Twitter: Sources: Sean Lee - torn ACL confirmed

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NJ22 said:
How *** snake bit is this team. Not only do we lose the best player on defense but it just happens to be while being blocked by our first round pick. He barely touched him. The poor guy is just fragile.
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Either the team is snakebitten or Lee is fragile. Can't have it both ways.....
 
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Wood said:
this is not uncommon. ACL blow-out usually occur early in camps. No sure why that is case. Maybe ligaments have been over-worked in heavy weight training during off-season and can't handle sudden shift in weight on first few plays. Whatever the case it may be....we know one thing - Sean Lee body was not made to play in NFL.
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So true. Really a shame for the guy. He is everything you want in a player and person but it is just not in the cards for him.
 
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Wood said:
this is not uncommon. ACL blow-out usually occur early in camps. No sure why that is case. Maybe ligaments have been over-worked in heavy weight training during off-season and can't handle sudden shift in weight on first few plays. Whatever the case it may be....we know one thing - Sean Lee body was not made to play in NFL.
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You're on the same path as the point I've been making. Every time I see Lee without pads, he looks like a 15 year old kid with 60 lbs of artificial muscle weight. I don't mean I think he took steroids. I just mean he looks way too big for what his body was supposed to be. If he never played football, he would probably weigh 165-175 naturally right now. Maybe he has just been unlucky, but I think his body is simply rejecting the last 10 years of overtraining in the weight room and the pounding/sudden change of direction movements that go with playing football. I really like him and it totally sucks that he arrarently will not be having a stellar NFL career. God gave him the heart and mind for it but not the body. He did everything he possibly could to turn his body into an NFL body, but it seems it keeps rejecting those efforts.
 
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Cowboys22 said:
You're on the same path as the point I've been making. Every time I see Lee without pads, he looks like a 15 year old kid with 60 lbs of artificial muscle weight. I don't mean I think he took steroids. I just mean he looks way too big for what his body was supposed to be. If he never played football, he would probably weigh 165-175 naturally right now. Maybe he has just been unlucky, but I think his body is simply rejecting the last 10 years of overtraining in the weight room and the pounding/sudden change of direction movements that go with playing football. I really like him and it totally sucks that he arrarently will not be having a stellar NFL career. God gave him the heart and mind for it but not the body. He did everything he possibly could to turn his body into an NFL body, but it seems it keeps rejecting those efforts.
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Could be some truth to this but I also think he is too intense for his own good if that makes sense. A large part of avoiding injury is to play smart with your body and keep your head on a swivel. It is admirable he is playing with his hair on fire on every down like it is his last, but he has gotten knocked around quite a bit because he is so focused on making a play. That is a little of the overachiever in him coming out.
 
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Looking on the positive side at least we have plenty of time to decide on replacements I'd rather it happen now then a week before the 49ers game he had a good last season but we brought in some good defensive players in the draft
 
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big dog cowboy said:
I don't believe that. It's not like Lee played all 16 games last year. We can replace his 68 solo and 99 total tackles.
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This. And while I think Lee is an excellent MLB when healthy, it isn't as though he is infallible. Go check out the Chargers game from last year, they picked on the seam.

I've been saying it since the draft and now I double down on the statement - Hitchens was drafted as a replacement for Sims and to create depth at MLB. I have no idea if he will be any lick of good at the position, but it looks like we will find out. If anything, I'm thankful it happened now, gives us at least some opportunity to find some additional depth.

Anyone But Sims.
 

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Cowboys22 said:
You're on the same path as the point I've been making. Every time I see Lee without pads, he looks like a 15 year old kid with 60 lbs of artificial muscle weight. I don't mean I think he took steroids. I just mean he looks way too big for what his body was supposed to be. If he never played football, he would probably weigh 165-175 naturally right now. Maybe he has just been unlucky, but I think his body is simply rejecting the last 10 years of overtraining in the weight room and the pounding/sudden change of direction movements that go with playing football. I really like him and it totally sucks that he arrarently will not be having a stellar NFL career. God gave him the heart and mind for it but not the body. He did everything he possibly could to turn his body into an NFL body, but it seems it keeps rejecting those efforts.
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This is a good post.
Eventually, this was going to happen to Lee. He wasn't really even doing anything, and he gets a bad knee injury.
He has had too many repeated injuries. I just don't think is body is suited for the NFL, not at his present position.
And the oft-injuries have me wondering if his body hasn't been supplemented. And I'll just leave it at that.
I think he's done as a professional football player.
 
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Alexander said:
Bringing Sims back would be some incredibly lazy work by the pro personnel department.
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Agreed. For as bad as Carter played at times last year, Sims showed why he hasn't been successful in the NFL. So bad once he came in.
 
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