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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
God almighty, it's like you haven't read a thing over the last 2 months.
You know what we have access to right now? Two things, one rearward facing and one a snapshot.
1) The history of patella injuries says MAYBE 1 in 5 of them come back anywhere near the level they were at
2) Right now, this very second, Josh Simmons is doing squats that demonstrate he's essentially putting NO pressure on his left leg in his strength exercises.
So WHAT can that possibly tell us? What can 'the medicals' possibly show here that demonstrate ANYTHING? If they're silky smooth - no scar tissue and as clean as they can possibly be -- he's STILL only squatting 225 lbs (essentially a one-legged squat) so that 'healthy' knee isn't capable of demonstrating any sort of strength or legitimate explosion right now.
And we see it all the time with injuries. "Structurally sound" pitchers who's surgeries were complete successes and who's MRIs are completely clean just throw 6 mph slower than they used to. RBs and WRs who's imaging comes back spotless simply cannot cut and drive off the leg like they once did.
"Healthy" doens't mean "recovered"
And you cannot -- absolutely CANNOT -- determine recovered in any way a mere 6 mos after the injury. There is nothing at all the medicals can tell us apart from the fact that the surgery didn't fail.
So what? 90% of these surgeries don't fail and the player in question STILL doesn't make it all the way back.
It's reckless to the point of stupid to just handwaive everything we do know in favor of the idea that Brett Veach and/or the team doctors have some sort of prescience that allows them to just know that Josh Simmons will eventually beat the odds. Because prescience is what it will take -- there is zero way to know that with any degree of certainty right now.
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The patellar tendon tear seems to be to NFL and NBA athletes what thoracic outlet surgery is to a baseball pitcher/player. They can get healthy again, but they never have the same throwing power again.