DJ still expects to be ready for camp

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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.