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But your storyline fits your hatred for the Jets, so by all means carry on.
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with all that's taken place over the past few years regarding head injuries in the NFL, once you've gotten a few concussions, your career is basically hanging by a thread. therefore, a history of concussions (even one) will reduce the value of an NFL player.
so simply having this thing classified as a concussion probably reduces Revis's value somewhat. missing a game because of it would likely reduce it a bit more.
of course, he'll get huge money either way -- we're talking about relative pennies here -- but missing this game would make him less valuable, not more.
on the other hand, every game he plays he risks getting another concussion, or another type of injury, which could reduce his value much more drastically.
so, IF he's looking at it from purely a money perspective (I'm not convinced he is, but that seems to be your assumption), he and his advisers would still be needing to weigh the benefits and the risks. the best case scenario from a money point of veiw is to play and not get injured. the second best is to not play. the worst is to play and get hurt more. it's not a totally clear choice.
I'm guessing he plays -- which will prove you wrong. if he doesn't play, it will be because docs didn't clear him, and we'll probably never know whether he was truly not fit to play, or whether he voluntarily gave the docs answers that he knew would lead to them not clearing him.
by the way, none of this would be about sending a message to the Jets about being unhappy with his contract, IMO. If he's cleared, he'll play. The question is, will he try to be cleared, or try not to be cleared. He's not going to overtly make this about contract -- that would severely reduce his value on the open market, plus it would make him a pariah with fans (which in turn, reduces his value when it comes to negotiations).
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If doesn't want to play, it would be easy enough for him to fake symptoms and not be cleared.
With the protocols as cautious as they are now, being cleared basically means he feels fine. If he's cleared, he'll play.
Revis and his agent have very little to gain by him starting on Sunday and a major amount to lose if indeed he's got some trepidation. Not exactly grassy-knoll caliber controversy here.
But you will just assume its based on Revis not wanting to risk injury after he has been medically cleared.
Typical SAR.
You are a caricature of all things wrong with sports fans.
again, I'm guessing this won't happen. I think he's cleared and plays.
edit: by the way, if he does it the way you're suggestion he will, he risks it being leaked out that he was actually cleared, but opted not to play.
Last edited by gaffneycatch; 09-12-2012 at 06:00 PM.
My theory, ooh, so hard to fathom, is that an expensive player with a history of money-centric selfish behavior will have a decision to make. There are three potential outcomes:
Doctor clears him, he plays.
Doctor clears him, he doesn't play.
Doctor doesn't clear him, he doesn't play.
If he were some mid-tier player with nothing much to lose he'd suit up and play, of course. But he's the best player at his position, he's feeling underpaid, and he's already playing this season begrudgingly, under protest. Since concussions are cumulative injuries, should he play at Pittsburgh, take another hit to the head (God forbid) and get a full-on concussion that hurts him financially.
My son plays Pop Warner, and if he took a shot to the head and the doctors said he could play, I'm sitting him on Sunday, giving him two full weeks to heal just as a precaution. And I'm just a dad, not a 27 year old player with one contract left worth multiple millions on a team that's not very good and has shown him disrespect (in his mind) the past two seasons.
What I'm saying is a possibility. That's it. A possibility.
All players take a baseline test in training camp! If you get diagnosed with a concussion of any kind you will be administered the test again. You get evaluated against how you did when you took the test healthy in training camp. If you score the same or higher you get cleared to play....
Hopefully Revis tanked the test in training camp!
Instead they'll say "We spoke to the doctor and to Darrelle and both Darrelle and the New York Jets feel it's best if he takes this week off and heals fully, don't want to lose him for half the season and rush him back to soon."
again, it's really just semantics about the process...and who knows, maybe you're correct...I just think he'd probably tell the docs he still had a headache or something, rather than get cleared and then say he doesn't want to play.
like I've said all the way through, I think your whole premise is wrong.
and by the way, no matter what the Jets say officially, there's a good chance that if Revis is cleared, then opts not to play, it would leak out somehow. that info getting out actually helps the Jets in negotiations with him -- so they'd probably want it to leak, even if they don't want to officially throw him under the bus.
