Newman To Have Ankle Surgery..

[Yeagermeister]

Are you forgetting the whole groin thing that kept him out a significant portion of this year?

How anyone can hide from the fact that he HAS been extremely injury prone the past couple of years is beyond me. Am I saying we need to get rid of him? No way, he is a true talent. But let's not pretend he isn't injury prone.

I was corrected in a later post and no he's not injury prone. Has he had a few injuries yes but is he hurt every year? No. You want to see what injury prone is? Take a look at Stanback. He gets hurt anytime someone touches him.

 

[Eskimo]

Which is why Philadelphia still has Donovan McNabb, still has Brian Dawkins, among other players.

Oh, and why New England still has Mike Vrabel, Tedi Bruschi, Rodney Harrison, among others. Oh and that's why they even signed and brought in Junior Seau and John Lynch too (even though he was cut).

Yeah, NE really doesn't sign older players.

Most of those guys aren't getting 8M/yr for 6 years like Newman is. To me, that's a contract you give someone who is 25-27 yo, not 30 yo.

 

[Eskimo]

Are you forgetting the whole groin thing that kept him out a significant portion of this year?

How anyone can hide from the fact that he HAS been extremely injury prone the past couple of years is beyond me. Am I saying we need to get rid of him? No way, he is a true talent. But let's not pretend he isn't injury prone.

This is fairly typical for football players around the age 30 - this is a young man's game.

 

[Eskimo]

I was corrected in a later post and no he's not injury prone. Has he had a few injuries yes but is he hurt every year? No. You want to see what injury prone is? Take a look at Stanback. He gets hurt anytime someone touches him.

Stanback's shoulders probably not meant to play pro football. If he has definitive surgery and it goes again, it is time to move on.

 

[The Panch]

yup, Newman is one of the Studs on this team. Leads by example, which the rest of the team needs to pay attention too, including the Head Coach. (sorry, I'm in a bash-the-coach mode today)

You're right. He leads right to the media to vent out his frustrations cause he's such a great leader. :tu

 

[Hoofbite]

Maybe they can stictch up the hatchet wound between his legs while they are at it.

I love the guy but what a injury riddled season that was.

 

[zeromaster]

Let's hope there's no down time during the coming season, or the roof is likely to blow off the 'Zone.

 

[CarlAllDay]

im sorry but i was a big newman supporter but we have overated him as a corner. he has proven to be solid but not worth a top 10 pick imo.

the guy has been hurt for the past few years wether he missed games or not it doesnt matter but how many times you heard ( oh newman is playing on a bad foot, or ankle, or planthar fracitis, the groin, sports hernia, all kinds of crap.

and he also got beat quite a few times this year at crucial moments.

he's a solid corner but at 30 we gave newman...just like every other guy in our secondary too much money.

the only promise we got out of the secondary was good play from our young guys and some flashes from pacman.

henry was horrible, hamlin....dont get me started, and newman was solid but occasionally gave up the big play santanna moss, santonio holmes, and desean jackson made him look like a first year guy not being able to locate the ball in the air and thats happened quite a few times but some guys dropped the ball....hixon, and i think mark clayton and others.

he's good but not great sorry.

ashamunga whatever his name is he's good and young and worth the money,

rasheen mathis young and good and worth the money, these guys have size and speed and they stay healthy.

and teams like the steelers and ravens do it with nobody's at corner (steelers had ike taylor and deshea townsend, and the ravens had samari rolle and fabian washington.

none of those guys are making tnew money.

 

[28 Joker]

That field sucks.

Take cover, Newman. Here come the missles.

 

[BouncingCheese]

Look, he is injury prone. lets cut all of the homeristic sentiments aside.

The only thing that we can say for sure is that either his injuries are so drastic that he can't play with them, or that he can't stand the pain threshold or doesn't have the pain threshold that most if not all of these players play with, considering that almost no one is ever 100 percent healthy.

If anything it makes we marvel/shake my head at how much these guys put their body through.

Hopefully he can come back 100 percent because we are going to need him next year anthony henry is godawful at this point.

 

[Eskimo]

Look, he is injury prone. lets cut all of the homeristic sentiments aside.

The only thing that we can say for sure is that either his injuries are so drastic that he can't play with them, or that he can't stand the pain threshold or doesn't have the pain threshold that most if not all of these players play with, considering that almost no one is ever 100 percent healthy.

If anything it makes we marvel/shake my head at how much these guys put their body through.

Hopefully he can come back 100 percent because we are going to need him next year anthony henry is godawful at this point.

I strongly suspect Henry will not be back at CB with us. He might be traded if there is a market (? Parcells), cut or switched to a nickel safety. He should not be lined up against WRs anymore.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Imagine the uproar had we beaten the Eagles and he was out for the playoffs, the injury prone label would've never gone away.

 

[Achozen]

Don't forgot how he was hurt his second season, but played through it. (Even though it was probably the worst season of his career.)

 

[irvin88]

Which is why Philadelphia still has Donovan McNabb, still has Brian Dawkins, among other players.

Oh, and why New England still has Mike Vrabel, Tedi Bruschi, Rodney Harrison, among others. Oh and that's why they even signed and brought in Junior Seau and John Lynch too (even though he was cut).

Yeah, NE really doesn't sign older players.

Larry Allen ring a bell ? Flozell Adams ??:laugh1: