Knee Sprain Recovery

I wanted to know standard evidence based practices for knee sprains since our Quarterback has a knee-sprain. So I asked A.I.

Teach me about the recovery process for a sprained knee. What is the recovery period?

"Got it—let’s focus strictly on evidence-based medical guidance for recovering from a sprained knee."

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"🧠 What Is a Knee Sprain?

"A knee sprain occurs when one or more of the ligaments in the knee are stretched or torn. The most commonly affected ligaments are:

• MCL (Medial Collateral Ligament) – inner knee
• LCL (Lateral Collateral Ligament) – outer knee
• ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) – center/front knee
• PCL (Posterior Cruciate Ligament) – center/back knee"

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"⏳ Recovery Timeline by Severity

Sprain Grade	Ligament Damage	Recovery Time
Grade I	Mild stretch	1–2 weeks
Grade II	Partial tear	3–6 weeks
Grade III	Complete tear	8+ weeks (may need surgery)"

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"✅ Standard Recovery Protocol

"1. Acute Phase (Days 1–7)

• Rest: Avoid weight-bearing activities.
• Ice: 15–20 minutes every 2–3 hours.
• Compression: Elastic bandage or knee sleeve.
• Elevation: Keep knee above heart level."

"2. Subacute Phase (Week 2–4)

• Gentle Movement: Begin range-of-motion exercises.
• Pain Management: NSAIDs (e.g., ibuprofen) if needed.
• Bracing: May be recommended for support."

"3. Rehabilitation Phase (Week 4+)

• Physical Therapy: Focus on strength, flexibility, and proprioception.
• Progressive Loading: Gradual return to walking, then sport-specific movements.
• Monitoring: Watch for instability, swelling, or pain recurrence."

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"🧩 When to See a Specialist

• Inability to bear weight after 48 hours
• Significant swelling or bruising
• Feeling of instability or 'giving way'
• Suspected Grade III sprain or ACL/PCL involvement"

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"If you’d like, I can walk you through a sample rehab routine tailored to a specific grade of sprain or help you assess symptoms to estimate severity."

What are standard sports rehabilitation best practices for knee sprains in the professional athlete?

"For professional athletes recovering from knee sprains, rehabilitation is a highly structured, evidence-based process designed to restore full function, minimize re-injury risk, and support return-to-play readiness. Here's a breakdown of current best practices drawn from clinical guidelines and sports medicine protocols:

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"🧠 Core Principles of Rehab for Knee Sprains

"1. Early Controlled Motion

• Avoid prolonged immobilization unless necessary for severe sprains.
• Begin passive and active range-of-motion exercises within days to prevent stiffness and promote healing."

"2. Cryotherapy & Inflammation Management

• Use ice therapy during the acute phase to reduce pain and swelling.
• NSAIDs may be used short-term, but not excessively, to avoid impairing tissue healing."

"3. Neuromuscular Re-education

• Incorporate balance, proprioception, and coordination drills early.
• Tools like wobble boards, single-leg stance, and dynamic stability exercises are key."

"4. Progressive Strength Training

• Target quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, and calf muscles.
• Emphasize eccentric control and closed-chain exercises (e.g., squats, step-downs).
• Avoid open-chain knee extension early on to reduce ligament strain."

"5. Functional Movement & Sport-Specific Drills

• Gradually reintroduce cutting, pivoting, and jumping mechanics.
• Use video analysis and force plate feedback when available to assess movement quality."

"6. Psychological Readiness

• Address fear of re-injury and build confidence through graded exposure and mental skills training.
• Use validated tools like the ACL-RSI scale for psychological assessment."

"7. Return-to-Play Criteria

• No pain or swelling
• Full range of motion and strength (ideally ≥90% of contralateral limb)
• Completion of sport-specific functional tests (e.g., hop tests, agility drills)
• Clearance from sports medicine team"

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"🧰 Advanced Modalities Often Used

• Manual Therapy: Joint mobilizations to improve motion and reduce pain
• Electrical Stimulation: For muscle activation in early stages
• Blood Flow Restriction (BFR): Allows strength gains with low-load exercises
• Isokinetic Testing: Quantifies strength deficits and symmetry"

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"Would you like a sample week-by-week protocol for a Grade II MCL sprain or a breakdown of hop test metrics used in elite return-to-play decisions?

https://nmsra.org/top-5-exercises-for-athletes-recovering-from-knee-injuries/

https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/pain/documents/knee-ligament-sprains-and-tears-clinical-practice-guidelines-ensuring-best-care.pdf

Can you describe 1) Blood Flow Restriction; 2) the ACL-RSI scale; 3) the difference between open and closed-chain exercises and the danger of open chain to knee sprains?

"Absolutely. Here's a clear, evidence-based breakdown of all three concepts."

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"1️⃣ Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) Training

"Definition: BFR involves applying a pneumatic cuff or band to the upper thigh to partially restrict venous blood flow while allowing arterial inflow during low-load resistance exercise."

"Purpose in Knee Rehab:

• Enables strength and hypertrophy gains using only 20–30% of 1RM (one-rep max), ideal when high loads are contraindicated post-injury or surgery.
• Reduces muscle atrophy and supports tendon remodeling without stressing healing tissues."

"Benefits:

• Preserves muscle mass and strength during early rehab.
• May reduce pain and swelling.
• Enhances tendon stiffness and aerobic capacity."

"Safety:

• Requires proper screening (e.g. for clotting disorders, hypertension).
• Should be administered by trained professionals using validated equipment and limb occlusion pressure (LOP) protocols.
• Not suitable for running or plyometric exercises during BFR sessions."

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"2️⃣ ACL-RSI Scale (Return to Sport after Injury)

"Definition: A validated psychological assessment tool used to measure an athlete’s mental readiness to return to sport after ACL injury or reconstruction."

"Structure:

• 12 items scored from 0–100 (higher scores = greater psychological readiness).
• Assesses three domains:
  • Emotions (e.g. fear, frustration)
  • Confidence (in knee stability and performance)
  • Risk Appraisal (perceived likelihood of re-injury)"

"Clinical Use:

• Helps identify psychological barriers to return-to-play.
• Scores <60 often correlate with delayed or failed return to sport.
• Can guide mental skills training or counseling alongside physical rehab."

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"3️⃣ Open vs. Closed-Chain Exercises

Type	Definition	Examples
Open-Chain (OKC)	Distal limb segment moves freely in space	Seated leg extension, hamstring curl
Closed-Chain (CKC)	Distal limb is fixed; movement involves multiple joints	Squats, lunges, step-ups"

"Clinical Differences:

• CKC: Safer early in rehab; promotes joint compression and co-contraction of stabilizers.
• OKC: Allows isolated muscle strengthening, especially quadriceps, but may increase anterior tibial translation if done improperly."

"Risks of OKC in Knee Sprains:

• In ACL-deficient or post-op knees, early OKC (especially full-extension leg extensions) may stress healing grafts or ligaments.
• However, recent meta-analyses show that OKC can be safely introduced with proper timing, limited range (e.g. 45–90° flexion), and load control."

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"If you'd like, I can help you build a phased rehab plan that integrates BFR, ACL-RSI monitoring, and safe OKC/CKC progression. Just say the word."

https://sportsmap.com.au/blood-flow-restriction-training-in-knee-rehab-its-not-if-its-when/

https://www.physiotutors.com/questionnaires/acl-rsi/

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sports-and-active-living/articles/10.3389/fspor.2024.1416690/full

https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-025-00843-8

https://www.physio-network.com/blog/open-closed-kinetic-chain-exercises-post-acl-reconstruction/

Awesome. Thank you.

Now instead of D.Q.'s boilerplate, matter of national security injury report, you can use the above at the Water Cooler or when you call in to the Radio Shows. 

Job Fair Time in the NFL

The NFL Draft starts this evening. 

Who knows but it might not be worth staying up for. Unless you are curious about what other teams do. I suspect AP may trade down. Get a good night's sleep. Then join the party tomorrow.

It is a good draft to do that.

In fact, I expect trading will be fast and furious because there are so many good players in the middle rounds. Almost a fire sale type atmosphere. There will be opportunities for the Commanders. And everybody else. There won't be much excuse for not getting something out of this draft.

Unless you are looking for a Quarterback. Pickings are slim. And this gives the Commanders leverage. A few of the better (or deemed better) QBs will still be there at 29. Offering opportunity for trade partners. And more picks. Plus, I think the frenzied middle rounds will be like Christmas for AP. We'll see. 

Jerry Jones is threatening to be a trade maniac. A few times on the NFL Mock Draft Database the computer had him trading everything he had.

