Finley......injury updates

I suppose we could aks him. It won't phase him. Maybe the mistake was on accident. What's your guyses opinion?

ChilliJon, I like the cut of your jibe.  Good idea.

I speak jive.

IC understood what I meant.

No doubt Finley wants to return:

A steady flow of visitors, including several teammates, have seen Finley at the hospital. Fellow Packers tight end Andrew Quarless, who visited Finley on Sunday night, said one of the first things Finley asked the doctor was when he could return to the field.

 

"One of his biggest things was, 'I'm going to get back,'" Quarless said. "That's in any of us. Anytime any guys go down, I mean this is what we love to do, so that's the first thing [Finley asked]. 'When am I going to get back? What's the timetable?' and stuff like that. So that's a little bit of what they talked about."

Packers tight end Brandon Bostick visited Finley on Monday and also came away thinking Finley has every intention of resuming his career.

 

"You know Jermichael, he's a competitor; he definitely wants to play," Bostick said. "I definitely think he'll be back as soon as he can."

Still recovering:

Unlike tackle Derek Sherrod on the physically unable to perform list, rookie lineman J.C. Tretter still has a ways to go in his recovery from a fracture at the lower end of his fibula and torn ligaments in his ankle. Saying he's making progress, Tretter has been running and doing agility drills — but not at full speed yet.

 

"There's no pain or anything in it," Tretter said, "so it all feels good."

 

But even if the Packers had room on the roster, Tretter isn't ready quite yet.

 

"Not yet," he said. "I still need to hit full speed and I haven't gone against anybody. I haven't had to react. So not yet, but I still have some time to go before that decision is made." -jsonline (TH/10/24)

 

I just don't see them activating him to the roster this year.  Almost surely going IR in a couple of weeks.

I see Finley signing a one-year deal with the Pack if he doesn't come back, to give him a chance at a big payday. IF he can continue to play.

how can you argue with this man?  Clearly an atourknee after football

Don't necessarily disagree with the GF part of his comment, but overall a douchey statement. Ah, I'll stop head-hunting and instead go for the knee blow-up. 

what about murderers?  do they get a pass?

They should extend his suspension to 2 games again just for that comment.

I think Merriweather's comment was a dig at Brandon Marshall who wants to punch Merriweather. Marshall was accused of abusing a former GF.

I'll stop being snide for a second.

Beating your girlfriend is a bad thing.  Headhunting in the NFL is a bad thing.  The two are not terribly connected.  "Because I don't hit my girlfriend" is not a good defense for headhunting in the NFL.  Threatening to take out people knees should get the attention not only of the NFL, but the NFLPA as well. 

Other teams should threaten to forfeit games and not show up if Merriweather is on the opposing team.

No game, no commercials....

I think the NFL might take notice. 

It's OK that I steal because I don't murder.

Sounds like a wunderkid.  Brilliant thought process.

yeah, and who knew there was the thing called the "mid-section" of a player!?!?!

"I thought there were only heads and knees running around out there," Meriweather muttered to himself in his league appointed Human Anatomy 101 Class.

When players openly say a guy should be banned from the league, that tells me that at some point someone is going to take this MFer out, perhaps for good.  He'll be standing too close to a pile for too long or get caught with a blindside block.  At a certain point, the players are going to police themselves if they feel there's a guy out there trying to end their careers and not enough is being done about it.

Aside from being stupid and a turd, it seems like not enough folks point out regularly that he really isn't even any good.  

Maybe like Jennings he was only joking about the knees comment?

If it's the NFL or NFLPA as El-Ka noted, the players themselves or his averageness as JJSD wrote, he likely doesn't last much longer in the league.

More of what Merriweather said.

"To be honest, man, you've just got to go low now, man," Meriweather said, via Zac Boyer of The Washington Times. "You've got to end people's careers, you know? You've got to tear people's ACLs and mess up people's knees now. You can't hit them high no more. You've just got to go low."

