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RB Saquon Barkley, PHI (3 Viewers)
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The Frankman
Footballguy
Already off the boot after a week.
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rockaction
Footballguy
The young man should wear the boot and get well. Giants aren't going anywhere with that secondary, really.
Interseptopus
Footballguy
people in here over react to a high ankle sprain. I have to hope it's because they don't understand what it actually is. The docs give a time table because they have to. However, the healing portion is done at 2 weeks for the vast majority of soft tissue injuries, so any time missed beyond that is a range of motion, strength, pain/swelling thing.
Interseptopus
Footballguy
this is actually a good thing for him to get well. walking boots are not your friend (unless you are friends with Walking Boot lol)
kutta
Footballguy
Not a chance. He got hurt. It happens.
Now that the Giants actually have a competent QB, I’m holding on tight to Barkley.
Ray Barboni
Footballguy
kittenmittens
Footballguy
I bought in one league for a fair price and was rebuffed without counter in all others.
Mike Evans plus James Conner and a 2nd got rejected.
Diggs plus Mack plus a 2nd was rejected.
Chubb plus Fuller plus Teddy B was accepted.
All leagues are superflex
jm192
Footballguy
For their team, not Barkley. I'm sure if a lot of people are 1-3 or 0-4 they're looking more to the future, but I would think there are some that still like their team enough to try to go for it this year.
tackle for loss
Footballguy
I'll say it and say it, the fact 8 weeks was ever mentioned for a HAS was and continues to be laughable.
Its always been a 4-6 week timetable with 6 being extreme, but why was it a 4-8 with the risk of people saying IR and return date after a bye? No way a guy already jogging had an injury so severe after two tests was that even a possibility.
He may make it back for the Detroit game. Arizona would be pushing it.
That was just a bad report put out by Schefter. .
Interseptopus
Footballguy
but but but... high ankle sprain
Glad to have a platform like this where you can get alternative opinions rather than just trusting one source.
Glad to have a platform like this where you can get alternative opinions rather than just trusting one source.
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The Frankman
Footballguy
It's more his freakish recovery ability. As it has already been said, he's had a similar timeline where he beat it early.
FreeBaGeL
Footballguy
As a Barkley owner that suffered from chronic ankle sprains throughout my career I would rather him just take the extra time and make sure that ankle is completely healed. Rushing back on a HAS is a great way to turn a one-off injury into a chronic problem, and Barkley is very dependent on his ankles.
Maybe it really wasn't a high ankle sprain to begin with.
Gotta think this GM is very, very eager to see his prized QB draft pick on the field with a full compliment of WRs (including G. Tate), Engram, and of course, S. Barkley.
Sooner rather than later to get the fan base excited.
The Big Donkey
Footballguy
mphtrilogy
Footballguy
this is very good news, hold him out one more week then back to business
As a Barkley owner who somehow finds myself sitting at 3-1 without him for the last 2 games, I was really hoping he wouldn't try to push to hard to come back sooner than when his ankle is fully healed. The injury didn't look horrible, but I was convinced he'd be out for at least 4 weeks. Maybe he's just superhuman though.
shadyridr
Footballguy
They play Thursday next week so I think he misses two more games and then faces Arizona.
The Frankman
Footballguy
This. I actually think they might just hold him out the next week too so he could hit the minimum of his projection.
tackle for loss
Footballguy
We have to stop assuming all humans heal the same way. He is a freak of nature. We have to stop assuming teams play safe with players in a what have you done for me lately league.
With all dude respect, thats now how it works and its not how it has worked in quite some time. There is one team like that, they are the Packers.
I hurt my ankle and it takes me 2 weeks to walks right, and I am not a world class athlete. I was running after 4 weeks and it was pretty severe with a trip to ER and all as I thought it was broke. Athletes with top notch doctors and boots and technology and all those things are not normal. Yet here we are in this thread, people opinions were after the bye.
I encourage everyone to look back and see who said that stuff and ignore them on all thing injury related from now on. In a video it shows barkley dancing at the end of it. He is fine and he is back, he will play against NE. Why sit him for 10 more days if he is able to run and cut in uniform? Makes no sense. I think its better than 50/50 he might play this week.
Like Shumer said, his doctors are not here on the internet playing safe. Again, he was dancing in the video after running and cutting. They gonna sit him cuz why? They are 2-2.
With all dude respect, thats now how it works and its not how it has worked in quite some time. There is one team like that, they are the Packers.
