Is Zach Martin practicing?

[NorthwestDallas40]

I have not heard whether he returned to practice yet this week. Anyone know?

 

[jwitten82]

If I tell you, then id have to kill you





Lol, I think he is

 

[jazzcat22]

All are supposed to be back at practice.

 

[erod]

He's going to play, but I heard he'll need extra padding.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

He has been called 100% by the coaches.

 

[BARRYRAY]

I think this was more serious than advertised but he is supposed to be back.Just shows everybody is a play away from retirement or disability.

 

[burmafrd]

I think this was more serious than advertised but he is supposed to be back.Just shows everybody is a play away from retirement or disability.

show me some EVIDENCE for your claim. Otherwise you are full of it.

 

[T-RO]

I think this was more serious than advertised but he is supposed to be back.Just shows everybody is a play away from retirement or disability.

It wasn't good. That injury can zap feeling and strength and is the kind of injury that can recur. That type of injury has sure ended some careers.

 

[erod]

Demarcus Ware severely declined because of these neck stingers.

Let's hope Martin's isn't like this. It shouldn't affect a guard as much as a pass rusher.

 

[Future]

show me some EVIDENCE for your claim. Otherwise you are full of it.

Ware, Demarcus.

 

[DallasEast]

August 20, 2015: http://www.dallascowboys.com/video/2015/08/20/zack-martin-updates-health-after-leaving-stinger#

In my purely unscientific and unconfirmable opinion, Martin will be completely fine.

 

[casmith07]

The only player I think we're going to be missing due to injury on Sunday night is Orlando Scandrick.

I also read online that the NY Giants are the most injured team in the league going back to 2013, and that they're "looking to repeat that trend to start 2015."

 

[ksadler1]

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The Dallas Cowboys approached the neck injury suffered by Pro Bowl right guard Zack Martin three weeks ago with a whole lot of caution, and it looks like it has paid off.
Martin suffered a stinger on August 18, in the first joint practice session with the St. Louis Rams. The second-year Notre Dame product attributed the injury to lowering his head while making a block, adding that this was the first such injury he had ever experienced.

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Around three weeks later Martin, who became the first Cowboys’ rookie to be named All-Pro since Calvin Hill in 1969 last year, is back at full health.
At least according to Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones, who gushed to 105.3-FM The Fan this week about the work Martin and the Cowboys’ training staff have done rehabbing the injury.
“We think he’s 100 percent,” Jones said, via the team’s official website. “We feel really good about the health of our team and I feel good about the conditioning that the guys are in."
Published at 2:15 PM CDT on Sep 8, 2015

 

[FLCowboyFan]

show me some EVIDENCE for your claim. Otherwise you are full of it.

An article this week said that he was wearing a neck roll for the first time since high school. That says they are concerned about it.

 

[DallasEast]

An article this week said that he was wearing a neck roll for the first time since high school. That says they are concerned about it.

That precaution suggests they wish to help prevent or reduce a reoccurrence of the injury but does it suggest they think Martin is susceptible to a similar injury that will result in disability or retirement? There's a significant difference.

 

[Idgit]

I think this was more serious than advertised but he is supposed to be back.Just shows everybody is a play away from retirement or disability.

Yeah, the team's been quiet about it, but I had an uneasy feeling about it, too, when they held him out so long for what was a reported stinger.

 

[theogt]

It was a stinger. Guys get those and play through them all the time, and they rarely take more than a few weeks to fully heal even when a player is playing/practicing through it. They said way back when that if it were mid-season he probably wouldn't have missed any time, so I assume he's 100% now and ready to go.

 

[CF74]

He's gonna get one of those pads that goes around the top of his shoulder pads to brace his neck, kinda like what LB's used to wear for high speed collisions..

 

[FLCowboyFan]

That precaution suggests they wish to help prevent or reduce a reoccurrence of the injury but does it suggest they think Martin is susceptible to a similar injury that will result in disability or retirement? There's a significant difference.

I don't think that is what the person was saying. I thought they were just saying there is more to it than a simple stinger. Most stingers are healed in a few days. At least they were when I played.

 

[perrykemp]

show me some EVIDENCE for your claim. Otherwise you are full of it.

Burmafrd, lately your posts seem unusually angry and lacking of civility. Normally I enjoy your posts.

What's going on?