As opposed to scrambling their brains and sending them down the path to CTE? He doesn't see the career ending potential from head-shots?  Unbelievable...

stupid does as stupid is.

if I was his coach I'd bench him for the upcoming game just for speaking so stupidly to the press...

or bench him for ****ty play

I always hope some guy on offense is going to have enough of a cheap shot artist on defense to go outside the rules during a play and send a message.  Can't remember the last time it actually happened, though.  I think most of the players are more worried about taking a bad penalty than getting revenge.   

I always hope some guy on offense is going to have enough of a cheap shot artist on defense to go outside the rules during a play and send a message.

I really liked it when Donny Anderson took out Fred "The Hammer" Williamson (albeit unintentionally) in SB I after he said he was going to take out Dale & Dowler with a cheap shot. Poetic justice if there ever was any.

Neither is a good option, but for what it's worth I've seen a couple ex players say they'd rather get hit high than low.  According to them losing your legs is the quickest ticket out of the league. 

It should really be a reflection of the coaching staff that a guy like him continues to play this way.  The NFL needs to get serious about a repeat offender. Fine the position coach. Fine the defensive coordinator, the head coach, and the team as well.  They're at the very least 50% responsible for  repeat offenders not correcting their actions and being put back on the field to further endanger opposing players.  They start doing that and I bet this kind of crap ends right quick. 

There's little incentive for a coaching staff not to direct their players to repeatedly injure players on other teams.  It's long past time they fix that aspect of the situation and hold the franchises accountable for the players on the field. 

Did we pay this week?  Where is the list?

Finley, 1st person

Powerful story.

underwent a series of exams (CT scan, MRI, X-Ray, etc.) to determine the extent of the injury. Monday afternoon, our team doctors and my agent sent out copies to a half-dozen spine experts around the country. It may have looked like I had another concussion, after suffering one in Cincinnati last month, but it turns out the injury is what doctors have called a spinal cord contusion. The blow shocked my spine, and left me with a two-centimeter bruise on my spinal cord that should heal in time.

 

If this injury prevents me from ever playing football again, I will be able to collect on $10 million tax-free. For me, this is the equivalent of making another $16 million or $17 million in pre-tax salary. While money has absolutely nothing to do with my decision to play, I can sleep at night knowing that regardless of what happens, my family is financially secure forever—maybe the biggest odds I’ll ever overcome

 

Then says...

 

Of course I plan to play football again. This is what I love to do. I love the game. I love Sundays. Based on the feedback I’ve received from doctors at this point, the question is not if I’ll play again, but when. There is no better feeling in the world than making the “Lambeau Leap” into the stands, and I fully intend on having that surreal feeling again soon. I will do everything in my power to rehab and get back to the player I have been, and improve into the player I know I can be.

 

 

That was a great article by Finley!  Very well written and insightful!

Highly doubt he'll play again this season. If I we're him, I'd take the money again and run but perhaps he is determined to play if he's cleared.

If he can't return, he becomes a FA. I don't see GB re-signing him unless they are 100 percent convinced his spinal injury has no residuals and he comes on the cheap. Knee injury, concussion, now spinal injury...fair or not, you can consider him injury prone.

With TT's ability to find quality WR's and TE's (he found Finley after all),  I think we'll have a new weapon at TE via the 2014 draft. JMO.

I wonder how the disability insurance works in a case like this...if he is cleared by doctors but chooses not to play because of concerns over his injury- will he get paid ?

Finley will do everything he can to get back on the field this season, not only to help the Packers, but also to show others he is a viable player going forward

Thanks for posting this. Great article.

from the comment section:

Thanks for the link... great article. 

I found this statement telling.

I remember seeing the defender out of the corner of my eye, and I intentionally lowered my head and shoulders to protect my knees.

He was willing to give up his head (just after having a concussion) to protect his knees.

If he's cleared he'll play again for the Packers. If he's cleared I see no reason for the Packers to not re-sign him. If he's cleared he is still relatively young and a match-up problem.

Never underestimate the level of stupidity running loose in society.

It should be mandatory that they all carry scissors. 

Natural selection... thin the herd.