Everyone's naive and he won't risk it. Statement of fact.Naive? It's naive to think that Revis and his agent won't sit this week out even if he gets clearance. His next contract is the most important, they won't risk it.
You'd be incredibly impressed if he played. Covering your ass in case your statement of fact is wrong.
So which one is it?


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While disappointed, Pruitt was pleased with how his team finished the year. The Eagles clobbered Cupertino 44-20 Saturday – a week after blanking Lynbrook 30-0 – to take third in the SCVAL El Camino Division at 3-2.
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Although Los Altos posted a better record than several squads that advanced to CCS, it lacked the necessary power points – based not only on wins but strength of schedule – to qualify.
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The host Eagles fell behind 13-0 in Saturday's finale, but they scored the next 30 points to take a comfortable lead by halftime.
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(Photo credit: Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Thomas McRae Jr., 19, a Cheyney University student, D.C. native and foster child who went through 22 homes before being adopted, is interning on Capitol Hill for Sen. Ben Cardin as part of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's Foster Youth Internship program.
Thomas McRae wore the summer intern's uniform — khaki blazer and bright blue bow tie — as he sat hunched over a computer screen in Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin's office, typing a policy memo.
What set the rising junior at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania apart from the legions of overachieving interns on Capitol Hill this summer were the deficits he had overcome to get there, and where he overcame them — four miles east of the Capitol on the other side of the Anacostia River in the District's struggling Lincoln Heights neighborhood.
He can recite the dates he entered and left each of 22 homes growing up after he was abandoned by his mother. In one, he suffered a gunshot wound. In another, his foster mother told him that he was lazy and "would never make it."
She was wrong. McRae, 20, has excelled in a program that brings youths who grew up in foster or adoptive homes together with members of Congress. The goal of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's program is to encourage interns to help formulate policy and to educate others on where they've come from.
McRae chose to pursue an issue more identified with combat veterans than foster children: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But as a veteran foster child, it's something he's intimately familiar with.
"Sometimes I look in the mirror and reflect on everything I've gone through, and this all just feels like a dream to me," he said.
McRae's mother abandoned him as a month-old infant and left him with a man she called his father, who was fighting colon cancer. Because of his illness, he put McRae in the homes of acquaintances, 11 in all. Once, in 2004, when McRae was 10, he called his father and asked to be removed from a home because he was afraid he would be shot.
The next day, as he lay on the sofa in the living room, the 14-year-old grandson of his caretaker accidentally discharged a shotgun in a bedroom. Pellets burst through the wall and struck McRae in the shoulder and back.
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The shooting got him placed in the District's foster-care system. But his struggles were far from over.
His biological mother was contacted and offered custody of her son. She declined. A DNA test also revealed that the man who McRae thought was his father was in fact no relation. The revelation ended their relationship. "I never saw him again," McRae said.
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After beginning therapy in foster care, McRae was given a diagnosis of PTSD, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He attributes his PTSD to the night he was hit by the shotgun pellets and still has dreams in which he's shot.
A few words about the Boys' Town group home in which McRae '..felt as if he was living in a real home.... 'The Geters (teaching-parents) are my mother and father figure,' he said. 'I would give up my life for them.'"
This group home (the Teaching-Family Model) was developed based on research supported by the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) of NIH as part of a program initiative to provide effective, humane, cost-efficient community-based care for problem behavior and troubled children and youth. It has been successfully adapted for autistic children and youth, the developmentally challenged, emotionally disturbed children and youth and adults with serious, chronic mental illnesses, mostly schizophrenia.
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In the early 80s D.C. almost made the Teaching-Family model the model for group care of children and youth in the District. What a wonderful advance that would have been -- bringing the best of loving and science to D.C. children and youth. That advance is still a possibility today. What's required is to put the welfare of children first and to that end bring the best of caring, science and evaluation group home programming to the young people. They deserve nothing less.