Lee's injury a blessing in disguise

[Rockport]

Right. I think every team and their fan base wants to lose their best player on defense.... Just so they can be blessed.

Who said anyone wanted this to happen? Only you. Geez.

 

[Rockytop6]

I would rather 6 or 9 games of this than 0.

I absolutely agree. I would rather he had one game than O. Yet, I also would rather have his backup better prepared than we had last year. Hopefully, he will be back sometime during the season. I'm waiting for the results of the MRI.

 

[jazzcat22]

This guy's injury history is really odd.
Has he ever had the same thing twice?
Broken toe, broken wrist (that he played with), strained neck, now an ACL. It seems so fluky and random...except it can't be fully random if something different happens annually.

The Ticket said earlier, but I didn't quite hear everything. But they said something about he had this injury in college with an ACL, on a simliar play in a practice also. He made a cut, the knee went out. I'm at work, so haven't had time to research it.

 

[Hoofbite]

I think you miss his point. He should have used if instead of when. The point is instead of throwing a guy out there if Lee gets injured during the season, having the injury this early gives somebody a chance to learn and practice in the middle so the backup is better prepared. Although your statement about Spence, Ratliff, Crawford and Bass more describes the word you used, it would have been better if we had backups better prepared than they were last year.

INJURIES ARE NEVER A BLESSING IF IT TAKES ANYBODY AND ESPECIALLY ONE OF YOUR TWO OR THREE BEST PLAYERS OFF THE FIELD. However, if it happens during the OTAs it isn't quite as difficult to prepare somebody to fill in rather than it happen in the middle of the season and somebody is thrown into the situation.

If we lived in an ideal world, then nobody would ever get injured on the Cowboys' team. Yet every year it seems the Cowboys have more injuries than anybody else. While it is always bad, the timing of the injury can make it even worse. Again the timing is the issue here. I hope Lee will be with the Cowboys for many years and is never injured again. When I saw the news, I told my wife that the Cowboys just lost their BEST player on defense.

The idea that someone can now learn is flat out stupid. Second string players aren't sitting at home. They're practicing every day just like the starters.

Whatever benefit there would be in having him in there now because of time to learn would have been matched by an addition X number of weeks to learn if Lee hadn't gotten hurt but was destined to.

Guy now has about 4-1/2 months to learn.

Anyone who chooses that over the 7-8 months of learning time he would have had if Lee had been able to play for 8-10 weeks is a fool.

 

[tm1119]

Yeah great, now we have more time to realize how mediocre the rest of our LB's are. Sounds like a real blessing...

 

[Vintage]

The idea that someone can now learn is flat out stupid. Second string players aren't sitting at home. They're practicing every day just like the starters.

Whatever benefit there would be in having him in there now because of time to learn would have been matched by an addition X number of weeks to learn if Lee hadn't gotten hurt but was destined to.

Guy now has about 4-1/2 months to learn.

Anyone who chooses that over the 7-8 months of learning time he would have had if Lee had been able to play for 8-10 weeks is a fool.

I think you are blessed with common sense. Maybe you could spare some and bless some others?

 

[burmafrd]

OP is brutally true. Does anyone here really think that Sean Lee can make it through a full season? There is NO evidence to support that. So we might as well lose him now and have as much time as possible to adapt and overcome.

 

[Nation]

I absolutely agree. I would rather he had one game than O. Yet, I also would rather have his backup better prepared than we had last year. Hopefully, he will be back sometime during the season. I'm waiting for the results of the MRI.

He won't be. At this point in the medicine world ACL tears are typically diagnosed by exam with the MRI confirmatory only. Assuming they are correct (which is the safe assumption) he'll have to wait for the MCL to heal before they open him up.

 

[Rockport]

I think you miss his point. He should have used if instead of when. The point is instead of throwing a guy out there if Lee gets injured during the season, having the injury this early gives somebody a chance to learn and practice in the middle so the backup is better prepared. Although your statement about Spence, Ratliff, Crawford and Bass more describes the word you used, it would have been better if we had backups better prepared than they were last year.

INJURIES ARE NEVER A BLESSING IF IT TAKES ANYBODY AND ESPECIALLY ONE OF YOUR TWO OR THREE BEST PLAYERS OFF THE FIELD. However, if it happens during the OTAs it isn't quite as difficult to prepare somebody to fill in rather than it happen in the middle of the season and somebody is thrown into the situation.

