Washington Post: Jason Taylor Almost Had Leg Amputated If He Waited..

[Pick6TerenceNewman]

Doctors told Jason Taylor that he "would be done forever" if he hadn't undergone Monday's emergency calf surgery.

Taylor was at risk of amputation had he waited longer due to nerve damage and "tissue necropsy." The surgery has him out indefinitely with no timetable for return. "Nobody knows when the body is going to respond," he said.
Source: Washington Post (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/2008/09/jason_taylor_could_have_died_f.html?nav=rss_blog)


Don't know much about this injury but I can see that Taylor won't be much help this year for Washington and his career is on the done side.

[theebs]

wow.

That came out of left field. I thought it was something minor.

[Pick6TerenceNewman]

wow.

That came out of left field. I thought it was something minor.


I guess blood pooled at the injury site, causing immflammation.

[Sam I Am]

Sapp being get off that stupid show ASAP. :cool:

[DallasEast]

I feel bad for Taylor, but not so much for the Redskins. Wait a sec. I don't feel anything for the Redskins. I'm cured!!!

[bbgun]

Wow. I had no idea it was that serious.

[WoodysGirl]

Wow. I had no idea it was that serious.
Really? You being in DC, I thought you knew. I read almost immediately that he'd gone to the hospital to have surgery to drain blood from his leg.

[dargonking999]

Sounds like it was something minor, that ended up turning into something major, that almost cost him a leg. Sucks for the redskins

[bbgun]

Really? You being in DC, I thought you knew. I read almost immediately that he'd gone to the hospital to have surgery to drain blood from his leg.

I lead a very sheltered life. Don't listen to the local chat shows, either.

[AbeBeta]

Wow. Some idiot on the board the other called him out for missing the game.

I hate the Skins but Taylor is a great player and a good person. Horrible outcome.

[NextGenBoys]

The Redskins seriously need to stop trading for players. It never works out.

This is a horrible outcome to a freak incident, but still. If you're a successful vet and you get traded to the Redskins, game over.

[Sam I Am]

The Redskins seriously need to stop trading for players. It never works out.

This is a horrible outcome to a freak incident, but still. If you're a successful vet and you get traded to the Redskins, game over.

No, you're completely wrong. They should keep trading.

[DallasEast]

Wow. Some idiot on the board the other called him out for missing the game.

I hate the Skins but Taylor is a great player and a good person. Horrible outcome.
So, he's supposed to play the season on one good leg?

Redskin fans are getting very desperate if they're sinking that low.

[WoodysGirl]

I lead a very sheltered life. Don't listen to the local chat shows, either.I somehow find that hard to believe, but I'll take your word for it. :)

Wow. Some idiot on the board the other called him out for missing the game.

I hate the Skins but Taylor is a great player and a good person. Horrible outcome.I didn't get the jokes about Taylor either, but I assumed they must not've known.

Taylor Said He 'Could Have Been Done' (Updated)
Jason Taylor just informed us that the surgery he had to relieve a blood mass in his left calf Monday morning was of critical importance. Taylor is on crutches with his left calf wrapped, and said that, at the time the emergency surgery was performed, he was told by doctors that with any further delay "you would be done forever." Taylor said at the time the surgery was performed he was told he could have lost his foot. Waiting beyond that could have produced even more dire results.

"I was a little scared about that, and didn't quite understand why it had to be done so suddenly, and wanted to wait," Taylor said. "I actually wanted to wait till the sun came up ... But they kept stressing how important it was to get it done right away."

Taylor said he was told to sleep as much as possible and stay off his feet, with no timetable for a recovery. The injury, which Jim Zorn described Monday as "compartment syndrome," could have caused nerve damage and tissue necropsy and, if untreated, even death. He said he could miss from anywhere from a week to several months as his body heals. Taylor was kicked in the calf in the second quarter of the Redskins' victory Sunday. On Monday, Zorn said he had looked at game tape and no one was certain when the injury occurred.

Taylor had wanted to allow his body to heal more and hoped to delay the procedure until later in the day. The hospital got Redskins surgeon James Andrews on the phone at 5 a.m. and Andrews told them to put down the phone immediately and perform surgery.

"I still was a hard head," Taylor said. "Sometimes the things that make you good could be your demise, too. I was a hard head. I didn't want to do it. I wanted to wait. I wanted to let God try to heal it up some. Sometimes, I guess you've got to help Him out.

