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Tua has had surgery per ESPN

Keeter said:
Just think how far medicine has come.........................20 or so years ago, would that kind of recovery been possible?
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I'm not medical historian, but I bet we'd be talking about an Iron Bowl return if this happened in the 1990s.
 
rgw said:
I'm not medical historian, but I bet we'd be talking about an Iron Bowl return if this happened in the 1990s.
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IF he were lucky.

I've seen the team surgeon speak on this surgery (on video - I'm not that connected) and IIRC he said walking within 7 days and return to running in about 2 weeks. 3 weeks would not be an unusual time to play. The "string" will now hold the joint together. They use stem cells to speed the healing and reduce inflammation. He may be only 85-90% but I fully expect Tua to play against L8U.
 
Yeah, for as long as I can remember this diagnosis in MLB meant 2-3 months missed playing time.
 
B1GTide said:
Yeah, for as long as I can remember this diagnosis in MLB meant 2-3 months missed playing time.
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And then often a re-injury then they returned. It often really took 6 months or more to fully recover from it. Without this surgery we'd be looking at a situation where he might be able to return this season with a high likelihood that he would be severely limited and still injure it again.
 
JustNeedMe81 said:
Remember, Everyone responds to the procedure differently. Its how they tolerate the pain. Maybe Tua is fine, and they just perform tightrope to prevent it from happening again. We will see how he respond to the treatment by Next Tuesday ( They won't likely practice next Monday.)
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In addition to this, you need to keep in context what the player is being asked to do. Cam Robinson at tackle probably didn’t stress the ankle laterally as much as a qb or rb would be asked to do.

Remember too that many are making the assumption that this ankle sprain was as bad as the one he suffered last year. This could be a situation where it’s a bad grade 1 or moderate grade 2 high ankle sprain as opposed a grade 3. If you or I had bad grade 1 or a grade 2, orthos would RICE and give it 4 weeks or so to heal. This could be situation where the sprain isn’t necessarily as severe as last year’s injury but conservative treatment would put him at 4-5 weeks getting back on the field. They could have chosen to be more aggressive in treatment by doing the tightrope because it could speed up the recovery process,not necessarily due to the severity of the injury.

I’m hoping this is the case.

if there is a positive, it is that it isn’t Tua’s plant foot so it shouldn’t affect his his push off.
 
Well at least he didn’t/won’t get hurt playing against Arky. We can beat them with Mac but we need Tua to play if we want to beat LSU.
 
Intl.Aperture said:
Which is remarkable given that MLB players rarely do anything other than sit on a bench, stand in a field, or swing a bat a few times in a box. ;) (slightly blue font)

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Baseball players are weird when it comes to injuries. They will bruise an elbow and go on the 30 day DL. I think it’s because the season is so long, they rest for as long as possible.
 
Get well soon Tua!!

I know nothing about the surgery or injury for that matter but I am not looking at it as all doom and gloom as I am sure most of you are not either. I think this could be the opportunity we need to get the running game a bit more off the mat and running on all cylinders! Not to mention getting Mack up to game speed and finding what he can do best! No I do not expect him to come off the bench and be the next Tua or Jalen Hurts but maybe Kyle Trask or Ryan Helinski? Trask played fairly well against LSU in my opinion at Death Valley that night, gave them a shot!

Another thing to think about is if Bama does come up a little short against LSU November 9th, heaven forbid, with a limited Tua and or Mack Jones, but wins out and misses the SEC championship game, all is not lost for the CFP. If Tua makes it back in time to show out against the barn or before, the committee no doubt would take that into consideration if LSU is Bama's only loss and LSU is undefeated and ranked #1 SEC champions. Yeah we would need a little help but that would be as good a loss as any other team could have if one of Oklahoma, Ohio State or Clemson should lose a game. I just don't see all four playoff teams being undefeated at years end. If so then it just wasn't meant to be! ;)

Honestly to me the LSU game November 9th was looking like a toss up even with a 100% Tua. I can't for the life of me see Tua being 100% by the 9th either, but a 60-70% Tua along with Mack Jones could be the ticket we need to beat LSU. Give them more to have to prepare for leading up to the game. :)
 
It's scarcely worth mentioning at this point, but I'm afraid this has affected his draft status. His durability was already in question with some in the NFL. He shouldn't have been trying to extend that play. The risk/reward just wasn't there and it was not where he should have been risking his body. The pros pay attention to that sort of thing. If he's in the RZ and the game's on the line, that's one thing. However, that was not the situation when the injury happened. He's got to learn to protect his body...
 
Tidewater said:
A friend of mine who follows college football (but not Bama) said to me, "You know why Brady is still playing in his 40s? He never takes a hit he does not need to."
It remains Tua's greatest weakness, the inability to just throw the ball away. Sometimes, the defense just wins. Throw the ball away. Live to play another down.
Oh, well, a speedy recovery to the young man.
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Great advice. I'd rather see the ball tossed into the stands than Tua take another hit.
Last year and this year, guys have been going for his legs... Some of it shamefully, others were innocent hits. Still the legs take a beating.
I hope Tua has a quick recovery, and no more injuries.
 
TIDE-HSV said:
It's scarcely worth mentioning at this point, but I'm afraid this has affected his draft status. His durability was already in question with some in the NFL. He shouldn't have been trying to extend that play. The risk/reward just wasn't there and it was not where he should have been risking his body. The pros pay attention to that sort of thing. If he's in the RZ and the game's on the line, that's one thing. However, that was not the situation when the injury happened. He's got to learn to protect his body...
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Where do you think he goes in the draft? I’ve seen some reports saying 1st overall, then others saying top 5........ it may not be first, but I think he goes 1st round, but I don’t know where.

i agree with the other posts though...... he needs to protect himself as much as possible. No doubt there are those out there that think nothing of trying to hurt him
 
There’s an article on AL.com that quotes an unnamed source that claims the sprain was a bad one. Does that mean the one from SECCG game was borderline catastrophic?
 
Ole Man Dan said:
Great advice. I'd rather see the ball tossed into the stands than Tua take another hit.
Last year and this year, guys have been going for his legs... Some of it shamefully, others were innocent hits. Still the legs take a beating.
I hope Tua has a quick recovery, and no more injuries.
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I love the competitive spirit trying to keep a play alive to put the dagger into the heart of the opponent (figuratively speaking), Tua just needs to learn to put that one particular play into its larger perspective of the season and his own career.
 
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