I mean, guys, duncan_idaho is not an NFL caliber athlete, and duncan_idaho can squat 225 one-legged.
Now, I
was a pitcher, and as such focused a lot on making my legs strong because I wanted to throw hard. And I have always casually maintained that. So I am probably above the bell curve on what the average dude in his early 40s who is a casual workout person can do.
But still. Saying Simmons has already squatted 225 is a hilarious thing to even include. (Which an editor would catch, but it's a tweet).
This hits on one of the issues with this Simmons situation and injury. You can do scans and see that things are clean and scar tissue isn't an issue, and the joint is healthy and all that stuff.
But you can't truly measure max explosion, strength, twitch (the things that separate fringe guys from bench guys and bench guys from starters and starters from stars) for an offensive lineman until you can see what Simmons' new max squat is.
Till you see him wrestling with other 300 pound dudes in full pads.
Till you see how the knee/leg react when it plants and immediately has to bear the brunt of 600+ pounds of impact, or until you see how it reacts when it plants and has to shoot Simmons' 300 pounds back inside because the E is going across his face after getting beat to the corner.
History tells us that no one has EVER made a complete recovery to what they were before, and that only about 20 percent of guys come close.
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Originally Posted by RunKC
I found this study from Reddit in regards to patella injuries. This is pretty damn bleak.
-study was from 2009-2022
-Just over half of all players who have this injury came back to play even one game
-Only 16% came back to start as many games within 2 seasons of their injury as they did 1 season before injury.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11806464/
Seems like an unnecessary risk based on desperation when you see the numbers |
Yeah. I started digging into that stuff about two months ago. It gets worse and worse and worse the more you look. I guess I was just a tad early to that party.