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Tuesday morning Quarterback (Original Post) milestogo Sep 2023 OP
Yeah, that does look like a torn Achilles True Dough Sep 2023 #1
My pleasure. milestogo Sep 2023 #2
Artificial turf in the Meadowlands sidelined four of the 49ers a few years ago Auggie Sep 2023 #3
Rodgers has been playing on grass for 18 years: milestogo Sep 2023 #4
It could also be his plantaris tendon. Probatim Sep 2023 #5
I looked Rebl2 Sep 2023 #6
That is correct. I learned that at the time of the tear. Probatim Sep 2023 #8
Its the Achilles tendon, which completely snapped. milestogo Sep 2023 #7
Explains why a dude at the Sports Medicine clinic today asked me if my injury maxsolomon Sep 2023 #9
Yeah its a bummer milestogo Sep 2023 #10

True Dough

(20,350 posts)
1. Yeah, that does look like a torn Achilles
Tue Sep 12, 2023, 09:15 AM
Sep 2023

Gone for the season, if so.

Thanks for beating me at fantasy once again, milestogo!

milestogo

(17,904 posts)
2. My pleasure.
Tue Sep 12, 2023, 09:24 AM
Sep 2023



Probably a career-ending injury. If Rodgers still had this guy to protect him, it wouldn't have happened.


Auggie

(31,807 posts)
3. Artificial turf in the Meadowlands sidelined four of the 49ers a few years ago
Tue Sep 12, 2023, 10:06 AM
Sep 2023

It was 2020 and S.F. was playing the Jets. Nick Bosa, Jimmy Garoppolo, Raheem Mostert, and Solomon Thomas all suffered leg injuries.

Then there's this:

The turf from that game was finally replaced THIS year with MetLife getting new turf in March. The Monday night game between the Bills and Jets was just the second regular-season game played on the new turf following the Cowboys 40-0 win over the Giants on Sunday. Although there weren't any major injuries in that game, the Rodgers injury could lead the NFL to take a closer look at the new turf.

LINK: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-ex-teammate-calls-out-nfl-after-jets-qb-gets-injured-vs-bills-im-sick-of-this/


They've been playing on that crap for three years? C'mon NFL ...



Fortunately, no 49er games are scheduled in N.Y. for 2023.

milestogo

(17,904 posts)
4. Rodgers has been playing on grass for 18 years:
Tue Sep 12, 2023, 10:18 AM
Sep 2023

Last edited Wed Sep 13, 2023, 04:17 PM - Edit history (1)

From 2007 until 2018, the playing surface used the Desso GrassMaster system, which has synthetic fibers woven into the traditional Kentucky bluegrass sod. In 2018, the Grassmaster surface was replaced with polyethylene-based SIS Grass. Even the new video boards, installed in 2004, have been influenced by the field's nickname, being called "Tundra Vision". These video displays measure more than 25 feet (7.6 m) high by 46 feet (14 m) wide.

An artificial lighting system, based on technology used in Dutch rose-growing greenhouses, was tested in 2010 and purchased for use in the 2011 season. It operates 24 hours a day from October to early December to extend the growing season for the field's grass. The system is also used in some soccer stadiums where shade from stands and partial roofs are a problem for the turf, not the cold and short growing season found in Green Bay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambeau_Field

Probatim

(3,023 posts)
5. It could also be his plantaris tendon.
Tue Sep 12, 2023, 10:54 AM
Sep 2023

I snapped mine while playing ultimate frisbee about 10-12 years ago. My fellow players heard it snap and saw me fall to the ground - the noise and my reaction made a few think I got shot.

If it's that, he's in much better shape than a torn achilles. There is no surgery for the plantaris.

Probatim

(3,023 posts)
8. That is correct. I learned that at the time of the tear.
Tue Sep 12, 2023, 12:12 PM
Sep 2023

The surgeon I saw lost his during a long weekend of drinking - he said he rolled over in bed on a Sunday morning, stretched, and popped his. He said it wasn't his finest moment.

milestogo

(17,904 posts)
7. Its the Achilles tendon, which completely snapped.
Tue Sep 12, 2023, 11:22 AM
Sep 2023

Last edited Tue Sep 12, 2023, 02:06 PM - Edit history (1)




This is a very painful injury.

maxsolomon

(35,075 posts)
9. Explains why a dude at the Sports Medicine clinic today asked me if my injury
Tue Sep 12, 2023, 01:00 PM
Sep 2023

was an Achilles' tendon.

Luckily, it is "just" a ruptured Baker's Cyst.

Not a Roger's fan, but sorry to see his career end like that.

Pretty expensive hit for the Jets - all that guaranteed money...

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