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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 963315" data-attributes="member: 13032">All that you say is spot on.  Bakh's injury is such that I expect it's confounding even the medical experts.  Actually, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more with athletes who tear their ACL.  It's a complicated surgery and repair.  The surgeon in most cases I believe has to rebuild the ligament using a ligament from somewhere else or a cadaver ligament.  And once the surgical incision is closed, there's no way - well other than very unreliable x-rays, CT scans, or MRIs - to determine how well the ligament has "taken".  On top of that these are all big guys were talking about, especially Bakh and Jenkins.  That's a lot of weight and pressure being channeled through the knee.Coaches always keep injury updates as limited as possible, mostly to keep a competitor guessing.  We're well beyond that with Bakh and his lack of participation is a concern.  But just file it with all the other things we don't control and wait for better days.</blockquote>

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