There is reason for staying at 29 and waiting the evening out. If Tyler Booker and Donovan Jackson are still around. They're well worth the wait. That guard center triad is important. You need some power there. That is where the Defense lines up those bulky noses. And they double A-Gap the hell out of you.  

I hope all the guys go where they want to go, where they need to go, and where the place and the coaches are the right places and coaches. There are great athletes available in all rounds and in Undrafted Free Agency. They're going to need good teachers.

I think there is a solid Teaching Staff in Washington. 

But so far they've had to behave more like George Allen than Bobby Beathard. Because they needed people who knew what they were doing to take full advantage of their QB.

Allen wasn't big on teaching rookies. They could learn and lose on their own time. Not his. The Skins could play more sophisticated schemes on defense because of this.

And that is why I wonder if the present defensive scheme is too much for the young guys. While there are good teachers on staff, they could end up doing more teaching than coaching. More losing than winning.

That's why it is a blessing the Commanders are older. Able to offload some instruction to Veteran Players. 

We need a blend of teaching by example and learning by doing. From a balance of young and old on our roster.  

Musical Spheres of the Championship Years and 1982

It is fitting the first real commentary from Joe Theismann on the 2024 Commanders came this week as we look at music from that incredible Super Bowl year of 1982. 

Game Highlights. Tale of Two Seasons.

Billie Jean.

Theismann said Jayden Daniels ought to skip the preseason, or so I heard. Some people revolted against the notion. But I hold Joey T to be a heckuva lot wiser than most of today's commentators. 

I mean, rookies struggle with the length of the NFL Season. It is such a malignant force, said length, that your best metric for who will win in the playoffs is who is the healthiest. The NFL has not tempered its greed by expanding rosters which would allow for mitigation of wear and tear. 

The Message

So much for the League's commitment to quality. Expanded rosters would allow for better performances as playing time gets more evenly distributed. Playing time makes players better. That's why they are called "players". If you don't play, you are not a player. If you don't play, how do you know where your game is at? If everybody plays, everybody is more likely to be happy and happy football teams make better decisions on field and off. 

It sounds like I'm making the argument against Theismann's position. But no. I'm saying I'd like Jayden to be available for the playoffs. I'll entertain any such notions as would incline fate to cheat in that direction. The most games he's ever played is 14. The late bye might give him and the other rooks a boost. If the Commanders get a playoff game, he's looking at, minimum, 21 games. With that much wear and tear, I don't think we make the Super Bowl. 

Tough

We'll be out of gas. I mean, vets will be OK. Rooks will have jet lag. Lightening the load would be good, as Joe Theismann as in Wise Man has pointed out. How to Be A Champion Every Day.

Led Zeppelin

Scorpions 

The North Sea Jazz Festival

Willie Nelson 

Bobby Sue

Dolly Parton 

Here are some of the flicks that year:

Blade Runner

Fast Times at Ridemont High. Rockin tune from that movie.

Creepshow

Eye of the Tiger Man 

Conan Da Bahbarian 

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Khan 

Is Jayden Daniels the Beginning of the End for the NFL?

I enjoy the speculation all the fan blogs and channels are doing on the Washington Commanders. 

But there won't be tangible evidence of really ANYTHING until the NFL regular season kicks off. I think they maybe, the Commanders, can lead the league in rushing and field a Top Ten defense but that is all I can imagine at this point without seeing them in the line of fire.

From a football futurology standpoint, there are interesting things to consider.

Such as the following: Will the NFL still be in business in 2050? Is College Football going to end up KEEPING players the entirety of their football-playing careers? Is AI going to eject humans from the game of football? Or is AI Robotics going to inject humans of all shapes and sizes into the game based on motion capture, robot avatars, and Madden 2050? 

By Madden 2050, there should be tech in place allowing a four-foot four hundred pound video game master to insert his cybernetic ectoplasm into a robot avatar and play any position in football. And excel at it. 

Avatars made of titanium chassies rendering Team Doctors Unemployed. Humans participating only as pit crew members replacing parts, rebooting wi-fi, coaches calling plays. Hell, AI calling plays. 

And talk about nostalgia. All the greats could have avatars constructed of themselves and return to the gridiron. Play against each other once again. Easy enough right? Load the 2D tape of the classic games. Use the 2D to transfer to 3D Holograms. Use the 3D Holograms as motion capture. Load it into a Bot. Et voila! Super Bowl 22 relived in titanium crunching three dimensions!

