Originally posted by cciowa:
Originally posted by mayo49:stick it in a bucket of ice water or is that old timey advice?
Originally posted by Giedi:
Originally posted by cciowa:
i just think a high sprain lingers for a while. the good players like frank gire play through it and are fine. the crappy ones like jason webster do not. the only real cure i think is rest and we can not afford for him to miss multiple games in my opinion unless it just gets to a point where he hurts us. so fine. limit him in practice, watch him carefully in the games and let the chips fall. we can not be so arrogant to look at our schedule and say .. oh here is a easy win. set him then
A running back and an pass rusher are two different positions using two different areas of the body. In a RB, he's leaning forward and I think his knees are more important than the Ankles. In a pass rusher, all that stress of bending the arc and fighting off the OT and levering a 300+ pound OT out of the way - to get to the QB - puts a lot of stress on that Ankle. Unless you can put some sort of brace on the ankle to limit movement (and I don't think there is such a device) - OKids' point about tearing tendons and ligaments in a pass rush really does concern me.
The best they can do to limit movement is tape it up.
Pretty much, ice it down and tape it up.
But yeah, it's a no-risk-it, no-biscuit league. I can see WHY Kyle/Saleh will play Bosa despite the ankle injury, I just cannot agree to it. First play of the game, he reinjures it. That tells me the ankle is still fragile. The fact that he did better at the end of the game is probably due to adrenalin. The fact that he's still not pain free days after the game, that's another indication it's more severe than what people think. NFL guys have a lot of pain tolerance. Typical NFL Guys suit up and play with dislocated shoulders on game day, for example. It's up to the medical guys to hold them back for their own good. 
