Redskins Training Camp Thread wk 1

Looks good to me all around. Looking for Jenkins to come out swinging after his suspension. Dude needs to prove his draft position, contract, etc. etc. In the meantime we have some pretty interesting options at LDE and NT moving guys around.

On other news...may this be the season Rak achieves elite status :)

Brian Orakpo Unveils New 'Bane' Facemask | ThePostGame (http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/style-points/201307/brian-orakpo-unveils-new-bane-facemask)

That mask isn't as bad as I feared, luckily.


In other news: RG3 says he will wear knee brace all season | Comcast SportsNet Washington (http://www.csnwashington.com/football-washington-redskins/talk/rg3-says-he-will-wear-knee-brace-all-season)

Your forgetting Jason Reid and Mark Mase

looking at the insider on wapo, there's no articles by reid there. and maske was supposed to be the NFL writer, not the skins writer, but i guess there's a ton of both on the site.

I really like this move by ESPN. I guess he's going to be exclusively working on Skins pieces? I'm also a fan of Graziano, so I'm not sure how that's going to work out, but regardless I like Keim and Graziano, so hopefully this is good for both of them. How is this going to work in conjunction with ESPN(city)? We're not going to get our own ESPN-Washington, are we? Or does this mean every NFL team is going to get their own insider? And final question, does this mean we're going to have to pay to read Keim, like he's going to do a lot of Insider pieces for ESPN?

Basically. Hope so too. Not likely to happen anytime soon. Yes. Probably

Count out Joe Mays he signed with the Texans.

That mask isn't as bad as I feared, luckily.


In other news: RG3 says he will wear knee brace all season | Comcast SportsNet Washington (http://www.csnwashington.com/football-washington-redskins/talk/rg3-says-he-will-wear-knee-brace-all-season)

Last line of the Griffin article:

“I don’t really worry about my leg anymore,” he said. “Consistently I forget my brace. Like I did on the first day and everybody made a big deal about that. I feel great.”

in a related note: yesterday morning on SiriusXM, the announcers were hyping the upcoming guest (an orthopedic doctor who has done work with the Rams), and was teasing it by saying that the doctor disagrees with how the Redskins were handling Griffin's return. But once he got on, he basically deferred to the attending physicians, but what I thought was interesting was that his timeline really was about where Griffin seems to be at. He said that his patients would begin cutting and heavy work at the 6 month mark, which would have been June, and at 9 months would basically be good to go, but that it would take another several months for the player to have confidence in his leg. Well, Griffin just has that confidence already, and if he doesn't take a snap in preseason, basically will have gone 8 1/2 to 9 months from surgery to game action. The whole interview just made me feel better about how the Skins and Griffin are approaching this.

Last line of the Griffin article:



in a related note: yesterday morning on SiriusXM, the announcers were hyping the upcoming guest (an orthopedic doctor who has done work with the Rams), and was teasing it by saying that the doctor disagrees with how the Redskins were handling Griffin's return. But once he got on, he basically deferred to the attending physicians, but what I thought was interesting was that his timeline really was about where Griffin seems to be at. He said that his patients would begin cutting and heavy work at the 6 month mark, which would have been June, and at 9 months would basically be good to go, but that it would take another several months for the player to have confidence in his leg. Well, Griffin just has that confidence already, and if he doesn't take a snap in preseason, basically will have gone 8 1/2 to 9 months from surgery to game action. The whole interview just made me feel better about how the Skins and Griffin are approaching this.

I would guess having gone through this before must give him an advantage especially mentally.

I would guess having gone through this before must give him an advantage especially mentally.

How many times can a knee take an ACL injury before it becomes too many? I'm not trying to inject doom into this thread; I really want to know.

How many times can a knee take an ACL injury before it becomes too many? I'm not trying to inject doom into this thread; I really want to know.

No idea.

Sometimes all it takes is one.

There's no magic number.

Last line of the Griffin article:



in a related note: yesterday morning on SiriusXM, the announcers were hyping the upcoming guest (an orthopedic doctor who has done work with the Rams), and was teasing it by saying that the doctor disagrees with how the Redskins were handling Griffin's return. But once he got on, he basically deferred to the attending physicians, but what I thought was interesting was that his timeline really was about where Griffin seems to be at. He said that his patients would begin cutting and heavy work at the 6 month mark, which would have been June, and at 9 months would basically be good to go, but that it would take another several months for the player to have confidence in his leg. Well, Griffin just has that confidence already, and if he doesn't take a snap in preseason, basically will have gone 8 1/2 to 9 months from surgery to game action. The whole interview just made me feel better about how the Skins and Griffin are approaching this.

He's had no OTA reps, no pre season games and they're not even letting him do 11 on 11. What's he doing to get himself ready to play 16 games? 7 on 7 and little throwing drills on the side? To me that's going overboard on the side of caution. I expect him to be rusty the first few weeks. We're still talking about a very young player, not an established vet. They should at least let the kid do 11 on 11, which is the closest thing to a game simulation.

I'm just not a fan that worries about Griffs knee like many do. I mean if he tears it again then what? Does the world end? It's sports, I'm hoping he never does get injured again but u cant sit and worry about it all season.