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Originally Posted by Halfcan
Johnson optimistically said he will be ready for camp in April, and he is not backing down a month later. "I'm on track, just like last time," Johnson said. "I never want to put a date on when I'm going to be 100 percent. But will I be at camp? I can say that, yeah."
DJ completely disagrees with you.
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Yeah, because aging athletes never have unrealistic expectations of their own abilities.
You can't really be serious here. These guys have never really known failure and selection bias favors healthy players playing late into their careers. By and large, the guys that even make the league are guys that managed to stay damn healthy longer than most.
They aren't doctors, they aren't even trainers. The least reliable narrator in that room is ALWAYS the injured player. They always believe they're going to bounce back 100% (at least publicly). Bouncing back and being productive is all they've ever known so of course that's what they're going to expect to happen yet again. Sadly, they have to get beat over the head with their athletic mortality before they come to understand otherwise.
Derrick Johnson is a soon to be 35 year old LBer who has a ton of games on the odometer and was slowing down significantly BEFORE he suffered one of the worst injuries an older athlete can suffer. Seriously, you're completely insane if you're just going to take his standard old 'proud warrior' proclamations at face value.