DPJ and Dwumfour more serious injuries than previously thought
Okay just a little scared here.
Uh--
Fuck.
This was reported by Matt Pargoff: Harbaugh asked if Dwumfour and DPJ injuries could hold them out for the season. Said they could. Says neither requires surgery - soft tissue injuries - but worries when injuries linger. Says players are the best judge of what their bodies can do.
Sounds potential more serious unless it’s subtext from Harbaugh
Edit- Please disregard, I see this has been discusssed at length in another thread.
My wife has torn her plantar fascia twice. She was in a walking boot for about 4 weeks each time, and within 8 weeks she was back to normal. I'm not a doctor but I have a hard time believing this injury alone will affect the 2019 season.
That's a big man with a lot of stress on the ligaments/fascia in the foot. Partial/complete tears are pretty uncommon so I don't know what his outlook is like, but it makes me think of hamstring injuries where they may heal but there is no guarantee the body will be able to handle the same sort of impact it could before the injury.
DPJ is dealing with a groin injury and will heal up this summer. Dwumfour has been dealing with that foot issue since the end of last season. He will return for fall camp.
And with that, I remove the noose from my neck and climb off the chair.
"The plantar fascia is a long way from the heart."
Herb Brooks
. . . candy ass
You rat bastard! I had almost forgotten about you!
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Perfect username.
For really shitty news.
Good job (I think)
What a great start to the year. Gotta love being a Michigan fan.
We were in the national championship basketball game one year ago. There is not a special kind of pain reserved for us. On balance, in combined basketball and football fandom, Michigan fans have more than like 95% of other athletic programs to be happy about.
I’m a huge fan of both the basketball and football programs. But their hype and excitement will always be separate, atleast for me. And in this instance, I was referring to being a Michigan football fan. Where it does seem like when we have any sort of momentum or excitement, it all comes to crashing hault due to an unexpected injury or unexpected loss.
Getting our asses kicked twice on national TV is not how I'd care to define happiness.
As opposed to "regional" TV? Is that still a thing?
Oh yeah. Realistically, what else would the BTN, the SEC Network, the Pac-12 Network and the Longhorn Network be other than regional TV?
TCU had to cancel their spring game because they do not have enough healthy players to field both sides. So, it could be worse.
You’re right, that would be worse. Holy hell that would be a nightmare.
Still better than living in Ohio.
Relax, northermich. It's just spring practice. These guys have months to heal.
Torn plantar fascia hurts like hell for anyone. For a man Dwumfors size I can only imagine how much worse it feels with all that weight on it. Please be healthy for the start of the year DPJ. We need all our WRs to be healthy at the same time for once.
And especially for a man his size that relies on his get-off to make a difference, this seems bad.
Doesn't every many rely on his get-off to make a difference? I know I do.
Damn Hatter, and here I thought I was the pig.
Why can't we have nice things?!?
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and... let's not forget that Ari Gold got his JD/MBA from The University of Michigan
So many layers to that gif, so deep
Said he doesn't know if they'll play this year.
Don't know if that's Harbaugh being Harbaugh or if that's really the sentiment.
Did he say that? That wasn't quoted by Webb.
There were a couple of beat writer types alluding to it. It probably wasn't a direct quote from Harbaugh but more of a response to a question if it could be season ending. He said something like "It could" type of Harbaugh response.
James Yoder is reporting it.
and your point is that it’s less credible? Yoder has no connections
It's in the transcript of Harbaugh's presser on the front page of this here website.
Obviously any lost time is bad but its five months until the season.
That certainly explains the DL two deep discussed the other day and why Dwumfour wasn't on it.
Well the good news is we have terrific depth on our Dline so this shouldn't be a problem. I'm pretty sure we've got more back-up fullbacks we can toss down there don't we?
Maybe Nordin should give DL a go if he loses the PK battle
Yes we have excellent depth. Besides Mason we can throw Ben Van Sumeran out there. If he is too young to hack it, Dane Drobocky and Carl Myers will come in and we won't miss a beat. This D-Line will definitely be better than last years.
That was a spring depth chart. not a projection for the fall. Lavert Hill, Danna, Daxton Hill, etc weren't on it either.
That sucks for sure. Anyone know the recovery timelines for Dwumfour’s injury? google said 3 months for returning to high impact activity but, is Google, so...
Also what is a serious soft tissue injury?
And if someone can answer what a soft tissue injury is, can you also had what a hard tissue injury is?
Yeah I don’t get the soft tissue thing. Maybe it’s DPJ’s earlobe and we panic for nothing.
A hard tissue injury is not something guys joke about.
I am not a doctor but I've seen a soft tissue injury up close when ma took a bad tumble on a slope a long time ago. She broke the fall with her palm; thankfully her wrist was not broken but. . . soft tissue injury.
"Soft tissue" means it's not a broken bone or torn ligament or torn muscle or such (which all have their own terms); I guess sprains & contusions & tears are also technically soft tissue injuries but in those cases they usually just call them that. In my experience when they go out of their way to say "soft tissue injury", as the name implies, it's a general "meat got mushed" situation. The body has to cart away the wreckage cell by cell and replace it with healthy tissue. The area swells up. A LOT. Mom's as thin as a rail but for a number of weeks it looked like she got a forearm transplant from Jabba the Hutt.
In the long term there's nothing serious about that sort of soft tissue injury, but the downside is that there's nothing to be done about it either. There's generally no surgery to repair "meat" and you can't feasibly rehab a limb that's swollen to 5-6 times its normal size. In ma's case, the wrist just wouldn't bend. You just have to wait until the swelling goes down, which takes weeks because the body has a huge clean-up & rebuild job and there's no way to speed up the process.
Dunno where DPJ's injury is but he should be fine, if frustrated at the loss of time. If it's a tear then never mind, but then I don't see a reason to be deliberately vague in early April.
Soft tissue implies any muscle, ligament, tendon, or fascia. DPJ’s injury and Dwumfour’s injury are both soft tissue, Harbaugh was just more specific about Dwumfours diagnosis. DPJ’s injury sounds like a sports hernia/ groin/ abdominal wall injury kind of like Nick Bosa’s. But all injuries are different. Depends on what happened, the tissue injured, the blood supply, etc...