Avery out 4-6 Weeks

I’m sich and tired of us being consumed by inuries too! We can’t seem to catch a break!

Here is more details on it:

http://www.stlouisrams.com/blog/

I looked for news of this on here and didn’’t see anything so I posted the same information….after I finsihed it, it showed me this one’s been on here for 2 hours. Oh well. Beat me to it.

If this thing lingers and Curry doesn’t have a lot left, its going to come down to Robinson and McMike really needing to be able to move the chains.

Week 1 which is September 13th is FIVE (5) weeks away. It’s very possible depending the severity. He could be ready for the season.

Let’s keep our hopes up!

seriously?! already?! I’m hoping Bond is right, cause he’s the main WR for the future, as of now

…even if Avery is healed up by the 1st or 2nd regular season game, he’ll have missed most of training camp and all the exhibition games. To be fair, he’ll need a while to get up to speed. Thanks Heavens it wasn’t a knee, but this development is a terrible blow in one of our weakest areas…

This is a big blow to one of our weakest areas. Nevertheless, I tend to see a silver lining in everything. This gives more time to every receiver below Avery who was likely the #1 on the depth chart. Now, the depth of our WR corps gets more PT throughout the preseason which should pay dividends upon Avery’s return. Nonetheless, I felt like shit when I heard this.

Broken bones usually — not always but usually — heal better and often come back stronger. This is soft tissue damage that could very well linger for half the season or more.

I have less faith that Burton can do what Avery was supposed to do and now think Robinson and McMike will just be relied on more as Bulgers progressive reads. We’ll see.

Just being broken doesn’t mean surgery is called for. Surgery is done to help them align the bones if its a real bad break or to help the bones seal and heal faster if they just want to rush him back from a minor break. I’ve broken small bones in my 20’s and been back in 4 weeks (no surgery). Just depends. I think soft tissue is worse in about 4 out of 5 cases, from what I’ve seen anyway.

Here ya go. None of the recievers sounded very confident, which is sort of unusual for speed guys, in fact no one said they felt like they could fill Avery’s spot and Curry called him the best receiver they had.

I’m not a big fan of outlandish bluster but I’d feel better if someone had the confidence to say “Hey, don’t worry, I got it”.

Sando says Avery’s injury is specifically a broken fourth metatarsal bone, which is the foot bone that connects to the toe.

Have you ever heard of a “lisfranc injury”? The lisfranc is a joint in the foot, the metatarsal is one of the bones in that joint, and those injuries can take an entire year to heal properly. Because the metatarsals are so small, yet load bearing, they frequently don’t heal well. In fact, the 5th (smaller) one usually needs a screw to keep it aligned.

This is what happened to Michael Crabtree, who had surgery on March 4, and was given an estimated 10 week recoevery time — yes 10 weeks. Since he hasn’t reported to camp, it’s an open question as to whether he’s 100% even now.

I remember when the Rams bought a plant ticket for Mark Sanchez to fly to St Lou the day before the draft, then passed him up and took JSmith – that taught me they make good use of disinformation. Kinda like the Pats do.

Whether this is really a cracked 4th metatarsal or the more easily broken 5th, or even a lisfranc injury, I think we will be extremely lucky to have Avery back in the earlier time frame of 4 weeks. I’m thinking it could turn into 8 real easy.