I hurt my ankle and it takes me 2 weeks to walks right, and I am not a world class athlete. I was running after 4 weeks and it was pretty severe with a trip to ER and all as I thought it was broke. Athletes with top notch doctors and boots and technology and all those things are not normal. Yet here we are in this thread, people opinions were after the bye.
I encourage everyone to look back and see who said that stuff and ignore them on all thing injury related from now on. In a video it shows barkley dancing at the end of it. He is fine and he is back, he will play against NE. Why sit him for 10 more days if he is able to run and cut in uniform? Makes no sense. I think its better than 50/50 he might play this week.
Like Shumer said, his doctors are not here on the internet playing safe. Again, he was dancing in the video after running and cutting. They gonna sit him cuz why? They are 2-2.
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The Frankman
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I feel so bad for the dude who drafted him first overall in my league... and traded him for Sony Michel, thinking he'd be out 6-8 weeks (rest of the fantasy regular season).
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Soulfly3
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tackle for loss
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Ray Barboni
Footballguy
Yea ... that guy deserves what he got. I was able to work a package deal, giving Saquon and getting Dalvin.
But backed out because I managed to keep winning.
Now that he seems to be ahead of schedule, I’m holding.
Interseptopus
Footballguy
I could care less what projections a team would give. it's all a mute point when all injuries are different. If you're waiting with baited breath for whats said on twitter you're doing it wrong.
Everyone looks for the escape goat when guys dont come back soon enough, so I think teams just over estimate injury returns. For all intensive purposes these timelines are buy in large wrong anyways, I dont know why so many people are surprised when a guy comes back sooner. this all leads to a damp squid in the end. We would all have piece of mind if we just nipped this in the butt.
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Interseptopus
Footballguy
tackle for loss
Footballguy
I play in a what we call the "dude league." It came up as auto sentence fill cause thats how I kick off some of my commish statements and I didnt catch it here.
Thats how it started ironically, it was something we said in high school to a teacher we had. Its crazy what kick starts and how sayings start.
Jeff Spicoli would appreciate, "with all dude respect."
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tackle for loss
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habsfan
Footballguy
Similar story in my league - literally insult to injury.
That owner in my redraft league was 0-4 and promptly put him up for trade to the highest bidder in a total vacuum of information. Fast forward to this news and he had held, he could still easily be 0-6 before Barkley returns (if the ARI prediction holds up). Typically you're all but mathematically eliminated with seven losses in this league.
Injuries like this to players like this instantly create a buy on rumour, sell on fact scenario. Even if the Barkley owner read this correctly and strongly believed he would return more quickly, it doesn't really matter what he believed. It's what the rest of the league believes that sets the market.
tackle for loss
Footballguy
The funniest thing to me in this thread are the people so sure he would be back after the bye. Other people so sure that teams wont rush back their star, instead the coach again says they want to rush him back as quick as possible.
Every team not named the Packers, wants the person they pay millions on the field. Its a rule in fantasy start understanding it instead of panicking about it.
The guy was dancing yesterday after running and cutting? Why would they hold him out this week if he is doing everything he needs to? Is he like Darnold, can his spleen rupture? No, if he can run he can play. Period. Its football, people play hurt if they are able to do the job. The video showed he can cut better than any healthy guy on here right now.
Every team not named the Packers, wants the person they pay millions on the field. Its a rule in fantasy start understanding it instead of panicking about it.
The guy was dancing yesterday after running and cutting? Why would they hold him out this week if he is doing everything he needs to? Is he like Darnold, can his spleen rupture? No, if he can run he can play. Period. Its football, people play hurt if they are able to do the job. The video showed he can cut better than any healthy guy on here right now.
tackle for loss
Footballguy
Watched all the clips.
If he had a HAS and he's moving around like that already...simply amazing.
And Shurmur isn't backing off. I find that surprising.
I will now be shocked if he's not on the field week 6.
I thought real hard about selling him and Kittle for CMC and Dissly in my dynasty league.....conventional wisdom seems to be that's crazy. However, I'm in total win now mode, 40% of prize money goes to most points on the year, and I think Dissly just may be the next Kittle. That said, I'm kinda glad I didn't at this point.
If he is running like that he did not tear ligaments - that takes months and surgery to heal. I actually do know that story - it took me 8 months.
If he got tweaked the same way again it would probably hurt like hell but that's about it. That said - do defenders target the ankle and twist it while tackling?
I suspect that is one of the unspoken rules to not do or we would see lots of broken fingers and what not?
Wrigley
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