Jaylon contract theory mentioned on The Fan

Listening to 105.3 The Fan, which carries the Cowboys games, Mike Bascik mentioned a disturbing theory that is apparently floating around.

The theory is that the reason Jaylon Smith approached Jerry now and accepted a discounted contract so willingly was because his knee is regressing, and he wanted to get paid now in case it's degenerating quickly.

I hope that's not true.

Yea I’m gonna pass on this tinfoil contract theory I just can’t buy that.

Don't think that's how it works.

CyberB0b said:

Don't think that's how it works.

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But it’s a cool story!

erod said:

Listening to 105.3 The Fan, which carries the Cowboys games, Mike Bascik mentioned a disturbing theory that is apparently floating around.

The theory is that the reason Jaylon Smith approached Jerry now and accepted a discounted contract so willingly was because his knee is regressing, and he wanted to get paid now in case it's degenerating quickly.

I hope that's not true.

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They let Leary go over something like this and they haven't found a proper replacement since.
I doubt Jerry gives money to guys that tell him he's about to go into gimptitude.

Possible Not Probable

Interesting theory, any evidence?

It wasn't a degenerative condition from what I remember. That was Myles jack.

But I'm no medical professional....curious if nerves can fire then go back.... the ligaments shouldn't be degenerative right?

I hate wild speculation.

So easy to start...and so hard to kill.

That was a discounted contract?

Highly doubtful since the Doc that knows the most about his condition is on staff. Jerry is no dummy, he’s not giving him that contract if this is even remotely true.

T-RO said:

I hate wild speculation.

So easy to start...and so hard to kill.

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Like a roach infestation.

Not that I believe this trash, but I gave it a like only because it will cause one or two seconds of anxiety or fear in all you homers out there who cannot exist if exactly everything is perfect.

Corso said:

They let Leary go over something like this and they haven't found a proper replacement since.
I doubt Jerry gives money to guys that tell him he's about to go into gimptitude.

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That's the point. Jaylon didn't tell him supposedly.

First of all, Jaylon took a small discount..so that really means nothing in the grand scheme of this thread

A degenerative knee condition has to be something that the team doctors would be aware of..this seems very unlikely..

erod said:

That's the point. Jaylon didn't tell him supposedly.

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Do you believe it?

Back in 2016 according to Dr. Dan Cooper, the issue wasn't degenerative. Smith's leg structurally healed, but there was a chance his nerve would not fire to 100% though he called the chances then "Very good" that it would.

As of last year his nerve had fully healed, there's no reason it'd go back the other way from what Cooper said then, so unless there's some odd new wrinkle that no one talked about yet, I'm not sure I buy this.

Smith's issues may be more mental than physical. He may need a few games to work the kinks out of how he's overcompensated in the past for the injury. He looked like he needed it last year too.

I'm an exec for a publisher and my company's finishing up publishing a book from a Sports Medicine mental health professional that's 250 pages of case studies and stories about just that thing. Sometimes the hardest thing with a sports injury is training the athletes out of bad habits they earn while injured, especially long term. It's not something that gets fixed overnight and there can be regression especially after off seasons. His book primarily deals with Soccer and the NBA, which he has worked in, but I imagine his stories have a lot of similar ones in the NFL.

BotchedLobotomy said:

Highly doubtful since the Doc that knows the most about his condition is on staff. Jerry is no dummy, he’s not giving him that contract if this is even remotely true.

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Extremely good point. If there was even a chance it could be degenerative, the doctor would've told Jerry.

If this is true Jerry is even dumber than we thought.

Does the training staff and team physicians that performed Jaylon's knee surgery keep secrets from Jerry. I think not.