Right, playing or sitting is not CM3's decision. The Packers will listen to the Drs and protect their investment.
What ?
Are you trying to tell us that the Packers use trained professionals instead of emotional fans to make decisions ?
That's crazy talk...
Relax SJ. We wouldn't want your IP address captured and a visit from Guido in your future.
and I miss the old NFL. RG's version is for wimps and second-guessers..
you figure it out.
Crazy talk? Is that akin to being blissfully ignorant ?
do people read his name as Pin Gee, or Ping? I see it an think "Ping."
and he's comically wrong.
no way I'm getting that out of my head
TT is gay and MM is a stupid fat idot.
Discussion over.
It took me a while to determine if that was satire or not..
Awesome sauce.
Yep. thumb is busted off at the joint closest to the hand. Yeah, just cut it off and play. Who needs any grip with their hand. **** it, it's football.
Originally Posted by Hungry5:
Pee in Gee
that's how I read it as well...
Maybe 4 weeks will be "all" he needs:
Recovery from such a surgery can vary because of individual circumstances, but a hand and wrist specialist from a well-known sports medicine clinic in California said Tuesday that football players at positions that don’t regularly handle the ball, including an outside linebacker such as Matthews, usually need four weeks to heal before they can return to the field.
“You want to make sure there’s some healing there, even if he’s going to go back with a cast on,” said Dr. Steve Shin, a hand and wrist surgeon at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic clinic in Los Angeles. “I usually wait four weeks to get some healing there and, at that point, if pins were used you can take them out and put him in a cast and let him play.”
Well, at least his hamstring will get a rest and should be good for the rest of the season.
Unless favoring his thumb puts more stress on this hamstring.
Packers linebacker Clay Matthews broke his thumb on Sunday in a game against the Lions and is expected to be sidelined for some weeks.
Some will tell you they predicted calamity for Matthews, that it was inevitable.
Some will tell you Matthews was not the victim of random, freakish bad luck.
Some say Matthews was just another victim of the Chunky Soup Curse, in which those who choose to endorse that product suffer injury, failure on the field and humiliation. The curse is said to extend even to the mothers who appear with their sons in these ads.
Matthews is among those NFL players this season who have been seen in TV spots for Chunky Soup.
Among the earliest victims of the curse, according to adherents to this soup sorcery, was Packers defensive end Reggie White, who took that endorsement in 1997. Even though White started all 16 games in the regular season and three in the postseason, he had to battle through a collection physical ailiments.
Endorsers beware.
Believers finger Chunky Soup Curse as reason for Clay Matthews' broken thumb - JSOnline
maybe Chunky should hire <insert name of entity in the world that is largely despised here> for their commercials.
have to say, never heard about this chunky soup curse buffoonery before.
Clay should just take the rest of the year off I guess...
He may miss the entire season anyway if he has any soup while he's recuperating. This soup thing is potentially very serious. He needs to stay away from soup the rest of the year if we're to have any chance at all of winning the Super Bowl.
Could it be 3 weeks?
Initial reports had Clay Matthews missing at least four weeks due to a broken thumb that required surgery. Since the surgery reportedly required pins to be inserted into his hand, the thought was that Clay would need to wait four weeks to have the pins removed and then would miss a little more time after that to heal further.
However, Packers coach Mike McCarthy may know some things that we don't. The Packers coach said that the team could expect Clay to possibly return much sooner than that:
Packers head coach Mike McCarthy told Rich Gannon and Bruce Murray of SiriusXM Radio that linebacker Clay Matthews could be out three or four weeks.With most reports saying Matthews would miss roughly a month, many had assumed four games or more.Certainly, nothing will become official until a later date, but perhaps Matthews’ timeline for return has become more optimistic.Granted, we need to know more before putting anything official together in terms of a timeline, but for the Packers coach to say that Clay could be back in three weeks is a good indication that there are reasons to be optimistic about Clay's recovery from surgery.