People talk about football immortality. What about our heroes choosing to live forever in their newly constructed football avatar bodies? 

All of this because of 3D QB and Jayden Daniels? Is Jayden Daniels going to load the NFL into the Matrix? And if they go, do we all go?

Touchdown Technology

I mean, I don't believe the NFL can compete with College Football. College Ball can promise full employment figures. The NFL's elitist structure surgically removes the "bums" and only employs 50 people a team.

College Ball has bigger rosters and can offer lifetime involvement in football with career tracks that last beyond playing into coaching and lecturing with things like tenured football professors and football experts emeritus.

The NFL just isn't all that interested in full employment. It is interested in making money. They should have 90-man rosters but instead offer these American Football Has Talent Shows every year that breaks hundreds of hearts and dashes dreams as a matter of course.

They are crass and College Ball is not.

A Med School model which is what College Ball is looking like it is using would work way better than the NFL works. You get paid in Med School. You become a surgeon. You lose your skills. You lecture. 

They you play golf in the Carribean.

What's more is the football will probably be BETTER in the new College Model than what you see in the NFL where after five years they basically kick you to the curb.

The NFL is not ready for that kind of competition. They are a monopoly and their self-satisfaction has ruined them as far as competitive environments is concerned.

The NFL can be replaced. We're seeing some candidates forming. 

Question is. Does the NFL see it?

 

Whammsical Thoughts

The Falcons don't have a whammy game posted on their Channel. It doesn't look like the whammies are working much anyway.

I don't really think Thursday Night Games tell you much about NFL Teams. For too many reasons to list. They are kind of sleazy rip-offs. Like showing up to an NBA Game and they're playing three-man basketball.

In the old days, the way you ended losing streaks was you concentrated on fundamentals. Blocking. Tackling. Route running. Watching film. Going to your bread and butters. Doing plain and simple measurable hard work. 

In the old days, they didn't know how to rest. They didn't think much about CNS overload. These days you have to REST hard. The mental aspect of the game has come front and center. If you are psychologically burned out, your CNS is shot, you most likely are beaten before you take the field. 

Who wants to play football with a shot CNS? It makes you stupid. You do stupid things. You suffer what they call in therapy land "overwhelm". I'm thinking of early Kirk Cousins here. 

Cousins had a lot of brains.

And the more brains you have the more you overthink and every stinking thought weighs two tons and you carry that weight and they expect you to cover a guy who runs a 4.3 forty and outweighs you by forty pounds.

That's another thing they did in the old days. We have old guys coaching in Washington. That's why I'm talking about the old days. They would, the geezers, because they're so much smarter than you, SIMPLIFY things for YOU SIMPLETONS, so you would play faster.

It is like your potted plant when it becomes root-bound. The scheme, which is supposed to be your support structure, starts eating your brain. Paralysis sinks in.

It is also called Brainlock or Brainfreeze. Like Mitch McConnell or Joe Biden. The Brain freezes. Because there is too much in it. Too much multi-tasking. You're juggling too many things on the honey-do lists Geezer Coaches have given you.

This is the type mentality that makes you forget your drills. You forget your second nature tasks. Tackling. Blocking. Ball security. Creating turnovers. Tip drills. Mental reps. You can't imagine yourself picking off a pass, sacking the QB, or making that TD grab. So you don't.

It's mental reps where you can do some refueling of your passion for the game. This is where remedial reading comes in. Things like retrocognition, retrocausation, memory reconsolidation. The rewind technique. You give up a TD where you went for the pick and the other guy beats you for the ball. You rewind and see yourself making the play. You know what you should have done. Rewind right away and do it right. Over and over. Preferably to inspirational music.

Or put your greatest football hits on the TV and watch and rewatch. 

You study film you see a guy on the other team beating guys all over the league. See yourself while you study disrupting the guy. You take the ball away. You make the tackle. You go in for six. See yourself making something happen. Get your feel for the game back. 

Now it could be the Geezer Coaches for the Washington Commanders are past their primes. To the point even football viagra can't revive them. Old dogs who refuse to learn new tricks. They feel their past accomplishments entitles them to their positions. Even if they are not aware of it, they feel they have nothing to prove to you. In denial about whether the game has passed them by.

It could be. Jack Del Rio and Ron Rivera were great coaches and players. They have nothing to apologize for and everything to be proud of. They both look fit and healthy. But it is the mental portion of the game that becomes too much for aging coaches. 

