ckparrothead
Premium Member
Too bad. He mounted a good campaign to get his LT spot back, but probably will not see much football for the rest of his career now.
He tore it in his RIGHT knee this time...as opposed to the LEFT knee last year. Not to be cruel but this does make me glad that we pulled the trigger on moving Mark Dixon to LT because, if we counted on Smith this year we would all the sudden be facing the same situation as last year when Spriggs tore his ACL. I am not one that believes injuries are a freak matter of chance. I think injuries are directly related to how hard your body is being pushed and how you play the game. To me tearing his right ACL only shows that he's not a player that plays the game in a way to where he can stay injury free and keep it at a high level. If he started at LT for us it would only have been a matter of time before he injured something, IMO and that would cause some continuity problems along the line.
I'm wondering now however, what this means for our OL in terms of who gets kept. I think it may mean Anthony Cesario makes this team now. Or maybe we bring in a veteran...is John Fina still available and can he play RT?
He tore it in his RIGHT knee this time...as opposed to the LEFT knee last year. Not to be cruel but this does make me glad that we pulled the trigger on moving Mark Dixon to LT because, if we counted on Smith this year we would all the sudden be facing the same situation as last year when Spriggs tore his ACL. I am not one that believes injuries are a freak matter of chance. I think injuries are directly related to how hard your body is being pushed and how you play the game. To me tearing his right ACL only shows that he's not a player that plays the game in a way to where he can stay injury free and keep it at a high level. If he started at LT for us it would only have been a matter of time before he injured something, IMO and that would cause some continuity problems along the line.
I'm wondering now however, what this means for our OL in terms of who gets kept. I think it may mean Anthony Cesario makes this team now. Or maybe we bring in a veteran...is John Fina still available and can he play RT?