Dlaw 4-6 month recovery time

NorthwestDallas40 · Apr 8, 2019

Let’s not overreact. D Law played with his “torn labrum” all last year. While his shoulder may take some time to get to 100%, it’s not like this is a knee injury that would affect his ability to run, cut, anchor, and push. Which is 90 percent of pass rushing and run defending. The big thing is how long it will take him to start doing upper body weightlifting. If he is able to do that at least a month before the season, his strength should be fine and he can play with a harness, if necessary, to protect the shoulder for the first few games. I don’t see him missing game action.

pacy · Apr 8, 2019

jazzcat22 said:
NFLN just now said 3 month at least. Most I seen was 4 to 6 weeks after surgery, then 4 to 6 weeks for it to gain strength. I do not see it being 6 months. But then again, recovery time for this team does seem to always be longer.

Like them recovering from a Super Bowl win?

Jimbo69 · Apr 8, 2019

Any time missed at the start of the season is 100% down to Lawrence. It will detract from the Cowboys season and cause unwarranted headaches for the team. This was totally preventable. Very disappointing.
Let's hope what's left of our pass rush get through camp or our defence will have a very difficult start to the season.

zerofill · Apr 8, 2019

I doubt he will miss games... But I also doubt that arm will be as strong as it was for awhile. I mean how much weight room time will he have with that before the season starts?
Probably get a PED suspension again, trying to speed it up with our luck lol.

Vinnie2u · Apr 8, 2019

He Played all year last year with the injury. I don’t blame him one bit for using it as leverage. He obviously wanted to stay here and get his money.

jrumann59 · Apr 8, 2019

depends on how bad a tear and if its SLAP tear. SLAP Tear is worst case scenario. Regular tear with Arthroscope is about 4 week recovery open repair which is most likely is 6 weeks, open allows for a more solid attachment.

MarcusRock · Apr 8, 2019

pacboyX said:
So give him no credit for playing with the shoulder injury? They are quick to say this is a business, but once players treat it like a business we get mad at them? We could say the front office put 2019 in jeopardy by not singing him. Dont be so quick to attack players when we know the front office and the whole NFL schemes players heavy.

This is where it's at for me. The ugliest moment in Cowboys fandom I remember is when we cut Ware. Leading up to the cut, it was all about "he did well for us but it's business." But as soon as Ware signed a very good deal in a hot minute with Denver, some fans turned on him saying he was never good enough, was a bum, etc. with one idiot accusing him of being a PED cheat, lol. Just proves that players getting paid drums up the lack in some that then needs explaining away to protect the ego. In negotiations, you use what you got. How many here were urging management to play hardball with DLaw or trade him? The "never over $20 million/year" crowd is having a tough go of it and are grasping at the predictable "moral failures" for why DLaw won this battle.

visionary · Apr 8, 2019

Stupid teams do stupid stuff

Idgit · Apr 8, 2019

LowTech said:
He may not, but when will he be 100%

He played with it the last two years. And the recovery time we've been hearing up until now has been 6-8 weeks, minimum. I think they'll give him really light work in camp and preseason, and ramp up at the end. But he'll play from week 1 and should really be feeling better than he has in recent years with the repair done.

Just like the article says he was never going to miss any time, they obviously weren't going to have a timeline where he didn't have time to adequately heal prior to the season and have it hurt his production going into a huge contract year. The fact that they got things done on this timeline means that he and his agent know they have time for him to get healthy before week 1.

erod · Apr 8, 2019

NorthwestDallas40 said:
Let’s not overreact. D Law played with his “torn labrum” all last year. While his shoulder may take some time to get to 100%, it’s not like this is a knee injury that would affect his ability to run, cut, anchor, and push. Which is 90 percent of pass rushing and run defending. The big thing is how long it will take him to start doing upper body weightlifting. If he is able to do that at least a month before the season, his strength should be fine and he can play with a harness, if necessary, to protect the shoulder for the first few games. I don’t see him missing game action.

Shoulder surgery is one of the hardest to rehab. It's excruciating.

And if the cuff is involved, it could be much longer than 6 months.

Should know more this week after the surgery.

blueblood70 · Apr 8, 2019

first off none of us know Dlaws recovery , he played pretty well with it busted all year, secondly the extent wont be known until after surgery and lastly I feel he will do everything possible to start game 1 and I believe he will get it done..this is why fans are furious though him not getting surgey within weeks of the season ending was bad move..

John813 · Apr 8, 2019

jrumann59 said:
depends on how bad a tear and if its SLAP tear. SLAP Tear is worst case scenario. Regular tear with Arthroscope is about 4 week recovery open repair which is most likely is 6 weeks, open allows for a more solid attachment.

I had a slap tear. Definitely was something you could live with if you didn't play sports/lift weights, but could notice something was wrong when repping weights.

Sucked recovering from during high school/football standpoint. Bunch of rehab.

atlantacowboy · Apr 8, 2019

ItzKelz said:
I felt the same way about Tank a couple of years ago.

You think lightening will strike twice?

BigD_95 · Apr 8, 2019

Money well spent :lmao:

cheftjpeck · Apr 8, 2019

Let’s just hope in all seriousness he doesnt take anything or use any ointments / lotions or oils that are on banned list in his recovery

jnday · Apr 8, 2019

Vanilla2 said:
Some folks have been trained to side with management no matter the subject.

I’m sure 90 will be back in time, but is this the same issue Isaiah Stanback had back in the day?

Didn’t he have surgery and have issues with the shoulder still popping out? Or did not ever have the surgery.

The management is right most of the time. A lot of these players are spoiled, entitled, jerks that thinks the world revolves around them. They are nothing more than employees and they should be treated as such.

conner01 · Apr 8, 2019

glimmerman said:
Basically preseason will be his training camp. I don’t think he will be 100% by season starts.

I don’t expect him till October
I read a study of nfl players and the avg was 8.6 months. Some of that was having surgery right after the season and sitting out training camp so it was longer than maybe needed
Me or you would have quick recovery because we don’t wrestle 300 lb men for a living but I suspect some of the timelines for recovery or more about an avg person, not a football player
Some players recover from injuries pretty fast but most don’t

Beaker42 · Apr 8, 2019

Gremell12 said:
Man, thats longer than i had hoped for....

Didn’t some numbnuts on here say it was a 4-6 WEEK recovery for this surgery? We should’ve used the $$ on Ansah and cut this clown. He’s gonna miss 8 games min.

glimmerman · Apr 8, 2019

conner01 said:
I don’t expect him till October
I read a study of nfl players and the avg was 8.6 months. Some of that was having surgery right after the season and sitting out training camp so it was longer than maybe needed
Me or you would have quick recovery because we don’t wrestle 300 lb men for a living but I suspect some of the timelines for recovery or more about an avg person, not a football player
Some players recover from injuries pretty fast but most don’t

Yeah I agree. It’s one thing to be healed up but another to have the shoulder strengthened and then another to be in football shape and at the top of his game.. It’s gonna be interesting to see how he plays now that he is paid.,,

Beaker42 · Apr 8, 2019

Sydla said:
Who said anything about not giving him credit?

And let's note, I think part of the reason he played with it was because he decided against having surgery last year when he could have fixed it then.

The Cowboys signed him well before more tagged players get signed so I don't really blame them here at all. In fact, they likely buckled to Lawrence's ploy because they had a calendar just like us and realized they were putting part of the 2019 season in jeopardy.

Which has happened.

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