Don’t want to see them until after the bye
We can 4-1 without them
2 division home games after the bye
I thought I saw somewhere , where Hassanein was throwing up in one of the endzones?
and I don’t care who you are, you must hydrate or you can get heat stroke and die
The Kerby saga is so damn confusing.
I’m not buying what Dan is selling.
I like Dan, and I think he tries to be as straight of a shooter as possible. However, now it’s a “personal issue”? You mean like how Teddy was out for “personal issues” and retired in a day?
Here’s what I think is really happening. The team believes Kerby is done, but Kerby doesn’t believe it. Dan especially will NOT pull the plug on a guy early. If Campbell has any real weakness, it’s for guys who are hurt who are doing everything they can to come back but are not getting a chance. That’s because that WAS Dan Campbell’s career. Teams gave up on him and cut him loose, even though he was trying to rehab to play. He will never give up on a guy who is trying his best to play.
I think Dan is letting Kerby do everything humanly possible to try to get back, but they are really just waiting for Kerby himself to figure it out. Kerby is in full denial that his knee can’t be fixed, and is trying every possible remedy and resource they can dig up.
I fully expect that Brian Branch will play before Kerby does. If Kerby does play, I don’t think he makes it 2 games. I think if he does force his way into the lineup, his knee will immediately balloon up, and that will be that.
I’m good with that plan 
Our high school coach on defense always used to tell us during 2 a days if we weren’t puking we weren’t really trying.
that game he was hurt was just so…headscratching.
barely able to walk off. spends time in tent. comes out like the 6 million dollar man and had his leg replaced. then has to be almost carried off again.
I just want some of the meds they gave him when I invariably pull everything either sneezing or picking up something off the floor.
To me it seemed like Dan was a little tongue tied and didn’t really know what to say.
Nah.
There’re 2 issues, 3 really:
- Can Kerby get his knee to a place where it’s responsible to let him practice?
- Can he survive that and get into a game?
- Can he plausibly make it thru several games, maybe more?
I think everyone’s guess on #1 is yes. The knee has responded enough that him getting to practice is a reasonable possibility. Kerby would be practicing already if it were up to him.
Beyond that, Dan doesn’t know. Kerby doesn’t know. The knee will never be fully healthy again and it hasn’t been tested under game-like conditions for a long time.
Kerby’s faith, his personality, and the fact that it’s his future may make him a bit more hopeful than Dan and others, but I doubt there’s nearly the distance between them that you’re suggesting.
I get what you are saying, but we will see what happens. I don’t have any inside knowledge, so I am just going by the “actions speak louder than words”.
Here is what what I know. Kerby’s knee can’t be fixed with surgery, otherwise he would’ve already had it. That tells me, it’s not a ligament type issue. There were early reports it’s a cartilage or meniscus problem. I haven’t seen anything else to dispute that, so I think it’s correct.
Kerby can’t practice. Dude is making it known he is climbing the walls to get out there, but the team won’t let him. If Kerby was healthy enough to practice, he would be out there.
The initial injury happened on 9/28. Joseph tried to play through it on 10/12, and that was the last time he played. We are now at 10 months exactly, and he still cannot practice. He tried practicing during the season, but the knee kept blowing up. He tried throwing a huge brace on it the week of the Dallas game, and still couldnt get right to play. Understandable, the Lions shut him down for the year. Makes sense.
However, we are now at 10 months during the injury, and he still cannot practice. What injury does one have that you don’t recover after 10 months of rest? Even if we say he was practicing until December, call it 8 months of rest? LaPorta had back surgery, as major as it gets, and he is practicing. Branch has an achilles, and Campbell is already putting a time table on it. Notice that Dan gets very vague on Kerby’s time. “Well, he is close to Branch”. “We hope to get them back” around the beginning of the season. Campbell’s answers on Branch are more definitive.
I think we will be lucky to see Kerby play one more game, and that will probably be it. If Kerby comes out of that game ok, then I will have serious hope that he can resume an NFL career. Right now though, I don’t buy it. Too much does not make sense.
Toradol is a hell of a pain killer….had it a few times
It’s not as black-and-white as you’re making it.
The issue for DC and the rest isn’t whether Kerby is healthy enough to practice. It’s whether they’ve done all they can to minimize the chance of a setback when he does return.
Those are two different things.
Getting Kerby back to 90% of his current best might be enough to get him thru practices and games, but they’re gonna take a couple more months and try to get him to 100%. And they can’t be sure about the timeline for doing that.
Branch’s situation is completely different. Dan can be much more definitive about his timeline because his prognosis is much more straightforward.
If it’s career threatening and progressive (which of course we don’t know for sure), then it will keep getting worse, not better. 90% may be all you get. It was the same way with Gurley. Everyone knew he had a degenerative knee condition. Rams took a chance on him, and got some very good production. However, eventually the knee conditioned progressed until he couldn’t perform at his original level, and gradually he couldn’t perform at an NFL level.
I want to see K Joseph out there preseason game one. I’ve had enough of this waiting around