Cowboys Working Hard to Downgrade an Injury
PFT: https://t.co/dTgXinrw7E
What was previously described as a hairline fracture in Dez Bryant's leg became something that Jerry Jones declared Bryant would be able to play though depending on his tolerance for pain.
When that explanation didn't fly, Ian Rapaport was given this gem this weekend:
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“Source who has seen his results said a knee like his is commonly referred to as a bone bruise,” Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. “No long-term risk.”
Except that glides past two issues:
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NBC Sports Medicine Analyst Mike Ryan explained on Friday’s PFT Live that playing with a fracture is about more than playing with pain.
“You can put any kind of fancy adjective up front, call it a hairline fracture or a stress fracture, it’s still a crack in the bone,” Ryan said. “So the concern here is the fact of the injury itself getting worse. A fracture can always get worse. And if the rumors are true that it is in the tibia plateau, that’s a weight-bearing surface. . . . The biggest concern here is more of the injury itself worsening, not necessarily pain management.”
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“A bone bruise is a pooling of blood in the bone secondary to high-impact trauma,” Ryan tells PFT regarding the revision to the assessment of the injury. “With any bone fracture there will be significant bleeding in the bone.”
Bryant skipped out on a MRI this week, and I think missed reporting to team headquarters. Presumably because he doesn't agree with Jerry's public doctoring.
