A specialist says Burrow's injury is career altering
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joe Burrow <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bengals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bengals</a> injury update <br><br>Burrow suffered a season-ending right scapholunate ligament tear in his throwing wrist on November 16, 2023 against the Baltimore Ravens. <br><br>Initially it was speculated that it was a TFCC complex tear, but unfortunately it was worse, the dreaded… <a href="https://t.co/QlNIsTvtme">pic.twitter.com/QlNIsTvtme</a></p>&mdash; Jesse Morse, MD (@DrJesseMorse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJesseMorse/status/1764437248131354667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Joe Burrow #Bengals injury update

Burrow suffered a season-ending right scapholunate ligament tear in his throwing wrist on November 16, 2023 against the Baltimore Ravens.

Initially it was speculated that it was a TFCC complex tear, but unfortunately it was worse, the dreaded scapholunate ligament complex tear.

This ligament is very important for the stability of the wrist, and since this/most ligaments have a poor blood supply it needed to be repaired.

I asked an orthopedic hand surgeon colleague his thoughts on this injury as it pertains to Burrow and here was his response:

“It’s a bad injury to have, invariably always lead to some instability over time and arthritis at an earlier age.

80% of normal strength and range of motion is common.

Hard to do ‘dart throwers motion,’ which is important for snapping the wrist in the follow through when throwing.

But these guys are super human, so I’m sure he’ll be fine.”

Did this injury change his career forever?

“Yes, for sure.

For context, he’s the only pro qb I’ve heard of with this, so it’s hard to gauge.”

Use this information as you wish.

He should be cleared to throw by mid-May, on par with OTAs, which is on track assuming no setbacks.

Will he ever be the same QB he was before the injury? Unfortunately we don’t know, although I can say he is at increased risk for new compensating injuries.

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Curse of the OBJ

That backup they had played well.

Good thing they have Browning.

Might have another Andrew Luck on our hands.

It would absolutely suck to have your favorite team dig their way out of the basement with a pretty damn good QB only to have this happen.

Interesting

deep ball will never be the same, is what i read

Colonel Steve Austin does not approve this thread. :)

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It sucks for him as a human, butt **** the bungles

You mean getting sacked 50 times a year is bad?

"Our window is my entire career"

Pink wearing dick humping fraud

He’ll go his entire career without a fourth quarter TD pass.

So he's likely not going to be able to fulfill his obligation of single handedly ending our dynasty and riding off into downtown New Orleans next year with the Super Bowl MVP and a cig hanging out of his mouth while simultaneously being named the new king of the football universe like Bengals fans have been telling me is going to happen for 6 months now?

Outside of Chiefs fans, everyone wants that.

Seriously, if his career does take a sharp downturn and he continues to struggle with health, I'm not sure the organization ever recovers.

It'll be way worse than Indy without Luck.

real talk though, invest in a left tackle

even with a damn good LT Mahomes was taking hard shots almost every game

we already learned this the easy way (twice), don't learn it the hard way

Oh man. That’s just awfulolololololol

Meh, i'll believe it when i see it.

Clayster, what do you do at LT?

Just get the fattest guy that can stand up and pay him rookie min

Alt

Burrow might be better then this report we'll have to see.

Eggplant emoji X eleventy billion.

Go ahead and lay out how you're getting the chance to draft him.

Clay apparently thinks we should be trading 3 1's or a package of like 10 picks.

As long as we have Mahomes...our future picks aren't worth that much.

Is this the same twitter specialist who said Mahomes was ****ed after hurting his ankle?

The 2nd half of that is all you need to know... attention grabbing opinion to be taken with a grain of salt followed by an ad.

The son of one the best players during the Martyball era protecting Mahomes.

This sucks if true and it reduces his abilities.

The NFL doesn't have enough good QBs as it is now.

so we have chad pennington 2.0

well that was dumb. High ankle sprains are very common and players obviously come back from that all the time

I can't seem to find that news on Bengals forums? :shrug:

Maybe they ban bad news about Joe.

It has Aiden O'Connell

This seems to be a bunch of nothing, too, at least in terms of this guy's opinion since he doesn't really have one. In a matter of a few sentences...

It's bad, always leads to issues.
I'm sure he'll be fine.
Oh, it's career altering.
And he's the first, so who knows.

LMAO

ROFL

Yikes. He of zero completed passes in the 2nd half against y'all.

two 1s, a 2 and a 3 oughta do it

He will retire 3-1 all-time against Mahomes.

If accurate then he picked a great time to have signed his contract.

It is written in the stars.

You are not going from 32 into the top 5 for that.

7th or 8th pick in the draft - look at the value chart and tell i'm wrong

What team wants to trade all the way back to 32?

Just because it adds up in numbers doesn't mean shit. What team in the top 10 is moving back down to 32 and getting low picks everywhere else? Especially for a LT prospect like Alt?

im no expert, but with hippa (sorry, spelling) laws, im not so sure we should be reporting on grown Kevin McCallistors' ultimate demise so fast.
if it's just some talking heads' attempt at clicks, we're just jumping teh gun and all.
if this is actual facts then carry on, what the hell do i know......

Meh. These twitter docs have been super wrong before. Unless it's coming from his or the Bengals camp, I'm not putting a lot of stock into it.

FOR WHO?

Looked like the writer is taking an opportunity to let to potential buyers of his business know it's for sale:

"Well I am happy to announce that we have decided to put The Fantasy Doctors up for sale."