Not coincidentally, their team seems to be suffering losses on the football field that are primarily mental in nature.

Losing to the Bears Thursday Night sure looked like a mental loss to me, even given the fact Thursday Night Games are the NFL equivalent to full frontal lobotomies.

Have Rivera and Del Rio been lobomized by CNS Overload and the aging process?

I guess we see what they do in Atlanta.

Expect Hell Up the Middle

I'm not sure the notions floating around about the Commander Offensive Line indicate a good outcome for that unit in 2023.

I realize the game day roster limits, which should be stricken from NFL History in my opinion, do not allow for adequate staffing of the Offensive Line. This harkens back to the NFL's suspect concern for Player Safety and really is a Collective Bargaining issue. Teams should be at bare minimum allowed to field a two-deep roster meaning two real physical entities at each spot. Not fantasy cross trained single units. And I think three deep is where the League needs to be and where injuries would be most attenuated.

That's not happening in a greed-based sport. Even though it retards the quality of the product on the field. At times severely and disgracefully.

The Middle of the Commander Offensive Line was a significant weakness last year. That is the place to begin if you are a defensive coordinator playing the Commanders. Attack the middle. Place your stud DT or nose tackle square on the center. Apply middle blitz. Simmer and stir.

I'm saying shove Mazi Smith or Jalen Carter up the Commander Gut. Make them pay for what they lack emphasis on. Let your edge rushers clean up the spill over. That should be easy in an NFC East teeming to overflowing with edge beastliness.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. The shortest distance between your DT/NT and the Commander's fresh young Vulcan QB Sam Howell is through the Center. As far as I can tell, the Commanders believe they have little need of a center. Or any other offensive lineman for that matter. Except for guard. This means you can probably sack Howell on his first step of the dropback or even intercept the snap from the pathetic center in the pistol/shotgun!

Imagine the system collapse should you be able to disrupt the famous Sam Howell stoicism! There is nothing more disruptive to Vulcan rectitude than the face of a rude and nasty nose tackle inserting itself in the middle of fake equilibrium. Your goal?

Turn Mr. Spock into a scream queen.

If I'm on the other hand the Offensive Line Coach for the Commanders I'm on the horn to Coach Harbaugh of the Ravens, the Championship Caliber NFL Football team my guys are scrimmaging/playing in the preseason, asking him to have the Ravens middle blitz and line a guy head up on the center.

Push it till it breaks, Coach. 

That's what I'd tell him. Then if it breaks, I'd know what effect my lack of emphasis had on the interior of the Commander Offensive Line. I'd want to know if the damn problem went away on its own like my doctor told me it would or if I need to show my bottom.

So what's my beef?

I think game day roster limits are BS. I think position flex is the reaction to that BS and it takes BS to fight BS. You give the offensive line multiple personality disorder. Can you guarantee the degree of focus you get from a guard who just plays guard versus a Guard/Tackle/Center who is one blow to the head away from having his three hundred sixty degree muscle memory erased?

Not to mention that on a position flexed Offensive Line ONE loss equals TWO LOSSES if not three. Then the tight end is playing center.

Good luck with that.

It's self-induced BRAIN FOG, Gentlemen/Owners. There's a little gremlin called "Where the hell am I?". It surfaces with position flex. Getting the hell kicked out of you happens on an ever-increasing basis when you don't know where the hell you are. 

It's diluted whiskey, Gentlemen/Owners. You're settling for a watered down tackle at guard and a watered down guard at center. Each with a mushy football mentality filled with tasteless confusion.

It's anemia, Gentlemen/Owners. You don't have enough IRON IN THE BLOOD. 

Let's not ignore the hysterical sci-fi fantasy aspects of this. 

The fantasy exists when you expect the cross trained portion of Guard X to be able to fill in at Center when the Center goes down but hold on wait a minute Guard X himself is down. 

That's OK send in his ghost. Send in his Hologram! Fantasy football at its finest!

I always say Guard X has a ton of spirit! 

We're Not Your Chumps Anymore

The situation in Washington, as has been noted by the pundits, is fluid. I guess to fill time the commentators are hurrying to do final assessments on the Commanders' roster.

But that can't be done yet. The final grade on NFL rosters is the day after the Super Bowl and that is a long ways off. 

The roster is more like a formation. It is set in motion during the offseason like a tailback sent wide by the QB.

