Clowney with Season Ending Injury (microfracture surgery, out 9 months)

Which injury are we talking about? The torn meniscus or the cartilage damage? The awful turf was absolutely responsible for the torn meniscus....unless we are to assume that Clowney lied on the field to Swearinger, and there's no reason to think that.

 

Lie implies he knew the truth and tried to deceive. He said he stepped in a hole, video shows he didn't. If it felt like a hole, it might be because his knew failed.

 

I trust what the player said he felt over looking at grainy film that doesn't really tell anyone the consistency of the turf below his foot. Either way at this point it's moot. Once the lawsuit is over, I'm sure they'll change the turf and hopefully it'll happen before another high profile player ends up hurt.

 

It's not grainy film. It's a top of the line HD Camera. The punchin makes it blurry but it does not distort the shapes.

1) The foot was perfectly perpendicular to the ground. It landed flat and his knee buckled.
2) Clowney was looking straight in front of him. He had no idea what was going on below him. The force of his tendons tearing and likely giving into his weight might have given the sensation of stepping in a hole since was not looking at his foot at all.
3) No journalist that follows the team ever cites the hole. I will take the opinion of Mark Berman over yours.



http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/20140...meinfo|contentId:0ap3000000390995&tab=analyze
Look at it for yourself. His foot was angled down while in the air and then clearly falls flat when it hits the ground. If he landed in a hole then his foot would have maintained a similar angle. You're wrong guy.

 

Heh, exactly my point, this highly pixelated image doesn't show me what the consistency of the turf was like and doesn't show if there was any unnatural give to the playing surface....but apparently you think it shows you that so well you are willing to think that you know better than the guy who felt it.

Can't argue with crazy.

 

Man dude........

1) He wasn't looking where he was stepping
2) Pixelated doesn't mean it distorts shape. Watch the video. His foot hits a flat surface and flattens out.

He didn't see what happened. I absolutely believe that it felt like he was falling in a hole but what he really felt was the tendons in his knee tearing and his leg giving in for a second.

 

When I tore my ACL the first time playing a game of 1 on 1 with my friend I thought he hit me in the knee. He wasn't anywhere near me in reality. Who knows what happened with Clowney, but it doesn't look like the field was the issue.

 

This goes beyond depressing into the morbidly funny. Colts offensive tackle Gosder Cherilus had micro fracture surgery and offered this opinion of Cloweny's comeback bid.


"He's screwed."

A colt is the last guy that is going to be optimistic about a Texan. Still a funny read.

http://www.indystar.com/story/colts...rilus-colts-jadeveon-clowney-texans/20265145/

 

i didn't laugh.

 

Before the draft I felt the Texans should of drafted Khalil Mack.

 

Well, that sucks.

 

fantastic commentary.

 

I disagree...terrible grammar.

I can't believe people still say "should of".

 

I'm okay with departing from correct spelling/grammar when it is used to create such vivid imagery and informative tales. ..but to each his own.

 

At this point, Clowney is a sunk cost. We (as fans, as an organization, etc) need to move on just as we should've with Tony Boselli all those years ago. I feel bad for him as a person, and as Texans fan, I'm thinking about what pass rushers we can add to compliment JJ in the next draft.

Goodness, can the Texans catch a freakin' break?!

 

No one to blame here, just some old fashioned Texans bad luck.

Got to pray for better luck.

 

Great news...now he can just add 60lbs and become a lineman

 

we're acting like this was the team's fault. the organization loved the potential of pairing him with watt and how uncomfortable they'd make every qb feel, look at the bills with that front seven. almost every team would have taken clowney with that pick.

 

We'll know what the Texans really think about Clowney if they draft another pass rusher next year.

 

I can't see them doing it early when they will have holes elsewhere. I see them going after a receiver to be Hopkins' long term partner.