DJ still expects to be ready for camp

[Halfcan]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

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.

Jeez you act like he was some scrub before he got hurt and now DJ should just retire or even amputate Both legs.

And Yes- I do take what DJ says at face value. He once said he would make sure the Boys and Girls club in my neighborhood had new equipment for the kids. He personally made it happen and was there to spend the whole day installing it with us. His word is Gold in my opinion.

It is HIS body, HIS career and HE says he will be at camp- not once, but twice now. I will take HIS word over a posters on CP every time.

[The Franchise]

This thread has gone well. I guess hindsight really is 50/50.

[FloridaMan88]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

This thread has gone well. I guess hindsight really is 50/50.

This thread needed some juice after you posted two day old news.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

This thread needed some juice after you posted two day old news.

I'm sure we can let slide to the bottom and get back to the Alex Smith vs. Patrick Mahomes discussion that is going in circles.

[raybec 4]

I opened this thread thinking it was about DJLN. He has just as good a shot at going to camp healthy as Derrick Johnson does.

[Baby Lee]

Who cares. Wegoddakyewbee!! Whee!!

[Sandy Vagina]

Awesome! Instead of being 7th worst in run defense, maybe we can be 10th worst!

Get well soon!

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by Sandy Cheeks

Awesome! Instead of being 7th worst in run defense, maybe we can be 10th worst!

Get well soon!

Who's this we you speak of?

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Sandy Cheeks

Awesome! Instead of being 7th worst in run defense, maybe we can be 10th worst!

Get well soon!

Am I the only one who is optimistic that our new NT will help in that area? I mean, I loved having Poe in there a few years ago, but he has declined in the last couple of seasons. Still, I will admit that I wish we had gone out and gotten a ILB to replace March or Wilson.

[BossChief]

Originally Posted by Lzen

Am I the only one who is optimistic that our new NT will help in that area? I mean, I loved having Poe in there a few years ago, but he has declined in the last couple of seasons. Still, I will admit that I wish we had gone out and gotten a ILB to replace March or Wilson.

They did.

The kid they drafted has a very high upside.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

Chiefs ILB Derrick Johnson (Achilles') still expects to be ready for training camp.

The 34-year-old ruptured his left Achilles' in December. 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." Even if he is "ready," Johnson will likely take it easy early in camp, but there does not appear to be any concern about his Week 1 status.

I love DJ. Still going hard after it. Never quits

[TigeRRUppeRRcut]

The only thing that has me optimistic that he can be productive his last year despite two repaired Achilles tendons is that Ray Lewis overcame crazy shit too... Deer Antler spray or not

[BossChief]

Doesn't seem legit.

An Achilles takes a year, usually...doesn't it?

I mean maybe he lesrned some tricks in recovering from his first Achilles tear, but it tore late in the year.

I highly doubt he ever plays again, but I'd be thrilled if he does.

He deserves to go on at least one more big run.

[raybec 4]

Originally Posted by BossChief

Doesn't seem legit.

An Achilles takes a year, usually...doesn't it?

I mean maybe he lesrned some tricks in recovering from his first Achilles tear, but it tore late in the year.

I highly doubt he ever plays again, but I'd be thrilled if he does.

He deserves to go on at least one more big run.

I'm sure there are varying degrees of a torn/ruptured Achilles. Maybe this one wasn't that serious.

[BossChief]

Originally Posted by raybec 4

I'm sure there are varying degrees of a torn/ruptured Achilles. Maybe this one wasn't that serious.

That would be nice. In a perfect world, we get 1 last year of vintage DJ where he can help get his replacement ready by showing him how a true pro goes about his business throughout a whole season.