think the same. Consider yourself lucky...........You saved yourself some money!:D
 
Last year it was not removing Mallett in the Bengals game even though he was clearly injured and unable to perform, handing us a loss we couldn't afford in a winnable game that was to that point the biggest of the season.

This year it was Arian Foster who for some incomprehensible reason given the game situation and his very own injury history was still in the game, as well as our other starters including the best player on the planet.

Despicably inept, unfathomably dangerous, ultimately catastrophic coaching and management.
 
TheMatrix31 said:
Last year it was not removing Mallett in the Bengals game even though he was clearly injured and unable to perform, handing us a loss we couldn't afford in a winnable game that was to that point the biggest of the season.

This year it was Arian Foster who for some incomprehensible reason given the game situation and his very own injury history was still in the game, as well as our other starters including the best player on the planet.

Despicably inept, unfathomably dangerous, ultimately catastrophic coaching and management.
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Yep. The guy you want making decisions like "When to pull the QB who clearly has some problem affecting his game" and "When to sit the valuable injury prone stars in a hopeless cause" needs to be quicker on the uptake than O'Brien is and that's now been well documented.

I imagine that unless you're an NFL head coach in the Jack Pardee in 1990-1994 mode and just giving up damn near all control to your respective OC and DC when their units are on the field you probably are balancing a million things at one time during a game. Some guys look and perform like they thrive on it. Others look lost and a step behind the whole way. At times O'Brien has appeared (to me at least) both ways but I think a pattern has started to emerge. Once things get sort of out of control on him he gets overwhelmed and can't pull it all back together. Bad decisions like these appear to follow.
 
If you weren't convinced this year is a bust, you should be now. No running game, no O line, no QB, no TEs with hands. And one wide receiver that's really good. And a completely lost defense.

Watt should welcome Hopkins to his world.
 
JCTexan said:
I was wondering why we kept handing it to him in a blowout game.
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He slipped and fell going in motion. Usually when a tendon tears it was already on its way. If it wouldn't have happened in this game, it was going to happen eventually.
Arian's probably ecstatic he doesn't have to suit up for this horrible team, probably ever again.
 
mridge01 said:
He slipped and fell going in motion. Usually when a tendon tears it was already on its way. If it wouldn't have happened in this game, it was going to happen eventually.
Arian's probably ecstatic he doesn't have to suit up for this horrible team, probably ever again.
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You are referring to Achilles tendinopathy (tendinosis or tendinitis) that precedes many, but certainly not all ruptures. However, in an NFL RB, symptoms and signs of tendinopathy are supposed to be constantly monitored for these conditions. Morning stiffness with subsequent swelling and tenderness around the tendon area or the calf. With any suspicion, simple ultrasound will be utilized to identify the pathology. If the results are in any way equivocal, MRI will be ordered to confirm the diagnosis. When tendonopathy is identified, it can be successfully treated conservatively with the most important component being rest, anywhere from several days to 6 weeks in the case of tendonitis and 6 -8 weeks in the case of tendinosis (sometimes months in those cases allowed to become chronic) depending on its extent. This is the approach that would be used with an elite RB with a history of high carry load. That's why you seldom see an Achilles rupture in an elite NFL RB (see how many can you name.) who is typically handled as they were gold. These injuries are not usually inevitable unless they are caused by a traumatic single unforeseen forceful overstretch of the Achilles tendon.

Just for emphasis, the gradual tendinopathy course to rupture is usually seen in the older population. The acute traumatic forceful overstretch is the typical course to rupture in a young healthy athlete. Arian's injury was caused as a result of the latter.
 
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Feel bad for the guy. It felt like he was one of the only ones playing as hard as he could during the short time frame I watched that crap.

Y'all can say what you want about the guy, but he was basically our offense. Primarily during the Kubiak years, but he was the one that made the offense what it was back then.
 
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