"It needed to be done immediately. I wanted to wait a couple of hours. They said, 'You don't have a couple of hours. We should have did it an hour ago.' It was one of those things where time's of the essence and we need to hurry up and do this right away."

As for his recovery, Taylor said, "Everyday it's getting a little better." As for his return to the football field: "Nobody knows when the body is going to respond, because everybody is different. It could be a week and it could be a couple of months."

[Boysboy]

The Redskins seriously need to stop trading for players. It never works out.

This is a horrible outcome to a freak incident, but still. If you're a successful vet and you get traded to the Redskins, game over.

With their 3 2nd round picks bunched up together, they had a stud pass rusher, Calais Campbell, in their laps. But instead, they chose 2 WRs and a TE, when they already have Moss, ARE, Cooley, and Yoder.

[DallasEast]

No, you're completely wrong. They should keep trading.
+1

Yes, Daniel Snyder should be allowed to continue doing things his way. What would it hurt? For the rest of the league, that is?

[NextGenBoys]

With their 3 2nd round picks bunched up together, they had a stud pass rusher, Calais Campbell, in their laps. But instead, they chose 2 WRs and a TE, when they already have Moss, ARE, Cooley, and Yoder.

And then on the other side of the spectrum, the Jags traded up in the 1st and 2nd round to grab pass rushers, when they could have had Jason Taylor for a 2nd.

Dont understand the logic of either team.

[gambit187]

Sapp being get off that stupid show ASAP. :cool:

Dont worry I think Sapp is safe, beside I dont see him unretiring and coming to play for the Skins. Thats the curse right there, come to the skins.....never make pro bowl while your with them and then get hurt constantly

:starspin

[Pabst]

So the 'Skins got, what, 2 1/2 games for their second rounder? They really have some bad luck. But they position themselves to have bad luck, so they can only blame themselves, I suppose.

Hope Taylor has a quick recovery. He's a class act.

[2much2soon]

Hope Taylor has a quick recovery. He's a class act.

And he is Zach Thomas' brother-in-law, IIRC...

[LeonDixson]

I hope he doesn't already have nerve damage in the leg that won't heal.

[McCordsville Cowboy]

Yikes.......

That would have given Heather Mills a leg up in the competition last year....

Jason would have gotten "Serve'd"

[AbeBeta]

So, he's supposed to play the season on one good leg?

Redskin fans are getting very desperate if they're sinking that low.

Sadly, it was one of OUR fans that made that stupid comment.

[Asklesko]

The Skins have no luck with players whose last name is Taylor, do they?

[SteveOS]

And he is Zach Thomas' brother-in-law, IIRC...

I thought Taylor had a divorce a while back and Zach is no longer a brother in law? Guess I missed the boat.

Hopefully Taylor can play again, very odd injury.

[AbeBeta]

I didn't get the jokes about Taylor either, but I assumed they must not've known.

Some folks are just looking for an excuse ... I'll say no more.

[zeromaster]

Sapp being get off that stupid show ASAP. :cool:
I almost understood this. Is that bad? :D

[BraveHeartFan]

Wow that sucks. I hate to hear that it's something quite that serious.

[DallasEast]

Sadly, it was one of OUR fans that made that stupid comment.
:bang2:

[BrAinPaiNt]

That is really bad news for Taylor.

I just thought it was a routine thing with his leg like simple bruising or something and they were just keeping out of a game or two as precaution and to let it heal.

Did not realize it was something that serious.

Hope he has a quick recovery. Seems like a pretty good guy.

[Burgundy&Gold]

So the 'Skins got, what, 2 1/2 games for their second rounder? They really have some bad luck. But they position themselves to have bad luck, so they can only blame themselves, I suppose.

Hope Taylor has a quick recovery. He's a class act.

I have been as critical as anyone with how we throw away draft picks and overspend for players in the past but this just isn't the case with Taylor.

We lost Phillip Daniels for the season on the first day of camp as well as his backup. We were in a tight spot. A second rounder for Jason Taylor, even at this point of his career, is not unreasonable.

The front office has actually gotten a lot better in this regard in the last couple of years. Should we have not taken 2 WR's and a TE with our top 3 picks? Fair criticism. I really wish we would draft more lineman but this has been going on for many years.

