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Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19
I assume a lot of these injuries were from not getting down when running the ball? Or were they in the pocket?
He definitely has to learn how to take care of himself out there all the time, Gruden was big on that during his show.
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A lot of it is due to never quitting on plays. Throwing shoulder injury against Kansas was on a 40 yard run. Instead of sliding, some guy came from behind to tackle him and drove him into the ground...100% of both guys' weight landed on Pat's throwing shoulder.
Knee injury against TCU in 2015 was on a great scramble where he was diving for the end zone. No one knows exactly what that injury was, possibly a hyperextension? I couldn't believe he finished that game. He was limping really, really bad. The guy was pretty much on one leg in that game and he still managed to battle a top ranked TCU team all the way down the wire. Defense gave up a tip-ball TD and TCU barely beat us at the very end. He kept dealing with this injury the rest of the year and you can find him limping in other games on the 2015 game film if you really dig into it.
He had a concussion in 2014 as a freshman that wasn't really his fault. Got lit up on a designed run play and either OL or RB missed a block. Pat didn't see the hit coming and the dude knocked the living crap out of him.
He had a number of runs in his career where he would lower his shoulder into people and you cringe every damn time he does it. One of them was against Iowa State in 2016. Another was a block that he laid out for our RB against Arkansas in 2015. It was an incredible play by Pat, but also very dangerous for your star QB to put his body on the line like that. He absolutely has to learn to be more conservative with his body, even if he stays aggressive as hell in his passing decisions, etc.