This would be the first instance in the Thompson/McCarthy era where a player came back sooner than initially reported or what any of us expected - after having been tricked numerous times into believing the couple of weeks line of BS.
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3-4 weeks today is not much different than 4-5 weeks last Sunday.
Kevin Greene on 52:"He’s going to come back and he’s going have all that pent up fire and passion for the game and he’s going to let it go."
K.Greene wouldn't say if GB better off at OLB without 52 this time, but did say, "I really feel good about who’s in my room. I feel solid.”
MM has under estimated the return date from every injury since he became HC.
Why should we believe the lower end of his estimated return dates now?
I'll believe he's back when he's suited up and on the field.
If Perry and Neal play the next 4 games like last week they may not rush CM3 back.
Packers counting on new and improved Perry.
On an unrelated note:
When did "room" become the shorthand buzzword used by coaches:
as in the "Quarterbacks room", the "Running backs room" or here, shortened by Green to ""I really feel good about who’s in my room."
Corporate vernacular bull**** permeates every walk of professional life. This is just another catchy phrase that's all the buzz these days.
I feel like reaching out to you on that one.
You guys aren't thinking outside the box enough.
Originally Posted by El-Ka-Bong:
do people read his name as Pin Gee, or Ping? I see it an think "Ping."
and he's comically wrong.
sorry for being wrong, comically.........
also sorry for not matching your opinion 100%
Make fun of PinG all you want: nothinging to do with east asia.
too bad you are one of the guys that has no real personal opinion.
also sorry that PAKRZ is still wound up about being the reseident tough guy_ cop...
I think that shoeless and I could really end up being freinds, once I learn to accept his form of humor.
it is pretty funny. most of you have a learned trait. this trait keeps you within the boundries of those you are trying to impress.
I RESPECT Henry, he tells it like he sees it.
I respect Boris, see above and without him we do not have this venue.
I repect Packerboi because he is alway fair.
tit is my favorite poster because of what he invests of his time to make everything easier.
Shoeless and Gravedigger are very knowledgeable and contribute a lot. i learn a lot from them as well. even though i played through highschool. i was also on the same team as Billy Schroeder in college.
Rusty is just funny, and keeps things sane.
what do you, EKB, offer to this forum, other than seconding someone elses opininion? I am pretty sure that in the 12 years I have been here, you have never actually had your OWN opinion. please, show me that you have. maybe i can change my opinion.
until then, you are not much different than Digger.
In my opinion, you can be overly sensitive sometimes
now that I think about it, that may actually be someone else's opinion and I am just seconding it.
dammit this is hard
quote:In my opinion, you can be overly sensitive sometimes
Probably learned it from Billy Schroeder. Do you have alligator arms too, PinG?
:sarcasm:
For the record, I enjoy both poster PinG and Elko Bong or whatever he's calling himself this week.
Originally Posted by El-Ka-Bong:
In my opinion, you can be overly sensitive sometimes
or, maybe, i m a little drunk on Blue Label right now and am not thinking clearly.
a lot of stress... Poker night tonight.
BTW, PinG was correct...... Packers-fan in Germany..........
Originally Posted by Fedya:
quote:In my opinion, you can be overly sensitive sometimes
Probably learned it from Billy Schroeder. Do you have alligator arms too, PinG?
:sarcasm:
For the record, I enjoy both poster PinG and Elko Bong or whatever he's calling himself this week.
thank you! but, i really dont contribute much to the forum.
Yes, I have extremely short arms! B.S. was B.S. in college as well. great guy, but afraid of the hit. Respect, he made it to the NFL, i did not......... dude was/is fast........
and a player!
EKB, please stop bullying PinG because he is the first member on this forum to give me a public compliment since 2010. He's a good boy.
If you think Bong has never had his own opinion, then you've never asked him about Dom Capers.
I wonder how Clay's thumb is doing.
