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02-19-2013, 01:58 PM #38Pro Bowl Poster
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02-19-2013, 02:42 PM #39Hall Of Fame Poster
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02-19-2013, 03:33 PM #41
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02-19-2013, 03:37 PM #42
Re: Webb Recovery Time and Long-Term Prospects
You're correct in that I forgot about Graham. Doesn't change anything else that I posted, he and Smith should be in the mix to be the starter opposite Webb. You don't move an all-pro caliber CB to Safety because of fan speculation/sentiment. He came back fine from the last one, and you give him the chance to do the same here. Unless he proves that he can't go at CB, you don't move him. And let's be honest, Foxworth was an aberration. The norm nowadays is for players to come back just as good as they were pre-injury.
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02-19-2013, 04:25 PM #43Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Webb Recovery Time and Long-Term Prospects
I guess my point is we as fans don't know what the Ravens will do? I'm assume they will do what is best for the player and the team. To rule out Webb being moved to S with Reed possibly leaving isn't impossible. I don't know what they will do, nor do you. Are you Ozzie Newsome or one of those internet expert tough guys wishing he was GM? We are fans, not football executives. Webb could play both positions because he is a good football player period, but cause of his injury and the possibility of losing Ed Reed, it's not an impossible scenario. They did just win a SB with no Webb also. Forums are for opinions, I respect yours but don't act like your King of the Jungle. As Buck Showalter would say "they are a lot of moving parts" I am not advocating a move to Safety or staying a CB, we just don't know what will happen. Thier is free agency coming and the draft so it is a fluid situation.
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02-19-2013, 04:57 PM #44Hall Of Fame Poster
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Re: Webb Recovery Time and Long-Term Prospects
I don't know if I'd call it the "norm," and you claim Webb "came back fine from the last one," but it took him over a year. He never really looked 100% throughout all of 2010 after tearing his ACL in December 2009. Maybe he comes back faster from this one... maybe he doesn't. I just think people are too brazenly throwing caution to the wind and assuming that he'll have an Adrian Peterson-like recovery, when it's just as likely he doesn't come back 100% for a long while.
Obviously if Webb is 100% by opening day, then this whole discussion is probably moot, but the whole point of a temporary move to FS would be that the position would protect him from having to do things that he might not be ready to do AND reduce his chance of re-injury. Is Webb better as a 60% CB or 100% FS? And particularly given how miserably weak we are at FS next year and how comparatively strong at CB we are?
I think people think that Webb would somehow be hurt by moving to free safety for a year or half a year, but there is NO reason why Webb would be hurt by that. He was already being used in a semi-safety role in a lot of the nickel packages last year anyway. There's a reason why Webb plays inside in the nickel package, it's because he is better playing inside in space rather than on the boundary.
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02-19-2013, 05:06 PM #45Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Webb Recovery Time and Long-Term Prospects
You are correct, I remember Webb being interviewed and said it took him his second season back from the surgery to feel 100%, plus you have to wonder if he and the Ravens want to risk a reinjury. He might be the Ravens cover corner, but that doesnt help you if he gets hurt again or is limited or back to IR. 2 knee injuries in 3 years is a concern, IMO.
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02-19-2013, 05:14 PM #46
Re: Webb Recovery Time and Long-Term Prospects
The first one was non-contact.
On the second one, he ran into Dez Bryant after Bryant suddenly stopped running his route with Webb trailing right behind him. It almost looked like Bryant was trying to do a double move even though Webb was already behind him, which makes no sense but that's how it looked.
Webb's knee slammed into the back of Bryant's leg while Webb's foot was planted and his leg extended.
The first one was something of a freak injury, but the second one was Bryant doing something unexpected.
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02-19-2013, 05:23 PM #47Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Webb Recovery Time and Long-Term Prospects
Yes, i saw it on replay. It was very benign contact though. Nothing outrageous. It didnt even look like his knee even buckled or anything. It was flukey looking injury. I hope he isnt a great player with lifetime injury issues that would be a shame. It's nothing like what Ngata did to RGIII or other knee injuries that you normally see.
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02-19-2013, 10:16 PM #48
Re: Webb Recovery Time and Long-Term Prospects
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