TexanExile said:
Love the optimism. I really hope you're right. But this has been a looooooooooong recovery and I have to think that even the hands will take a while to get up to NFL proficiency.
This was an unusual injury that was apparrently also unusually severe and I'm still not totally clear on what happened last year - did he have a repeat of
the the origional '03 injury, was it somehow a related but different injury than the '03 problem , or was last year a new and unrelated injury to '03.
At any rate, let me be another voice of optimism. He is running OK and that is
the problem with a groin injury, you can't run without pain. So I don't think its
a contact related injury - he just needs to get into "football shape" again.
But having 2 years off from contact, his body is really sorta 2 years younger than what it would be had he gone thru 2 NFL campaigns, - so that's a plus.
But consider the amazing resiliance young pro athlete's have - Terrel Owens
is testimony to that. In what 2 months, 6 weeks, whatever he's in the SB after sustaining the kind of injury he did. So I think we have room for optimism - but guarded optimism.