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Just now, BurntOrange&White said:

Didn't know a hand made you half ass routes and give half ass effort

My bigger issue is that if he had some form of soft tissue injury that they were numbing up to get him out there to be used as a decoy, wtf was QE throwing bombs to him knowing his hand was borked?

I get wanting to get him on the field, and even him shying away from some things and even showing less than max effort on some things if he thinks he is out there as a decoy. But if that is the case, why is QE trying to throw to him all the damn time?

6 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

My bigger issue is that if he had some form of soft tissue injury that they were numbing up to get him out there to be used as a decoy, wtf was QE throwing bombs to him knowing his hand was borked?

I get wanting to get him on the field, and even him shying away from some things and even showing less than max effort on some things if he thinks he is out there as a decoy. But if that is the case, why is QE trying to throw to him all the damn time?

Who else are you going to throw to down the field from last year's team? Unless they decided to dust off Brennan Thompson and let him run go routes, there isn't another dude in that room that would break 4.6 in the 40. It was the only way to keep the safeties from crowding the box for Bijan. 

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10 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

Who else are you going to throw to down the field from last year's team? Unless they decided to dust off Brennan Thompson and let him run go routes, there isn't another dude in that room that would break 4.6 in the 40. It was the only way to keep the safeties from crowding the box for Bijan. 

There’s no way that’s right?  I was on a high school football team that was terrible because the oline was averaging 190lbs maybe but five of us ran in the 4.6’s or better.  I’m counting the 4.68’s but we also had three or so that were sub 4.6.  

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37 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

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I do.  This is theory makes some sense to me.  JMO.

46 minutes ago, Laxtonto said:

 

Essentially? Broken or not, decoy or not, if you’re going to put receivers out in routes and call passing plays, you have to have a dude that is out there capable of making a catch when wide fucking open. The ill-advised bombs are probably on Ewers. The dropped TDs against UW are on coach. 

Captain Obvious here but getting zero from Hall, Neyor, and to a lesser degree Billingsley was just a killer. To the extent that late in the year we were only throwing deep to a dude with a broken hand. 

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4 hours ago, Laxtonto said:

 

I think "essentially a broken hand" may be code for QE.

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WTF - that makes the decision to keep throwing to him even fucking worse. 

20 hours ago, hornbri said:

WTF - that makes the decision to keep throwing to him even fucking worse. 

Yup

We could all see his hands were broken but  knowingly playing him injured and watching drops due to injury is insane. 

What the fuck was Sark thinking? No backup plan at all once Neyor went out. 

At least we've recruited well enough to be pretty stacked at skill positions now, play the guys who can fucking perform. 

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“Essentially” is doing a lot of work in that statement. I mean, I think most observers would argue they were “essentially broken” just based on watching him try to catch.

7 hours ago, Zeus said:

 

What the fuck was Sark thinking? No backup plan at all once Neyor went out. 

 

Not sure what sark could have done in the middle of August when he went down.  He had both Neyor and Zay and not a person on this site thought that was a bad duo going in to the season.  

6 hours ago, markstanco said:

Not sure what sark could have done in the middle of August when he went down.  He had both Neyor and Zay and not a person on this site thought that was a bad duo going in to the season.  

Well maybe the problem will be solved with a new WR coach, but he wasn't playing anybody else. I know we hated Herman always playing a million different WRs instead of the best but when we played the starters they weren't giving the QBs much help.

Maybe they didn't trust Red... Thompson, Hall, Davis, or really anybody except Whittington Xay and Sanders. In that case we should've had two RBs in almost always, and once Xay was injured KR in the slot or something.

On 3/6/2023 at 10:17 AM, Gucci_Suit said:

Essentially? Broken or not, decoy or not, if you’re going to put receivers out in routes and call passing plays, you have to have a dude that is out there capable of making a catch when wide fucking open. The ill-advised bombs are probably on Ewers. The dropped TDs against UW are on coach. 

I think it’s an indictment of our wr room more than Coach or QE.  If QE and coach think our best chance of catching a pass is throwing to a guy with a broken hand rather than someone off the bench, then there ya go.  That problem should be solved by this year. It still baffles me we struggle so much to start 3 menaces at WR every year!

5 hours ago, Majorcholas said:

I think it’s an indictment of our wr room more than Coach or QE.  If QE and coach think our best chance of catching a pass is throwing to a guy with a broken hand rather than someone off the bench, then there ya go.  That problem should be solved by this year. It still baffles me we struggle so much to start 3 menaces at WR every year!

