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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 833405">Time and time again I hear injuries treated like the fading brakes on your car:  roll in to the shop, apply the fix, good as new.  And time and time again it does not work out that way.Whether an injury is major or minor, for a guy on the bubble to start with, passing a physical is only the first hurdle.  For guys like that losing a little of what they had is often losing too much.It never ceases to amaze me how even major injuries are viewed this way.  I saw one "professional" analyst say recently that with the medical state of the art, ACL injury recovery is nearly a given.  Tell that to Nico Siragua, or the hundreds of guys who float in and then out of 90 man rosters, because of talents diminished by injury, minor or major.If a guy's claim to developmental status on a roster is based on a 4.37 40 time, he dislocates a patella, recovers and clears a medical exam, and is now running 4.55, there's a good chance he'll get waived off a 90 man roster. Is that the case here?  I don't know, but to assume it is not would be foolish.</blockquote>

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