Wouldn't put much, if any, stock in it.

Luckily, they have Browning, who played just about as well as Burrow did while he was out.

They'll be fine. Not much drop off.

I've often wondered what would have happened had the Colonel hit an icy patch or slipped on a banana peel doing about 60 mph...

I'm never giving up that much to move up for a Left Tackle...there's enough serviceable guys out there that can get the job done until you're in the position to draft one.

Now you want to talk about giving that up to move up to get an elite playmaker? Different conversation...

carson palmer 2.0

Chiefs Kingdumb is just begging for a Mahomes injury

with no Superbowls...

Although he's not the first to discuss. I shared several post in the Bengals forum that are worried about this over a month ago.

He will bounce back, the Bengals are lucky since he joined the team.

We won Super Bowls with Eric Fisher, Orlando Brown Jr., and Donovan Smith as our LTs....but yeah, let's mortgage the future because you're scared of something that literally can happen on any play by anyone being beat.

Brilliant.

Grip strength is gone and fumbles are more likely

If a first this year and next can get us up to pick Fashanu, we should do it.

Hes going to be a hell of a pass protecting LT, IMO. I don't think that's likely, but it would absolutely be worth the phone call.

You're not thinking long term.

Mahomes sustained a nearly devastating injury with Orlando at LT and Donovan Smith was good enough that Mahomes endured the 2nd-most QB hits in the NFL last season.

The long term focus should be protecting Mahomes as much as possible. If the Chiefs have spotty left tackle play over the next 10 years it drastically reduces the chances of Mahomes catching Brady.

If you don't want Mahomes to end up like Montana you secure LT right now. Patrick is nearing the age where injuries will be harder to overcome. An ounce of prevention....

Until proven otherwise, I expect Burrow to be a very good player. That would be a tough pill to swallow for the Bengals if he’s not able to play at his usual level of performance. They paid him $45 million last year in a lost season, and they’re paying him $65 million for the 2024 season.

a lot of the hits are on mahomes though, he holds the ball a long time sometimes.

I doubt the validity of this report, but if true it’s terrible news for the nfl. The league needs as many betas as it can line up in front of Alpha Pat for the next 10-15 years and Joe is/was one of the best of them.

As far as the protection conversation…

I’d have no problem if we were to trade 32, next years first and third to get one of the athletic LTs in this class.

The problem is…who is going to even entertain that kind of deal and move back that far?

It’s a 2 fold problem.

I honestly think the bigger problem was our WRs were so bad that Pat had to hold the ball more and that caused cracks in protection to become a bigger issue than they would be with better receivers.

The 49ers had a dude get injured during the SB while running onto the field.

Mahomes took some big shots in the Baltimore game that looked more dangerous than the hit taken against Jacksonville in the playoffs last year.

He got hurt during a QB sneak of all things.

Trent Green took a cheap shot and was injured while Orlando Pace was his LT.

I'd love for us to have the best pass blockers around Mahomes to minimize big hits, but he could get injured doing literally anything on the field. Its a dangerous sport.

Think I'd rather have Browning than Burrow at those numbers.

That was my take as well....

I think people forget that Mahomes is simply different from everyone else - and that goes for his training regimen as well. Mahomes trains to lessen the likelihood of sustaining an injury, not necessarily to become a traditional physical freak (see Dad bod). If you watched the quarterback show on Netflix, they highlighted how unique his training is compared to other players in the NFL. The dude literally had his kneecap on the side of his leg- and it wasn't a season ending injury.

Do I want him protected? Absolutely. But there are different ways to go about doing that--either by getting him elite protection so he has more time if he has to hold onto the ball, getting him elite weapons so that he doesn't have to hold onto the ball for so long, or both of those options would be ideal.

2021 was the intersection of elite receiver play and spotty LT play

Defenses can always force a QB to hold the ball.

We would benefit a lot more from Mahomes being able to hold it with impunity.

Particularly since he likes to hold it.

they'll be fine since Burrow is a system QB

Tee Higgins is loving that franchise tag right about now.

Agreed. Let's not lose sight of the ball here. The first rule has to be to protect Mahomes. The team does not appear to have a LT starter under contract. I read that the only two LT expected to be drafted in the first round will go early.

Is the team going to go with a stop-gap measure like D. Smith again? Move our RT over despite his inexperience at the position? Draft a guard highly? What's the plan?

Once football jesus is protected, then we can talk about receivers and defense. Because if he goes down for any length of time the season is effectively over.

He was going to win zero Super Bowls with or without that injury.

Burrow-Luck podcast in a few short seasons

I am not normally a person who thinks 'mystical' thoughts or believes in superstition a whole lot...


But when the Bengals just let the Bills walk away and not insist that that playoff game was played I had a feeling both of those teams were gonna keep on living cursed existences...


The fact they just agreed to not play that game was a cosmic shift in universal energy that you dont **** with


IOW -- they ****ed around and found out, due to cosmic "entanglement"


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Seems bogus. Zilch on the Bengals board by the way

I'm a Notre Dame alum and have watched Alt play a lot. He is not worth that amount of trade compensation. He is very good, but he is not Orlando Pace/Joe Thomas/Willie Roaf good.

the Bengals definitely have some bad luck. Carson Palmer tearing his knee against the Steelers and now this. Both good QB's and pretty much the only really good ones they've had since the 80's or 90's.