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Vikings QB JJ McCarthy out for season (torn meniscus)


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3 hours ago, aceinthehouse said:

So JJ is probably gone for the yr.

Penix, probably won't see much, if any time this yr. 

And Maye looks really, really bad/raw right now & not ready to start.

That leaves Caleb, Jayden & Bo for QB's as Rookies of the year hopefuls, at the QB position.

I’m not going to allow for this Bazooka Joe erasure. 

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10 hours ago, vike daddy said:

and early, at that.

Feel for you man. I know you were talking (in our Broncos section) about him and Nix likely ending up compared to each other with the way the draft worked out. I'm hoping this won't be too much of a setback for JJ and he can come back to play out this comparison. Seemed like he and Nix both flashed in their first preseason games

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4 minutes ago, Dbrog24 said:

Feel for you man. I know you were talking (in our Broncos section) about him and Nix likely ending up compared to each other with the way the draft worked out. I'm hoping this won't be too much of a setback for JJ and he can come back to play out this comparison. Seemed like he and Nix both flashed in their first preseason games

thanks, that's clean of you.

Nix' and McCarthy's situation are different though, thankfully for Viking fans. in that, the Broncos pretty much need Nix to start, but the Viking coaches do not want to rush McC to do so. of course, this injury is not a good thing as it deprives him of reps, but he wasn't QB1 anyway and with Darnold on hand we don't have to scramble or potentially use trade assets to hurry up and find a starter.

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37 minutes ago, vike daddy said:

thanks, that's clean of you.

Nix' and McCarthy's situation are different though, thankfully for Viking fans. in that, the Broncos pretty much need Nix to start, but the Viking coaches do not want to rush McC to do so. of course, this injury is not a good thing as it deprives him of reps, but he wasn't QB1 anyway and with Darnold on hand we don't have to scramble or potentially use trade assets to hurry up and find a starter.

It's this decades version of Teddy Bridgewater v. Derek Carr.

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Full meniscus repair. He's out for the season.

Tough start to his career, but he's young and this was always going to be a bit of a redshirt season for him.

Apparently, they weren't sure what they were going to do until they opened him up. It has to suck coming out of anesthesia not knowing if you are going to be able to play football or not this year and waiting with bated breath for the doctor to tell you.

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Just now, minutemancl said:

Full meniscus repair. He's out for the season.

Tough start to his career, but he's young and this was always going to be a bit of a redshirt season for him.

Apparently, they weren't sure what they were going to do until they opened him up. It has to suck coming out of anesthesia not knowing if you are going to be able to play football or not this year and waiting with bated breath for the doctor to tell you.

That is almost always the case.  Surgeons will get consent for surgery stating meniscus repair vs menisectomy.  They can't fully tell if a meniscus tear is repairable or not until they view it and prove the tear for its full extent.  Clean edges vs jagged edges of a tear won't show up on MRI unless the tear is really jagged which are not repairable ( and have a good chance to heal).

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21 hours ago, minutemancl said:

The term, and idea of, "meniscus trimming" gives me the chills. 

That's what a lot of arthroscopic surgeries are. A sharp edge on a tear might cut something else, so the surgery is to go in and smooth things out, and stop it front getting worse.

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3 minutes ago, ramssuperbowl99 said:

That's what a lot of arthroscopic surgeries are. A sharp edge on a tear might cut something else, so the surgery is to go in and smooth things out, and stop it front getting worse.

Meniscus tissue can't cut other tissue.  It's soft and absorbs force.  It can compress and slowly over time wear away / gouge on other cartilage  ( articular cartilage) leading to degenerative changes in the knee

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