If we lived in an ideal world, then nobody would ever get injured on the Cowboys' team. Yet every year it seems the Cowboys have more injuries than anybody else. While it is always bad, the timing of the injury can make it even worse. Again the timing is the issue here. I hope Lee will be with the Cowboys for many years and is never injured again. When I saw the news, I told my wife that the Cowboys just lost their BEST player on defense.

Your comments are stating the obvious about the reasons for this being a blessing in disguise. I guess the mouth breathers need it to be explained to them. Thanks for doing that.

 

[fifaguy]

A positive note. It provides a built in excuse for a .500 season.

Again?

 

[Redball Express]

Stupid to talk about letting him go now. Let him rehab. Find his replacement and just understand that he can no longer be considered a starter on this team.

And pay him how?

And what?

Nope..

This is not a good message to send to the team..

..that you can not play and still be rewarded.?

Sorry.

Not going to go there anymore.

 

[Rockport]

It's a disaster. He's the only blue chip player we definitely had on that side of the ball. Any replacement is a major step down in both talent and leadership.

I'm sick about this.

He's hardly ever on the field so it's not a big loss considering that fact.

 

[ceerrece]

Lee is an excelent player, the best on our defense, that's true. Dallas took a risk selecting him and they knew it. This should not surprise the scouting staff at all, that's why they draft Hitchens, that's why they consider Shazier in the first.

 

[NJ22]

Let's face it. Lee wasn't going to be able to play most of the season anyways. I mean he hasn't for his whole football career basically. He's too small for his position and plays at 100% all the time. It's a blessing in disguise that he's out for the season in May. This gives the GM plenty of time to come up with an alternative. We may not have a player for the opener who's as good as Lee is, but at least we'll have someone who's had a chance to learn the system and not be thrown to the wolves in game 6 or 9 as in years past.

I disagree that he is too small but he is definitely too brittle. I kind of thought this too, that it is better to happen now. He is a good guy, it sucks for him.

 

[TX_Yid]

Seems like the difference between an 8 win season and a 7 win season to me. Meh.

 

[Idgit]

He's hardly ever on the field so it's not a big loss considering that fact.

You're overall point is that it can be a good thing that it at least happened early so we have time to adjust. That's the bright side of losing your best defensive player for the year. I appreciate that, and appreciate the positive post. It's just that the bright side of losing such a good player is not very comforting right now. And it's not like we have anything other than stop-gaps in the LB corps beyond Lee and, maybe, Bruce Carter. This basically puts Carter out of position and Durant probably on the field and then leaves us with very little established depth at two of the three LB positions. It sucks. I'd take however many games we could get from our best guy and scramble to replace him, any day.

 

[daveferr33]

This gives the GM plenty of time to come up with an alternative.

So let me see if I get this right. It is a blessing in disguise because the Front Office is so inept that they cannot be counted on to come up with a contingency plan for an oft injured player unless that oft injured player is unavailable three months before the season?

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

It must be a great disguise because even though you told me, I still can't see it.

Lee was a blessing, been very productive and would have been productive if he was healthy one of the best in recent years for the league but everyone knew it couldn't be the real thing except the Cowboys disguise of a GM.

 

[Rockport]

You're overall point is that it can be a good thing that it at least happened early so we have time to adjust. That's the bright side of losing your best defensive player for the year. I appreciate that, and appreciate the positive post. It's just that the bright side of losing such a good player is not very comforting right now. And it's not like we have anything other than stop-gaps in the LB corps beyond Lee and, maybe, Bruce Carter. This basically puts Carter out of position and Durant probably on the field and then leaves us with very little established depth at two of the three LB positions. It sucks. I'd take however many games we could get from our best guy and scramble to replace him, any day.

My other point is that Lee is hardly ever on the field so it's not that big a loss. Progress can now begin on finding someone currently on the roster and get them ready, or go out and trade for a player or pick up one of the vets still out there in FA. The doom and gloom over this is ridiculous if you look at the facts of the situation in it's entirety.

 

[Rockport]

So let me see if I get this right. It is a blessing in disguise because the Front Office is so inept that they cannot be counted on to come up with a contingency plan for an oft injured player unless that oft injured player is unavailable three months before the season?

The player personnel acquisition has been fairly good as of late, i.e. last couple of years.