Originally Posted by staylor26:
It's not just the healing part that is a freak accident, the injury itself was a freak accident. It had absolutely nothing to do with him being injury prone, and it's silly to pretend otherwise.
If Hollywood had a hamstring or something that kept him out a few weeks, it would be fair to say "I told you so". This is not a scenario where it's fair to play that game. It was 100% a freak bad luck situation, regardless of your opinion on his injury history or mine.
{shrug}
Kid who's twice had fractures in a relatively short NFL career had another fracture. Or if you prefer to refer to is strictly as a sprain (though I think we know it was probably both), he's had multiple ankle/foot/knee sprains as well.
It's not THAT fluky in relation to the rest of his injury history. It's just different. [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
I'm just not buying that his past injuries, none of which were related to this one, had anything to do with how this one healed. You're reaching really hard to try and say this wasn't bad luck when it obviously was.
If the odds of something happening are 1 in 6 and you roll a dice and hit the one on the first try....I guess you could call that bad luck. But hell man, there was still a non-zero chance you hit it.
And since each roll is technically independent of the next, the odds of you putting up the one on the first roll aren't any different than you doing it on the 5th.
It's just a probability thing. The odds of an injury of SOME sort were pretty high. He's always had them.
And the odds of an injury not healing right aren't nearly AS high, but they're non-zero. And with the number of injuries he's had, at some point there was a real possibility that he'd roll that one. Is it bad luck? I mean I guess - but it's still not something that should blindside you either. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
If the odds of something happening are 1 in 6 and you roll a dice and hit the one on the first try....I guess you could call that bad luck. But hell man, there was still a non-zero chance you hit it.
And since each roll is technically independent of the next, the odds of you putting up the one on the first roll aren't any different than you doing it on the 5th.
It's just a probability thing. The odds of an injury of SOME sort were pretty high. He's always had them.
And the odds of an injury not healing right aren't nearly AS high, but they're non-zero. And with the number of injuries he's had, at some point there was a real possibility that he'd roll that one. Is it bad luck? I mean I guess - but it's still not something that should blindside you either.
Sorry, but this is just silly DJ. His past injuries had absolutely 100% nothing to do with how this one healed, and it's not just how it healed, the injury itself was bad luck too.
Injury prone type of injuries are inevitable. If that guy doesn't fall on Hollywood that way at that moment he never hurts his shoulder this season. It was all pure bad luck, and pointing to his injury history as if we should've saw it coming is just nonsense. [Reply]