based on what? You know something we don't? I get you think the team stinks and the future is bleak, but as someone in your position here to throw that out without basing it on anything is stupid
The NFL is not a very forgiving league when it comes to not performing. If players are in on average 45 games after the injury, they're doing something right.
79% of the players returned and played for an average of almost 3 seasons (45 games). One player in the study returned to play 142 games.
Meaning, there is nearly a 4-out-of-5 chance Cruz will return (and even THAT number ignore that almost all of the good players returned), and if he does, on average, he will have 45 games remaining. Many marginal players have an average career length of 3 years anyway, and Cruz is not marginal, so one would think he'd be in a good position to exceed that.
Mike - what percentage of those guys were WRs best attribute is short area quickness and changing directions at full speed?
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79% of the players returned and played for an average of almost 3 seasons (45 games). One player in the study returned to play 142 games.
Meaning, there is nearly a 4-out-of-5 chance Cruz will return (and even THAT number ignore that almost all of the good players returned), and if he does, on average, he will have 45 games remaining. Many marginal players have an average career length of 3 years anyway, and Cruz is not marginal, so one would think he'd be in a good position to exceed that.
Mike - what percentage of those guys were WRs best attribute is short area quickness and changing directions at full speed?
I don't have those numbers, jlukes... and while it absolutely is a fair distinction to make, it's not one that should tip the scales from "very likely to return" to "not likely to return." In fact, just as we don't know if none of them are WRs, we also don't know if many of them are.
What I do know is what I mentioned about Cadillac Williams. Tore his left patella one year, tore his right one the following year. Came back and ran for the same YPC for the rest of his career.
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Victor Cruz has gotten clearance to ditch his crutches. He's able to bend his surgically repaired knee 95 degrees, a good step in recovery.
The NFL is not a very forgiving league when it comes to not performing. If players are in on average 45 games after the injury, they're doing something right.
games played statistic only indicates that they're at least average. Nothing more.
I'm not rooting against Cruz, obviously but it's an open question how close to his former self he comes.
You hope he does, of course, but there has to be a contingency plan, and that plan should NOT be based entirely on Randle or Jernigan developing/recovering. Giants need another good/decent starter opposite OBJ, probably through FA.
Optimists are naive and pessimists are realists.
Meaning, there is nearly a 4-out-of-5 chance Cruz will return (and even THAT number ignore that almost all of the good players returned), and if he does, on average, he will have 45 games remaining. Many marginal players have an average career length of 3 years anyway, and Cruz is not marginal, so one would think he'd be in a good position to exceed that.
Mike - what percentage of those guys were WRs best attribute is short area quickness and changing directions at full speed?
Whoa. why wouldn't they bring him back? He's been on fire this year. Not that I'm complaining. =) I'd gladly take him off their hands.
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79% of the players returned and played for an average of almost 3 seasons (45 games). One player in the study returned to play 142 games.
Meaning, there is nearly a 4-out-of-5 chance Cruz will return (and even THAT number ignore that almost all of the good players returned), and if he does, on average, he will have 45 games remaining. Many marginal players have an average career length of 3 years anyway, and Cruz is not marginal, so one would think he'd be in a good position to exceed that.
Mike - what percentage of those guys were WRs best attribute is short area quickness and changing directions at full speed?
I don't have those numbers, jlukes... and while it absolutely is a fair distinction to make, it's not one that should tip the scales from "very likely to return" to "not likely to return." In fact, just as we don't know if none of them are WRs, we also don't know if many of them are.
What I do know is what I mentioned about Cadillac Williams. Tore his left patella one year, tore his right one the following year. Came back and ran for the same YPC for the rest of his career.
I thought though recovery long, the chances are better for coming back if the latter.
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Victor Cruz has gotten clearance to ditch his crutches. He's able to bend his surgically repaired knee 95 degrees, a good step in recovery.
games played statistic only indicates that they're at least average. Nothing more.
I'm not rooting against Cruz, obviously but it's an open question how close to his former self he comes.