Garrett praises progress, toughness of TE Rico Gathers

[Hardline]

http://dal.247sports.com/Bolt/Jason-Garrett-praises-progress-toughness-of-TE-Rico-Gathers-106975207

 

[Setackin]

"You can hit him in the face with a shovel and he keeps coming back"

Soooo explain to me why he could start the season on IR. He literally got hit in the face, and DIDNT keep going...

 

[links18]

If he is so tough and has progressed so much why the hell are they IRing him?

 

[DallasInDC]

If Garrett doesn't watch out, the league will begin investigating whether or not we attempted to manipulate the roster with a fake injury move to the IR.

 

[CowboyStar88]

This should be good lol

 

[robjay04]

If he is so tough and has progressed so much why the hell are they IRing him?

 

[Reality]

"You can hit him in the face with a shovel and he keeps coming back"

Soooo explain to me why he could start the season on IR. He literally got hit in the face, and DIDNT keep going...

Indeed!

 

[Manwiththeplan]

"You can hit him in the face with a shovel and he keeps coming back"

Soooo explain to me why he could start the season on IR. He literally got hit in the face, and DIDNT keep going...

actually pretty funny considering the circumstances. poor figure of speech for him to use.

 

[conner01]

If Garrett doesn't watch out, the league will begin investigating whether or not we attempted to manipulate the roster with a fake injury move to the IR.

Doesn't the league have docs that do the concussion protocol? Or is it just team docs
Seems like I read somewhere the leagues people do that

 

[Yakuza Rich]

If Garrett doesn't watch out, the league will begin investigating whether or not we attempted to manipulate the roster with a fake injury move to the IR.

While I wouldn't put anything past the league, it would the be the dumbest decision in the world to investigate a team for putting a player on IR for a concussion in today's climate. That's something you just don't touch these days.






YR

 

[links18]

While I wouldn't put anything past the league, it would the be the dumbest decision in the world to investigate a team for putting a player on IR for a concussion in today's climate. That's something you just don't touch these days.






YR

Its a pretty blatant manipulation move, but the question is why?

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Its a pretty blatant manipulation move, but the question is why?

They don't think he's ready and they have Swaim and Hanna who are ready to fill their roles (mostly blocking). That means carrying 4 TE's, so they would rather carry 3 TE's. I don't like the decision, but I understand what they are thinking.




YR

 

[DallasInDC]

While I wouldn't put anything past the league, it would the be the dumbest decision in the world to investigate a team for putting a player on IR for a concussion in today's climate. That's something you just don't touch these days.






YR

under normal leadership it would be wise not to touch it; however, this is Goodell we are talking about here. He has proven not to be very smart in his approach to these type of things.

 

[gimmesix]

"You can hit him in the face with a shovel and he keeps coming back"

Soooo explain to me why he could start the season on IR. He literally got hit in the face, and DIDNT keep going...

Apparently his face is harder than his head.

 

[TheCount]

Whoa, I thought Rico was on life support from the worst concussion in sporting history. Good to hear he's going to pull through.

 

[Stash]

If Garrett doesn't watch out, the league will begin investigating whether or not we attempted to manipulate the roster with a fake injury move to the IR.

I think that there's little doubt that's exactly what the team did. But because it's a concussion, there won't possibly be a challenge to its validity. While some injuries might eventually be questioned (and I expect that they will be), nobody will think about questioning a concussion or brain injury.

 

[Proof]

What Rico does and what the team does to protect him are separate issues entirely

 

[Cowboysfan1975]

If Garrett doesn't watch out, the league will begin investigating whether or not we attempted to manipulate the roster with a fake injury move to the IR.

Let the league try to question a guy that had a concussion. That would be a professional death wish by anyone in the NFL front office connected with it!

 

[Manwiththeplan]

Let the league try to question a guy that had a concussion. That would be a professional death wish by anyone in the NFL front office connected with it!

I don't know, I mean the HC says you can hit the guy with a shovel in the face and he keeps coming, days after putting him on IR for in essence getting hit with a shovel in the face. Something doesn't add up.

 

[jday]

http://dal.247sports.com/Bolt/Jason-Garrett-praises-progress-toughness-of-TE-Rico-Gathers-106975207

I just can't help but think he's another TE in a long line of TE's added after Witten whose talents will largely go unutilized. I really hope they prove me wrong, though.

That said, they are loaded at the skill position, so he's sprinkles, on the icing, on the cake, with ice cream.