Texas has wasted WR talent for years with sub standard QB play. Meanwhile our biggest rival has been shitting out heisman QBs… last years starting receivers + TE + RBs were probably our best pass catching group on paper in a decade or longer

35 minutes ago, B00M said:

Texas has wasted WR talent for years with sub standard QB play. Meanwhile our biggest rival has been shitting out heisman QBs… last years starting receivers + TE + RBs were probably our best pass catching group on paper in a decade or longer

I don't know about that one, chief.

 

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Lets see OU without Lincoln Riley and his stat padding offense before we use them as example. 

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7 minutes ago, stork642 said:

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I wish the media would have asked what "broken hand essentially" meant

2 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

I wish the media would have asked what "broken hand essentially" meant

I’m old but I guess broken hand is some sorta slang meaning can’t see shit. Anyway last year is in the past and I’m still a fan and hope he kills it this year.  Might I suggest an Optometrist.  

On 2/8/2023 at 8:58 AM, MAUFRAIS said:

Whenever I see “cuh” I think “If anybody wants to see, there's a Donkey Kong kill screen coming up”

I just googled this and was not disappointed at all haha

 

Yet another reason for him not to return punts.
Poor coaching decision.
49 minutes ago, TxTower said:


Yet another reason for him not to return punts.
Poor coaching decision.

Except for the fact that he was fine catching punts, which makes this whole story even more confusing. All we know it that Worthy did not have a broken hand, but he had some kind of injury. It seems nobody knows what that injury actually was or if it had a major affect on Worthy's play

Worthy is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.  Nothing about him over the last season makes any sense.  The only thing more vexing is a freshman DL, who has the opportunity to go to the all you can eat steak buffet every night, spontaneously losing 40 pounds.

4 hours ago, stork642 said:

I’m old but I guess broken hand is some sorta slang meaning can’t see shit. Anyway last year is in the past and I’m still a fan and hope he kills it this year.  Might I suggest an Optometrist.  

I think I mentioned this last season. Trip to the opto did good things for Squints, can't think of reason it would hurt X to give it a shot. A lot of the misses/drops I saw seemed like he never saw the ball at all, had no idea wheree it was until it hit him in the mask. It couldn't hoit.

Did he have surgery after the season? Only things I can think of that he could play with are hamate fracture, scapholunate injury, or some type of scaphoid injury that wasn’t a scaphoid fracture. These are all wrist not hand injuries though. 
 

also after that huge med mal case in Philly on the ex NFL player where they didn’t repair his meniscus don’t expect many athletes to be cleared to play w injuries until completely healed going forward 

It is unusual to play receiver with a hand fracture. I guess it could have been something like an incomplete diaphyseal fracture of a non-border metacarpal. As long as surveillance continues to show no completion/displacement over time, I guess one could defend waiting to treat it definitively until after the season. For a hamate hook fracture in a receiver, early surgery would be expected. Scapholunate normally won’t keep either. Maybe a non-displaced sesamoid with an intact tendon. Certainly an outlier whatever it was.

10 hours ago, Magus Ossis said:

It is unusual to play receiver with a hand fracture. I guess it could have been something like an incomplete diaphyseal fracture of a non-border metacarpal. As long as surveillance continues to show no completion/displacement over time, I guess one could defend waiting to treat it definitively until after the season. For a hamate hook fracture in a receiver, early surgery would be expected. Scapholunate normally won’t keep either. Maybe a non-displaced sesamoid with an intact tendon. Certainly an outlier whatever it was.

 

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10 hours ago, Magus Ossis said:

It is unusual to play receiver with a hand fracture. I guess it could have been something like an incomplete diaphyseal fracture of a non-border metacarpal. As long as surveillance continues to show no completion/displacement over time, I guess one could defend waiting to treat it definitively until after the season. For a hamate hook fracture in a receiver, early surgery would be expected. Scapholunate normally won’t keep either. Maybe a non-displaced sesamoid with an intact tendon. Certainly an outlier whatever it was.

That’s exactly what I was thinking.

10 hours ago, Magus Ossis said:

It is unusual to play receiver with a hand fracture. I guess it could have been something like an incomplete diaphyseal fracture of a non-border metacarpal. As long as surveillance continues to show no completion/displacement over time, I guess one could defend waiting to treat it definitively until after the season. For a hamate hook fracture in a receiver, early surgery would be expected. Scapholunate normally won’t keep either. Maybe a non-displaced sesamoid with an intact tendon. Certainly an outlier whatever it was.

