Darkiller
02-01-2003, 06:52 PM
In the NFL, as in FOF, it happens that a player -in the midst of a potentialy great career- gets injured very seriously.
I'm thinking of all those RBs whose careers were cut short because of devastating ACL injuries or others (necrosis etc..)
examples are famous : Bo Jackson, Terrell Davis and many others.
A case could be made that Edgerrin James' career might go in flames now, one year removed from his season-ending injury : he is clearly not the same back as of now.
It is being said that a player needs a full year of recovery after the injury to get back to 100% (or close to that). So as far as James is concerned, we'll see next season if he's any better than in 2002.
Now let's go back to FOF :
We know that when a player is badly injured, his ratings drop a lot and and he when he's back healthy, he may-or may not recover his "red bars".
So, have you ever had player that had a devastating injury, was lost for the season (or more) and bounced back the following year with a...career year, as a matter of fact.
It happened to me once :
my 5th year All-League RB blew his knee in the second game of the season and was out until the following year : he was placed on injured reserve immediately of course.
His ratings (almost maxed out before the injury), dropped by more than 35% and stayed that way the next year.
He came back, and guess what : rushed for a league record 2009 yards and 15 TDs.
(this is the best I've ever had a RB in any season of any career).
Interestingly enough, or odd enough, the very next year, he had only 847 yards and 3 TDs behind the same OL.
(my coach called the plays and handed him the ball just 199 times against 338 the year he set the record, why ? I don't know...)
But basically that was it :
- devastating injury to the RB
- loses more than 35% of rating points
- comes back 12 months later and sets the NFL rushing record with over 2000 yards despite being supposedly "less strong".
I found that quite amazing, have you ever had anything similar ?
I'm thinking of all those RBs whose careers were cut short because of devastating ACL injuries or others (necrosis etc..)
examples are famous : Bo Jackson, Terrell Davis and many others.
A case could be made that Edgerrin James' career might go in flames now, one year removed from his season-ending injury : he is clearly not the same back as of now.
It is being said that a player needs a full year of recovery after the injury to get back to 100% (or close to that). So as far as James is concerned, we'll see next season if he's any better than in 2002.
Now let's go back to FOF :
We know that when a player is badly injured, his ratings drop a lot and and he when he's back healthy, he may-or may not recover his "red bars".
So, have you ever had player that had a devastating injury, was lost for the season (or more) and bounced back the following year with a...career year, as a matter of fact.
It happened to me once :
my 5th year All-League RB blew his knee in the second game of the season and was out until the following year : he was placed on injured reserve immediately of course.
His ratings (almost maxed out before the injury), dropped by more than 35% and stayed that way the next year.
He came back, and guess what : rushed for a league record 2009 yards and 15 TDs.
(this is the best I've ever had a RB in any season of any career).
Interestingly enough, or odd enough, the very next year, he had only 847 yards and 3 TDs behind the same OL.
(my coach called the plays and handed him the ball just 199 times against 338 the year he set the record, why ? I don't know...)
But basically that was it :
- devastating injury to the RB
- loses more than 35% of rating points
- comes back 12 months later and sets the NFL rushing record with over 2000 yards despite being supposedly "less strong".
I found that quite amazing, have you ever had anything similar ?