Anyway, I hope he is alright. I am still in shock reading that he almost had his leg amputated.

[CrazyCowboy]

wow....what was he thinking.

[DallasEast]

I have been as critical as anyone with how we throw away draft picks and overspend for players in the past but this just isn't the case with Taylor.

We lost Phillip Daniels for the season on the first day of camp as well as his backup. We were in a tight spot. A second rounder for Jason Taylor, even at this point of his career, is not unreasonable.

The front office has actually gotten a lot better in this regard in the last couple of years. Should we have not taken 2 WR's and a TE with our top 3 picks? Fair criticism. I really wish we would draft more lineman but this has been going on for many years.

Anyway, I hope he is alright. I am still in shock reading that he almost had his leg amputated.
I think that he's referring more to the lack of drafting and emphasis for free agent wheeling and dealing during the Daniel Snyder era than just this offseason.

[Joe Rod]

Get better JT, just remember to play like crap against the Cowboys!

[InmanRoshi]

Take a soon to be 34 year old player, who is extremely undersized for his position, who spent the entire offseason dressing up in spandex and sequins and doing the cha-cha with D list celebrities instead of getting his body prepared for the football season and stick him on the freaking STRONG SIDE and sit back and watch in amazement as his body breaks down and call it a fluke injury (not to be confused with his fluke injury that almost got him in the preseason).

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

[superpunk]

Cap hell. It is real. And it has been in Washington for years now. It's just too bad they didn't extend him before his career threatening injury. Or did they?

[EPL0c0]

Wow, that's insane.

Even if he is a Redskin, hope he makes it through ok and gets healed up.

[Thick 'N Hearty]

Sounds like he had a blood clot that cut off the circulation and the tissue/muscle just started to die. But, if that was the case, there should've been symptoms a lot earlier.

[Cowboy Bill Watts]

Doctors told Jason Taylor that he "would be done forever" if he hadn't undergone Monday's emergency calf surgery.

Taylor was at risk of amputation had he waited longer due to nerve damage and "tissue necropsy." The surgery has him out indefinitely with no timetable for return. "Nobody knows when the body is going to respond," he said.
Source: Washington Post (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/2008/09/jason_taylor_could_have_died_f.html?nav=rss_blog)


Don't know much about this injury but I can see that Taylor won't be much help this year for Washington and his career is on the done side.


i do hate this. i wish him the best...

[Naes]

Freak injuries can happen to anyone at any time. The guy has played in 133 straight games and people think it was a risky trade. Pretty silly.

He'll be back and ready to go in a week or two.

[superpunk]

Freak injuries can happen to anyone at any time. The guy has played in 133 straight games and people think it was a risky trade. Pretty silly.

He'll be back and ready to go in a week or two.
It is a risky trade precisely because he has played in 133 straight games, because he's on the wrong side of 30, and because it was a trade for a player with a large salary, with all those attributes working against him, who decided that a dancing show was adequate preparation for the rigors of an NFL season.

There are any number of reasons why it was a stupid, risky trade based on the desperate reaction of a franchise that couldn't handle an injury to the magnificent Phillip Daniels. That's been borne out thus far.

[BAT]

It was a freak accident.


As much as we dislike Snyder (and the 'Skins), it was a very good trade, at the time.

[Shady12]

Same thing happened to former Dallas Star Bill Guerin several years ago..Except I think it was his thigh..he ended up playing again at a high level..but was younger at the time.

[Nexx]

holy crap!! im making the call now.. Taylor is done!!

[needforspeed]

The Redskins seriously need to stop trading for players. It never works out.

This is a horrible outcome to a freak incident, but still. If you're a successful vet and you get traded to the Redskins, game over.

Interesting avatar. You from the Hawkeye state?

[Nexx]

Same thing happened to former Dallas Star Bill Guerin several years ago..Except I think it was his thigh..he ended up playing again at a high level..but was younger at the time.

and it took him months to get back to just play. he didnt get back to full strength until the next season.

[Eskimo]

My best guess is he developed severe swelling from the initial injury that raised the tissue pressure so high that blood flow into the leg was prevented. It is called a compartment syndrome and is not uncommon in the calf and the forearm due to the abundant connective tissue in these areas of the body.

The treatment is basically to put an incision in the skin and connective tissue to allow circulation to resume.

