[CBFF] Bradley to miss start of camp

[Steve Behrens]

Cynical?  Yeah.  I guess.  Still very plausible, though.  I think these guys
love their off season free time, and I really don't believe they think about
the monetary consequences nearly as thoroughly as any of us who live in the
'real world' would certainly do.  Very few of them do, anyway.  Maybe
there's *some* legitimacy to the procedure being scheduled so late in the
offseason, but I also think there's alot of procrastination involved as
well.

-Behr

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Victor Waldron <victor19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's a very cynical suggestion. You really think a player on his
> rookie contract, getting 2nd round money, chose to lounge around this
> offseason instead of keeping himself in shape? If anything I'd argue
> the opposite, that he sees his opportunity to become Rex/Kyle (or
> Kyle/Rex) preferred target, big production, big payday down the road,
> and he over did it a little too soon. Now, decides to have a scope so
> he can play the regular season near 100 percent instead of 90 to 95
> percent without. That 5 percent can be a huge margin on the field.
>
> V
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Steve Behrens <steve.behrens at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Just as it was also possible he knew he had a problem and didn't want
> > to bring it to anyone's attention too soon, just in case he'd have to
> > spend his off-season rehabing his knee.
> >
> > -Behr
> >
> > On 5/22/08, Victor Waldron <victor19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 2008/5/22 Steve Behrens <steve.behrens at gmail.com>:
> >> Could it (the injury) have
> >>> occurred just recently? Possibly, but I'm done constantly giving these
> >>> athletes the benifit of the doubt.  IMHO, odds are high that this
> occurred
> >>> during last years season, and he had plenty of time to have it taken
> care
> >>> of, but surgery would have cut in to his leasure time.
> >>
> >> I doubt there's an "injury" here, again, reconstructed knees are
> >> tricky. Likely what happened is he started to feel some discomfort
> >> when he ramped up his off-season program and decided (and/or was
> >> convinced) to just have the scope. It is *possible* that it wasn't
> >> necessary and he could have played with the discomfort, but to stay at
> >> such a high level I can see why someone would choose something like
> >> this if it isn't going to cost much time. Again again, how much of
> >> training camp Bradley might miss, day? week? month? is anyone's guess.
> >>
> >> V
>
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