Will Tate be ready for spring?

Submitted by AlbMichFan on

Sorry if i have missed this guys but is Tate going to play in the spring game following his shoulder surgery?

saveferris

February 11th, 2010 at 11:52 AM ^

If you're going to injure your throwing shoulder hurling stuff at a FREEP delivery truck, it should be something more threatening than snowballs.

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Zone Left

February 11th, 2010 at 11:56 AM ^

I hope he plays in the Spring Game and plays well. The board will implode with speculation and amazing thread titles if Forcier sits out and Gardner looks bad.

Here are some forecastable thread titles:

NO BOWL!!

UNACCEPTABLE!!!

RR gets fired!!!

Real M fans stand up!!!!!!

It's going to be a great summer.

JC3

February 11th, 2010 at 12:04 PM ^

Tate's been throwing with the other quarterbacks a couple times a week. I think Jerald Robinson was quoted as saying he had a lot of zip on his passes.

jblaze

February 11th, 2010 at 12:06 PM ^

Relevant quotes:

"Forcier was diagnosed with the injury when he underwent an MRI while home for Christmas break. He’s rehabbing the shoulder now and doesn’t need surgery, and he’s also recovering from a staph infection in his right knee, the person said."

"Forcier already is taking part in workouts with the football team and will not miss any spring practice."

http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-football/michigan-quarterback-tate-fo…

Chadillac Grillz

February 11th, 2010 at 12:16 PM ^

Come on people, the only thing I've heard is that he won't need surgery and he won't miss time. What other reason is there to speculate? If you "heard" that he was getting surgery go and check legitimate news sources, otherwise please don't speculate.

MGoJen

February 11th, 2010 at 12:49 PM ^

The labrum is acutally a type of cartilage--but it's more rigid and fibrous than other types of cartilage. So the shoulder is obviously a ball-and-socket--the labrum is the cartilage that is attached to the rim of the socket. It works pretty much like a buffer helping to keep the "ball" in place.

There are different kinds of labral tears with varying degrees of severity/treatment options, but the main problem with a labral tear is a loss of shoulder stability. (I suspect some of the crazy inaccurate throws he made toward the end of the season were actually do to an inability to stabilize his throwing motion.)

Because of the different types it's difficult to diagnose the actual type of labral tear without a CT-arthrogram (shoot dye into the shoulder and then take a picture.) Cartilage is avascular (does not have blood vessels) so it takes longer for it to grow/repair in general.

Short answer: he'll be fine. His doctors and trainers know what they're doing and wouldn't be allowing him to throw right now if his labrum were in jeopardy.

Edit: CT-aRthrogram not aNthrogram--must be my Liberal Arts subconscious, haha.