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    National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

    I'm speaking from fourteen hours ahead here, and I can confirm that, at least in the Southern Hemisphere, the sky does not appear to be falling.

    The St. Louis Rams remain open to trading out of the top overall pick and have been fielding exploratory calls from NFL teams to gauge the cost of moving up to draft University of Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford, according to a league source with knowledge of the situation.

    Although the Rams are definitely willing to listen, a trade is regarded as unlikely to happen.

    The Rams remain sold on Bradford from a medical, ability and character standpoint and are prepared to pick him.

    We're told that some NFL teams have reservations about Bradford medically, but it's not about his surgically repaired shoulder.

    Instead, they have some concerns about his knee.

    It's not expected to affect his draft stock dramatically, but it is an issue that has been raised by NFL team doctors.
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    Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

    i'm speaking from fourteen hours ahead here
    fourteen hours ahead!!!! Good grief, man, who did we draft?!?!?! Who did we draft?!?!?
    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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      Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

      Not sure what to make of this. The only knee issue I've read about Bradford is that he sustained a minor injury to it against Baylor, but didn't leave the field. It sounded very minor, like the kind of bump or bruise you'd expect to get playing football, which is why I haven't included it with other injuries when talking about Bradford's injury history or durability.

      It's entirely possible if not probable that this is a last ditch effort by some teams to try and throw some mud against the wall, hoping that improves the Rams' chances of passing on Bradford or trading out of that spot. But if the information is accurate and there is something more concerning about his knee, then it would be just another bullet point on the list of injuries that make him a durability concern at the next level.

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      • #4
        Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

        I'm worried about Bradford's back. After he puts all that signing bonus money in his wallet, his back is going to be straining under all the weight.

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          Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

          Originally posted by Nick View Post
          It's entirely possible if not probable that this is a last ditch effort by some teams to try and throw some mud against the wall, hoping that improves the Rams' chances of passing on Bradford or trading out of that spot.
          BINGO!!!

          I mean... really. The media has been focused on Bradford for months now, and you're telling me that the first we are hearing of a knee issue is a report (with no source) from a glorified football blog?

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            Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

            I think the next story will be about concerns over Bradford's mental stability and sexual preferances...

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              Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

              Originally posted by RebelYell View Post
              I'm worried about Bradford's back. After he puts all that signing bonus money in his wallet, his back is going to be straining under all the weight.
              Excellent observation, RY. Being a Chiropractor, I, too, am quite concerned about the load capacity of Mr. Bradford's lumbar spine to function under such an enormous burden.

              Hence it is my recommendation that in order to alleviate some of the pressure on Mr. Bradford's lumbar discs and joints that he be instructed to, in a manner, 'share the load'.

              I hereby volunteer to take a proportionate share of the weight of his wallet for the time being until further notice.

              I feel its the least I can do to help the new QB of the Rams going forward.

              WHAT SAY YE?

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                Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

                What a reporter may look like:

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                  Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

                  Being an attorney, I must advise Bradford that a wallet that size is a hazard and violation of the "safe sidewalks" law ;). Oh **** it, just give me the money already, greedy *******.

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                  • #10
                    Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

                    Actually, I think it went like this.

                    "Say... did you hear that Bradford is part Native American?"

                    "Really, that's interesting. Let me Google that..."

                    "So, what did you find?"

                    "Let's see... Native Americans... First Thanksgiving.... General Custer... Battle of Wounded Knee."

                    "So Bradford has a wounded knee?"

                    "No, that's not what I said, I was just..."

                    "That's fine. I have a story idea!"

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                    • #11
                      Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

                      Originally posted by Bralidore(RAMMODE) View Post
                      I think the next story will be about concerns over Bradford's mental stability and sexual preferances...
                      Nah, Jimmy Clausen already has the market on concerns regarding mental stability. He may have the market on the other one as well, based on certain online photos... ;)

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                      • #12
                        Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

                        As long as there is no allegation that he has graduated frrom the Big Ben School of Judgment, i think we are in pretty good shape as far as known injury concerns and both mental stability and bedroom behavior.

                        The idea that any team would be influenced by any medical opinion other than that of the doctors that examine the guy on behalf of the team is a joke.

                        ramming speed to all

                        general counsel

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                          Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

                          A friend of mine's brother's uncle's dad's sister's boyfriend's brother said that he thought that Sean Weatherspoon has gout...ya that's it...he has gout. I'm sure of it!
                          "Gout is a medical condition that usually presents with recurrent attacks of acute inflammatory arthritis (red, tender, hot, swollen joints)."

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                          • #14
                            Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

                            Originally posted by HUbison View Post
                            fourteen hours ahead!!!! Good grief, man, who did we draft?!?!?! Who did we draft?!?!?
                            Oh, that silly little thing?

                            Gee, I seem to have forgotten.

                            Guess it wasn't really that important. ;)

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                              Re: National Football Post: Bradford's Knee An Issue

                              Originally posted by Bralidore(RAMMODE) View Post
                              I think the next story will be about concerns over Bradford's mental stability and sexual preferances...
                              Well....he does want to play for us.;)

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                                Meeting with reporters for the first time since the injury, Bradford said his first reaction to the news he had torn his ACL was something along the lines of: "You've got to be kidding me."

                                After a pause, he continued.

                                "I'm not sure I could really describe how it felt," he said. "It was just really tough to put all the work in and then to have it happen again."

                                That's because the knee didn't feel that bad after he absorbed a first-quarter hit from Cleveland defensive end Armonty Bryant in the Rams' Aug. 23 preseason game. Bradford wasn't carted off the field. He walked under his own power, limping slightly, from the field into the visitors locker room at FirstEnergy Stadium.

                                He was moving around pretty well after that game. He told teammates he was OK. Even coach Jeff Fisher took the bait to a degree, sounding optimistic in his post-game press conference that night.

                                "I didn't feel like it was torn at all," Bradford said.

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                                The MRI exam the next day back in St. Louis told a different story. Torn anterior cruciate ligament in the same knee he injured last Oct. 20 at Carolina. Out for the season. Again.

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                                Bradford said he will spend his time around the team post-surgery, once he begins the long arduous rehab process.

                                "I enjoy being around here," he said. "Hopefully, the guys and Shaun (Hill) enjoy having me around. It's gonna be pretty similar to last year.

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                                EARTH CITY, Mo. -- St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford doesn't know what his NFL future holds and says he hasn't thought about it in the time since suffering a second torn ACL in his left knee in as many years.

                                Speaking to reporters for the first time since suffering the injury in the Rams' third preseason game Aug. 23 against Cleveland, an emotional Bradford made it clear his only focus right now is having the surgery to repair the knee and beginning work on the ensuing rehab.

                                "I haven't even thought that far ahead," Bradford said. "It's still pretty hard to comprehend right now. I think it will be good once I have the surgery because the rehab process will give me something to focus on and something to put my attention towards."

                                Bradford also acknowledged he's still trying to digest what happened in Cleveland. While he immediately felt the pain and knew something was wrong when he was hurt against Carolina on Oct. 20 last year, he said he felt no such sensation when he fell this time.

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                                "That's what was kind of tough for me to comprehend because it was so much different than last year's injury," Bradford said. "There wasn't any pain, there was no swelling, there were no signs that the knee had gone through any sort of trauma, so to find out my ACL was torn was even that much harder to believe."

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                                Bradford has yet to watch the play on game film, and doesn’t plan to.

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                                Interesting to note that he favoured the left leg while walking off....
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