I've started him every week on two teams that are now into the final four of the playoffs. He's been a solid RB2 which is all I can really ask for in this landscape. I can't say if I would have been better off trading him away or not obviously, but I'm not upset that I didn't.
You actually weren't "realistic" at all about the injury - unless you have some really strange definition of realistic. You brought up Jahvid Best, twice, because he was to miss one game before we had any information at all as to the severity.
I pointed to Jahvid Best because most were taking it too lightly, and brought his name up as a worst case scenario to remind people about what a serious thing concussion protocol is, especially if you miss game(s) from them. All I said in my initial claim was this is not good news, then it ramped up to our huge debate. You make it sound like I just into the thread and said, "Ware is going to never play again, just like Jahvid Best!"
I said that there is more risk in the future for Ware going forward with every concussion he sustains, and that his running style lends itself to more in the future. Laugh all you want, but next season I consider this as part of my analysis. I see far too many posters say things like, "Concussion is not like a hamstring, once you are back on the field you are good as new!" Even a cursory approach to researching concussions shows that standpoint just simply isn't the case, and is
unrealistic. Jahvid Best just proves that over time many concussions add up and now Ware has sustained a serious one so that should be factored in. If he didn't miss a game it would be less of an issue.
And I never said Ware was going to never play again like Best, but I do respect the doctors that say he is more likely to get more concussions because of it, having had a serious enough one that he missed a game. Concussions also slow down processing of the brain, which is a handicap for RBs that need to make split second reads off instinct. Keep in mind that there are many ex football players that are suffering the long term effects of brain trauma, and the NFL is trying to settle this for 1 billion dollars. It's not a small thing, and you would be refusing research that point to long and short term effects of brain function abnormally after sustaining serious concussions to think otherwise.
But all this above is just theory, bottom line is result speak for themselves. You might disagree with my theory as to why Ware has fallen from RB1 (top5) status to now RB2/RB3 status after the concussion, but then you were arguing theories about why we should not take the concussion seriously at the time and were promoting him as a sure fire performer going forward at the RB1 level, even after he got back from concussion. So since you were so disastrously wrong about those claims, and I was right about what really happened, are we now supposed to believe you are right about the why's of what happened?
It seems more logical to follow someone that was right about the results, and take his reasoning as to the why's with more weight and credibility. After all, you were so wrong about the results, why would we now give any credence to your theories about why it happened? Before you were telling us why Ware was going to be just fine, and a top RB going forward.
I advised to pick up West as a handcuff when JC went to Dr. Andrews. I also pointed out his snap counts were significant. I never said he was a threat to take Ware's starting role. It is funny thought that Ware's concussion occurred 3-4 days after I advised picking up West as a handcuff. Was that bad advice?
