re: Drew Brees Torn MCL????

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Why is Heath the only person from the organization that is talking about this?

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Because Heath has a big mouth to go with his big ego. He also wants to keep his name out there.

I TOLD YOU MOTHERfrickERS!

MCL injuries can vary quite a bit depending on the location of the tear on the ligament. The ligament blends into the capsule (surrounding soft tissue) of the knee joint as does the ACL. One of the reasons why they are more serious than an LCL or PCL that pretty much just connect straight bone onto bone.

Again not to beat a dead horse...but there is NO WAY that someone who is AS RELIANT on being mechanically perfect as Drew due to his size and lack of a huge arm would not be significantly affected by having his MCL injured.

Just watch that new sports science video that just came out on him and you'll see what I mean.

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I hope he doesnt play anyway!

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I personally feel the pro bowl is boring, and the biggest waste of time- more so than any other sport. Not to mention, give the players a rest, it means nothing, and why risk injury to some star players?

from Brees himself...

SC: The big news of the weekend, as I'm sure you're aware, wasn't the Steelers and the Packers advancing to the Super Bowl, but of Jay Cutler's injury. It was revealed Monday that he suffered an MCL tear. A lot of players on Twitter and television shows criticized Cutler for coming out of the game. Your teammate, Heath Evans, was on ESPN today and questioned it. He said you played six weeks this season with an MCL sprain of your own. Is it ever fair to question the players toughness like that?

DB: No, it's not fair unless you know exactly what it is. And I think at this point there's varying degrees of when MCL tear or sprain can be. In essence, it's the same thing. An MCL sprain means you tore your MCL to some degree. In some cases I know players that have torn an MCL and been out for six weeks. In some cases it's four weeks. In some cases it's two. And sometimes you're able to fight through and play. None of us know exactly what is, nobody except Jay Cutler and the Bears training staff. So it's nothing that any of us have the right to comment on because we just don't know.

SC: Did you play this season with a sprained MCL?

DB: I did, I did.

SC: And will that require surgery in the off-season or is that something that heals on its own?

DB: No, it heals on its own. I think there might be the most severe cases where there might be some kind of repair that would require surgery but in the majority of cases it's something that just heals on its own.

LINK

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If that's true then Drew is even more badass then we originally thought.

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Drew was doing a radio inteview today(didn't catch with who) and when questioned about Evans' staement did not deny the extent of the injury. In typical Brees fashion he attempted to downplay the effort and guts it took to perform for weeks with a painful injury. Wouldn't trade him for anyone.

Drew would play hooked up to a dialysis machine if he had to!

So why did Brees suck the second half of the season too with all the INT's?


And when I say suck, I mean as far as picks go, Brees is a genious at qb and I love him, but he had WAY too many INT's

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Drew would play hooked up to a dialysis machine if he had to!

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He will never let the backup in the game.