If any tissue has died, you remove that at the time of the surgery.

Once swelling has died down, you close everything back up.

My guess is he'll be out of action for a very long time to allow the healing to occur.

One thing about this condition is it is extraordinarily painful - way worse than a broken bone or dislocated joint.

It has been alluded to, but I don't think this injury has anything to do with lack of preparation for the football season. It is just very bad luck to get that type of swelling after a soft issue injury. I have seen this before but usually in association with fractures in the forearm or calf.

[SkinsHokieFan]

This happened to a buddy of mine who played semipro football during the summer of 2007, except it was in his thigh

Doctors told him the same thing, you wait your leg MAY be amputated. So lets get this show on the road

It took him about 6 weeks to get back to full strength.

We'll see how Taylor's body responds. As he said, it could be a week, or could be months

[DaBoys4Life]

Wow. Some idiot on the board the other called him out for missing the game.

I hate the Skins but Taylor is a great player and a good person. Horrible outcome.

I don't wish injury on anyone however didn't Taylor rip up a sign that a cowboy fan was holding......

[Dumbsheet]

With their 3 2nd round picks bunched up together, they had a stud pass rusher, Calais Campbell, in their laps. But instead, they chose 2 WRs and a TE, when they already have Moss, ARE, Cooley, and Yoder.

Not to mention those three 2nd round picks have been total BUSTS so far. While we're getting true star power from Felix Jones, i think their top three picks have a total of one catch for like 5 yards so far. :lmao:

Oh, and a one legged Taylor is still better than any other pass rusher the skynryds got, so i'd expect him back before too long.

[Scotman]

The Skins have no luck with players whose last name is Taylor, do they?

Did you really mean that as callous as it sounds?



Too bad for Taylor. I hope he will be all right. Hate to see a kid in jeopardy of losing his life or even his leg.

[PBJTime]

I've seen this before. It is a nasty open wound until they close everything back up.

I wish him the best.

[Thanos68]

Another great free agent pickup for the Redskins.. :lmao2:

[cowboys2233]

So, he's supposed to play the season on one good leg?

Redskin fans are getting very desperate if they're sinking that low.


This sounds more like sensationalistic crap from the doctor or Taylor himself.

Give me a break. For instance, if any part of your body becomes infected, you are at risk of losing the limb or even dying. But we have these things called antibiotics to prevent that from happening. And it's such a simple fix, that you don't hear many saying, "Man, if he had let that go longer, he was in danger of going into septic shock and dying."

Fine, he had blood pooling in his leg. So what? Simple procedure and I can almost guarantee he'll be back in 2-3 weeks.

[CanadianCowboysFan]

The thread title is a tad misleading.

Did he almost have it amputated or would it have been amputated if he waited.

[newlander]

Holy sheeet. That sucks. Hopefully he can come back this year: but I'd say it's a long shot. 8-12 week deal will they then put him on IR? Gonna need that roster spot.....

[joseephuss]

It was a freak accident.


As much as we dislike Snyder (and the 'Skins), it was a very good trade, at the time.

I do think Taylor is a good player and pass rusher. I Just didn't think it was a good trade for two reasons.

First the Skins weren't one player away from being a contender. They still have a few holes that they have to fill. Taylor's presence does not erase those holes or overcome them.

Second they likely won't have his services for more than two years. He may even be gone after one season. By then the Skins may have filled the other holes on their team, but they will then be without their pass rusher.

It can easily be compared to the trade that Dallas used to acquire Charles Haley. Haley became the final component for a team that was on the verge of playing for a championship. He also played in Dallas for 5 years.

[Nors]

Somewhere Parcells is saying - it's because you spent all that time on your tipee toes dancing in the offseason.

[Nors]

I do think Taylor is a good player and pass rusher. I Just didn't think it was a good trade for two reasons.

First the Skins weren't one player away from being a contender. They still have a few holes that they have to fill. Taylor's presence does not erase those holes or overcome them.

Second they likely won't have his services for more than two years. He may even be gone after one season. By then the Skins may have filled the other holes on their team, but they will then be without their pass rusher.

It can easily be compared to the trade that Dallas used to acquire Charles Haley. Haley became the final component for a team that was on the verge of playing for a championship. He also played in Dallas for 5 years.

Haley was 28/29 when we picked him up