re: Colt's injury/playing

Movie quotes are fair game.

I guess it still looks like his back to me.

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The coaches and his "handlers" telling him "you are hurt. sit down." Is more plausible.

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Well that's what I'm saying.

I'm sure Colt was injured in some capacity. The extent of that injury is what I'm questioning.

IMO, he was hurt but not so much so that he couldn't go back in the game. He and his dad and their handlers surmised it may not be in his best interest to try and play with an injury and that it would affect his draft status further than his shitty performance against Nebraska already had.

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I'm just not buying it.

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I know you aren't.

But I am.

We just perceive the situation differently.

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So pretty much you think the link that he couldn't throw 7 yards with accuracy was a lie I guess?

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Sure.

If they think he's hurting and don't want to risk bad publicity, you aggressively push a story that his injury is worse than it is and voila, he's a media darling instead of a scape goat.

I've just never seen a player get "hurt" and be incapable of playing while also not appearing to be in any sort of pain whatsoever.

I guess I still don't see the percentage.

Sitting out he's now labeled as a guy who might not play hurt when he did get banged up and keep playing in the Big 12 this year

I can't see wanting to sit out in his position... and even if I was worried about hurting my draft stock because of injury I'd still want to play if I could do so effectively

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So pretty much you think the link that he couldn't throw 7 yards with accuracy was a lie I guess?

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PASADENA, Calif. – Colt McCoy lined up about 7 yards from his dad, Brad. This was inside the Texas locker room underneath the Rose Bowl bleachers, the Longhorns quarterback missing the biggest game of his career, about to attempt the most important throw of his life.

Colt had the ball and was going to pass it to his dad as a slew of doctors and trainers watched closely. How many times had these two thrown a football back and forth, from their yard in little Tuscola, Texas, to the practice fields of Jim Ned High School, where the dad was the coach and the son was the star?

“Millions,” Colt said. “Millions of times.”

Colt had just lied to the Texas doctors and said that he was capable of returning to the BCS title game against Alabama. A hit by the Tide’s Marcell Dareus, on the fifth play of the game, had sent him to this locker room. He wanted back out there. So he tried to sound convincing despite the fact his arm felt “like a noodle.”

He hadn’t come this far to sit. Colt McCoy was going to lead Texas to the championship. He believed this. He’d always believed this. When he went down, he said, “We were about to dominate.” They weren’t going to lose, not where the Longhorns had last won a championship in 2005, not against a team against whom they’d never lost, certainly not 37-21, as the scoreboard would show after 60 minutes.

Yet on the TV in the corner, he had seen it all fade away in his absence. Alabama was rolling; Texas’ early lead was long gone.

So Colt gripped the ball, stared at his dad and thought, “It’s just a simple throw.” He threw. The ball went soft and wide. Everyone grimaced. “Give it to me again,” Colt demanded. Brad got the ball and gave it back to his son. The next throw was the same, bouncing harmlessly away. “Give it to me again,” Colt said, again. Brad did.

It was the same. It was over. Colt couldn’t throw it 7 yards to his own father. “My arm was dead,” he said. The dad hugged his son. The son broke down and cried.

“There’s no pain on my body,” Colt said later. “If I was a free safety, I’d go out there and make a tackle. I [just] have no strength to throw a football.”

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so for Dr Force, truman etc to be right and this article to be wrong then Dan Wetzel is publishing a fabricated story to benefit McCoy's draft status

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I love how yall ignore the fact that Rothlisberger played the other day with a Shoulder sprain........which is actual damage to ligaments and yall are sympathsizing with numbness is Colts arm.

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jesus christ you've ruined my thread. You're an idiot and should be banned for littering all of our minds with stupidity.

I've pitched with strained ligaments. It hurts, but it's fine. I've pitched with a broken shoulder. Hurts, but you can get through it. I had numbness in my finger once (keep in mind, not my whole arm) and couldn't do a fricking thing.

I also spoke today with an orthopedist (who has direct knowledge of this situation) and he was adamant that Colt could do nothing. No shots would have made a difference and cortizone wouldn't have done a thing.

And since you're such a fricking idiot, do you know how it's administered? With a numbing agent to make sure you've hit the right spot. This would have done as much for him as making him eat chicken noodle soup.

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I'm just saying the fact that he suddenly couldn't play after one fairly typical hit which occurs on a weekly basis but this time just so happened to be in a magical spot in his back that made his entire arm go numb seems fishy.

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there are places in your body that someone can put their finger in and render you helpless. That's how nerves work. You shut them down and you can't do anything.