It is a chessboard where moves are made to put the team in position to do something.

Like what? Like make the playoffs. Like win the division. Like win homefield advantage. Like make the Super Bowl. Like winning the Super Bowl.

There are moves yet to be made. By the Commanders and by the entire league. 

Some of them will tip the hands of the people who make them. It will be a tell to me that the Commanders aren't interested in contending if they make no move to draft offensive linemen. They have flaws elsewhere. But the offensive line was a clear weakness and was decisive in some of the losing that was done. 

And yet, had it been a tad stronger and a tad healthier the team would have been in the playoffs at a minimum. 

Preliminary steps have been taken in that regard. The job still needs to be finished. We need to see healthy guys on the roster to expect improvement in wins and losses.

Currently, the talk is about quarterback and cornerback. It should be about the O-Line and the O-Line Coach. Who will that be?

There are intimations from the Press Corps that the Commanders are somehow obligated to talk to Lamar Jackson. That's problematic. The issue with Jackson is a league issue. It's about whether roster annihilating contracts should be guaranteed. It is about Quarterbacks with a dangerous style of play they can't guarantee desiring guarantees they'll get paid for work they may not do. Is guaranteeing a quarter of a BILLION dollars for work that may not be done a fair deal? 

Football is a dangerous game and people get hurt. Few football people are psychic, however. Maybe in the future a player can use a time machine and bring back game film to the negotiating table and say hey look this proves I play the whole season next year. Guaranteed money is a form of injury insurance. The Players Association is asking for the player to be paid for the work he would have done had he not been subject to the occupational hazard of playing football.

I think we'd all like a shot at that deal. Imagine what we could get never having played a down. Wow.

But that's a labor issue. It is league wide. It is not up to the league's chumps to go fund me the players. That is for the League and the Players Association to work out.

My sense is the League feels guaranteed money is one way they get ripped off. There may be a guaranteed sum they would be morally obligated to pay. But a quarter of a billion?

That's an understandable reason NOT to pursue Lamar Jackson. If Peter King, Mike Florio, or anyone else who believes the Washington Commanders have a moral obligation to make Lamar an offer is willing to provide reinsurance regarding the matter, I'd say let's do it. But that's not going to happen. These are geniuses with our money. Theirs is not up for discussion. Even though it would expose how much faith they really have in Lamar Jackson. 

Teams have been burned by this concept too many times. Why is Washington an okay place to get burned? You say we're dumb now for not doing it. But I'd bet 250 million you'd say we were dumb for doing it later.

My feeling is the days where we are the league chumps are numbered.

Or at least, Peter, we're not YOUR CHUMPS anymore. 

That said, at the right price, I'd sign Lamar. Waiting for the new owner's input of course.

After all, it is his money.

Let's Keep Snyder in the Snyder Box

WUSA had this report on how Commanders Players feel about working conditions.

Rick Snider, veteran Redskin/Commander reporter, had this in response.

This seems like the Dan Snyder effect. Everybody is piling on Snyder. Knowing there is new money coming in as a result of Snyder's implosion, the NFLPA probably thinks they can use Snyder's misfortune and bad reputation to leverage the new owner into making improvements.

Which may be not altogether a bad thing but . . . it is a little like buzzard behavior.

Most people agree the field at Fed-Ex is abominable. It seems the League in general has a problem with field maintenance. Even the Super Bowl was not spared that indignity. Poor fields lead to injuries. Yet I didn't see the field listed. Maybe it was in the actual report. 

To give dietary a D- is a bit much. Especially considering the DMV, which includes Baltimore and Washington, has a disgraceful amount of homelessness and hunger. If the food be not to the team's liking, perhaps the homeless can be invited in. To avoid waste. Or are we saying let them eat cake?

Not to mention every player should consider hiring a personal nutritionist on their own dime. Personal trainers and football tutors as well. As part of fine tuning their craft. What you do on your own says a lot about how serious you are about football. 

Let's face it. The food is not hardtack. 

Remember that scene in Lord of the Rings? One of the Orcs complains about the food. How they haven't had any meat in a long time? Like Snyder and his money. He hadn't had a lot of cash in a long time so he thinks he needs 55 million? So he demands indemnification.

Look's like Snyder's back on the menu, boys!

Let's keep billionaire Snyder in the Snyder box and lay off the working folk. It ill-becomes a union to cold cock them.