 

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Sorry for the jargon. It was really more of a reply to Sawbonz (who I expected to speak mumbo jumbo well enough to get my drift). Bottom line it is unusual, especially in today's medicolegal environment, for a doc to clear someone to play receiver with a broken hand.

11 hours ago, Magus Ossis said:

It is unusual to play receiver with a hand fracture. I guess it could have been something like an incomplete diaphyseal fracture of a non-border metacarpal. As long as surveillance continues to show no completion/displacement over time, I guess one could defend waiting to treat it definitively until after the season. For a hamate hook fracture in a receiver, early surgery would be expected. Scapholunate normally won’t keep either. Maybe a non-displaced sesamoid with an intact tendon. Certainly an outlier whatever it was.

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25 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

Sorry for the jargon. It was really more of a reply to Sawbonz (who I expected to speak mumbo jumbo well enough to get my drift). Bottom line it is unusual, especially in today's medicolegal environment, for a doc to clear someone to play receiver with a broken hand.

I guess this explains the effort we saw from him and why he wasn't willing to go after the ball.   Sark is an idiot.  

36 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

Sorry for the jargon. It was really more of a reply to Sawbonz (who I expected to speak mumbo jumbo well enough to get my drift). Bottom line it is unusual, especially in today's medicolegal environment, for a doc to clear someone to play receiver with a broken hand.

Not for Doctor Bombay…

 

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12 hours ago, Magus Ossis said:

It is unusual to play receiver with a hand fracture. I guess it could have been something like an incomplete diaphyseal fracture of a non-border metacarpal. As long as surveillance continues to show no completion/displacement over time, I guess one could defend waiting to treat it definitively until after the season. For a hamate hook fracture in a receiver, early surgery would be expected. Scapholunate normally won’t keep either. Maybe a non-displaced sesamoid with an intact tendon. Certainly an outlier whatever it was.

I concur. 

On 3/8/2023 at 7:55 AM, stork642 said:

I’m old but I guess broken hand is some sorta slang meaning can’t see shit. Anyway last year is in the past and I’m still a fan and hope he kills it this year.  Might I suggest an Optometrist.  

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1 hour ago, Magus Ossis said:

Sorry for the jargon. It was really more of a reply to Sawbonz (who I expected to speak mumbo jumbo well enough to get my drift). Bottom line it is unusual, especially in today's medicolegal environment, for a doc to clear someone to play receiver with a broken hand.

Never apologize for being smarter than Surly.

I guess your hand can be pretty much broken, just like you can be "essentially pregnant."

38 minutes ago, tejas60 said:

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Besides, seeing is the most important thing, son.

I don't think it's that important.

5 minutes ago, runthebone said:

I guess your hand can be pretty much broken, just like you can be "essentially pregnant."

Sort of.

On 3/6/2023 at 8:49 AM, Hook1997 said:

There’s no way that’s right?  I was on a high school football team that was terrible because the oline was averaging 190lbs maybe but five of us ran in the 4.6’s or better.  I’m counting the 4.68’s but we also had three or so that were sub 4.6.  

High school?  In high school, I once ran a 4.49.  We ran two guys side by side, individually timed.  My timer was a buddy of mine who was not running that day due to a sprained ankle.  The other timer was one of our asst coaches, typical crusty old hs coach who had timed probably 1000 guys before.  I lost the race.  The other guy was timed at 4.65.  The whole team cracked up but damn if I didn't brag about that time all season.

FCB on Worthy, his injury, and Sark's POV:

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Yes, Steve Sarkisian’s response Monday was a little snippy on why he didn’t release information sooner about Xavier Worthy playing the second half of last season with “a broken hand.”

“Because I don’t have to tell you,” Sarkisian said. “And our opponents would have known, too. So we have a lot of injuries that can occur on our team that may not keep a player out that we don’t disclose to protect the player and to protect the program.”

But the bottom line is Sarkisian is all in on Worthy’s work ethic, commitment and toughness.

“Xavier is a great example of what it looks like to go to work every day and how to practice,” Sarkisian said. “We don’t have a guy who works harder - that’s the first guy on the field and the last guy off.”

In talking about Worthy’s injury - and the fact he’s recovered from it - Sarkisian basically said he believes Worthy is ready for a big year:

“Well, I think anytime you're a receiver, and you're playing with a broken hand, that's a pretty important aspect of your game,” Sarkisian said. “And that guy never wanted to sit out or not play. He came to work. He fought through it. There were days in practice where we purposely didn't throw him balls just to take some of the pressure off of it. But I think we're going to see a version of Xavier Worthy, that's going to be dramatically different now that he's healthy.”

 

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