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HD's avatar

Sounds like this might have beeen something that showed up in offseason workouts and prompted Seattle to move on this before training camp. I expect this is not serious but a cleanup to prevent a serious situation this season. Burns was an available camp body that should help during OTA's and mini camp. I think you're right Ken that he's probably not on the 53 roster.

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Mcdude's avatar

My mantra; “no injuries, no injuries, no injuries”and thank God we only play one game in Arizona a year. I read Seaside Joe for the weird sense of humor. Thanks Seattle Joe. Seriously Ken you’re honest and forthright and you do your due diligence as I mentioned before plus you make it fun. Love your readers comments but enough flattery. May the 12s be with you and go Seahawks!

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Luis Guilherme's avatar

Someone said on Field Gulls that this is a very simple procedure and Bobby Wagner has it every year.

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Dale's avatar

I hurt my knee and had an arthroscope back when I was beginning to realistically believe I may have a serious future in Australian football. I’d had the scans prior and my Dr said it didn’t look too bad and they could just trim the small cruciate tear that showed up. No problems.

When I woke up from the anaesthetic, I had a complete cruciate reconstruction and was looking at a fairly long recovery. Apparently, the outer sheath of the cruciate was all that was holding it together, and when the surgeon went to cut the torn piece that showed up on the scan, the whole thing essentially collapsed. So they had to replace it.

Although recovery treatment and surgery techniques are now better than they were back when I had my knee done, sometimes things aren’t as good as they seem. It ended my dreams of playing AFL, and my knee’s never been the same since.

As I wrote a couple of posts back, players being recruited with injuries is a concern. You just don’t know how it’s gonna turn out.

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Hawk 'n' Roll Songbird's avatar

I am unable to share your post on Twitter from your article today. The Twitter share button has been replaced with the Linkedin button. Not sure if this is your choice or a Substack thing. I'm seeing it for other Substack writers, but not all. Just an FYI.

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Seaside Joe's avatar

So strange!

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Stephen Pitell's avatar

Our depth seems fine to me. I still remember the glory days of this team and, don't get me wrong, they were glorious days, BUT in one of those glory day games, our LEO got injured and all of a sudden we couldn't pressure the QB and we lost an important game. Another game, Lane, I think got injured and all of a sudden the replacement was getting torched.

Much more than on the offensive side of the ball where deficiencies can be adjusted to with play calling, but on the defensive side of the ball, if there is a deficiency, it gets picked on until that weak link is removed from the game. There were at least six players on defense in the glory days that if they got injured our team became easy to scheme against. Earl Thomas, Sherman and whoever the other outside CB was, and our nickel CB was usually our weakest link so if he went down the replacement might be better but usually wasn't.

Last year our #1 defensive star, Adams, went down in the first half of the first game and from then on that was a weak link until Ryan Neal returned to the position and then we were fine because we had pretty good depth at safety with Neal as the first man up.

With Tre Brown, if he returns to form, Michael Jackson, Love, Coby Bryant all essentially competing for one spot as a defensive back, and the losers all acting as significant depth, I think we have the deepest and most talented group of back ups at DB as we have ever had, and while healthy, a group of starters in this league without peer. Certainly, our DB's represent the strength of our defense, and that might remain true even with an injury or two.

Our Edges is probably our second strongest and maybe our deepest of all the position groups. With the addition of Hall, we have Nwosu, Mafe, Taylor, Smith, and Robinson. With Irvin standing by his telephone. Taylor will be playing to get his next job and Mafe will be a vet now. The strength of this group is its depth.

Forget LB's. I think we'll assume BWags can hold down that fort all by himself if necessary.

Interior defensive line is the big, BIG question mark from starters to rotational to back ups this group is entirely new to each other. And while some serious money has been given to Jones and Reed, to some extent, no one knows how this group will perform. I cannot pretend to know we will be OK. Maybe SSJ can give us a deep dive on this group. I have hopes that Mike Morris or one of the UDFA's will shock us with some great play and allow us to rest easy, but that won't happen for a long time. So we, or I at least, need some kind words about this group from our most trustworthy source: SSJ.

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MOBILIZER's avatar

Woolen was injured while “walking onto the field” for OTA?

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KHammarling's avatar

I'm unsure about Indy 4. I like Mangold as a director, I like a lot of the cast, and the early buzz is generally positive if a little evasive on details or putting it on a par with Raiders or Crusade. However the trailers, they are just awful! I have my fingers crossed it at least is on a level with Temple of Doom (which is really really underrated, especially now it boasts an Oscar winner). And yes, it's an ideal excuse to pick up the blu-rays off the shelf and plan a weekend marathon [although this weekend it's Back To the Future trilogy followed by Still]

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Seaside Joe's avatar

Indy 5, actually! I know, we all forget about Crystal Skull. I have the lowest expectations for Dial.

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Charlie Gage's avatar

Did we forget about the Young Indiana Jones movie? It's kind of the back story about how Indy became Indiana Jones.

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Seaside Joe's avatar

Mercifully not counting it among the 5 Harrison Ford movies

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Stephen Pitell's avatar

I cannot get on this train. The first Indiana Jones movie was novel and original and creative, but the rest of them were all (fill in the blank) though they could at least be fun. I will give most of them that, though the one with the future Academy Award Winner was terrible partly because that future AAW was simply awful.

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Chuck Turtleman's avatar

I'm a curmudgeon about the whole topic. I'm of the age where I was able to see Raiders of the Lost Ark in the theaters, and loved it like any 12 year old. But like Star Wars and seemingly everything else from my childhood, it just won't end! I get why. There's a built-in audience and the kids who loved these films want their own kids to experience it. But I wish there was a life expectancy on sequels. Maybe 15 years. Just long enough to stop the Godfather 3 from happening.

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Seaside Joe's avatar

Think Last Crusade is surprisingly Funny! It has that going for it. 2 and 3 carry nostalgia more than anything else.

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Charlie Gage's avatar

It wasn't as well done or as fun as the Harrison Ford movies, I agree but it at least lets us know how Dr. Jones got his iconic hat.

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Defjames's avatar

Looking forward to learning more about the origins of the new players for our favorite team!

I think we all agree that Crystal Skull is and deserves to be forgettable. I’m really hoping that Dial exceeds my measured expectations.

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KHammarling's avatar

I don't recognise the film you are talking about. There are THREE Indiana Jones movies. THREE. In the same way there are EIGHT seasons of Scrubs. And i will never bend from these facts.

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