Teddy Bruschi says you shouldn't reveal information about injuries if you don't have to.

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I don’t know this Teddy Bruschi character, but all I could think about was how cool it was that he’s wearing a Nu-Tra pomp.

by mister serious on Aug 31, 2011 8:55 PM EDT reply actions

I don’t know this Teddy Bruschi character

Are you serious?

Pittsburgh is just jealous. We got Cudi and they have Wiz.

by SpecialBrownie on Aug 31, 2011 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Obviously he is.

by Bernie19Kosar on Aug 31, 2011 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs

haha rec

by HenryDawg on Sep 1, 2011 9:14 AM EDT up reply actions

It’s pretty stupid to get that worked up over it.

Maybe… just maybe, if your a Texans coach I could understand being somewhat upset about this.

But as an obscure guest to a radio host that is already widely considered an over-the-top moron anyhow, makes little sense pile on by caring that much about a tweet that concerns you in no way.
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by Simmsinns on Sep 1, 2011 12:10 AM EDT reply actions

But as an obscure guest to a radio host that is already widely considered an over-the-top moron anyhow

Who, Teddy? I like his analyses.

Pittsburgh is just jealous. We got Cudi and they have Wiz.

by SpecialBrownie on Sep 1, 2011 9:12 AM EDT up reply actions

widely considered an over-the-top moron

only on DBN.

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by Dawg Nuts on Sep 2, 2011 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, here and the rest of the world.

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by Simmsinns on Sep 3, 2011 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

if he didn’t get good ratings, they wouldn’t keep increasing his air time with the network.

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by Dawg Nuts on Sep 3, 2011 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Jersey Shore got good ratings. What’s that tell you about good ratings?

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by Simmsinns on Sep 3, 2011 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Not to mention that Toddlers and Tiaras is somehow still on the air.

by emily522 on Sep 6, 2011 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions

I saw a commercial for that show a few weeks back… disgusting.

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by Simmsinns on Sep 7, 2011 9:15 AM EDT up reply actions

good rating =/= intelligence.

cautiously realistic

by North Coast Flea on Sep 3, 2011 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions

I never said it did, but obviously a lot of people find him entertaining and tune in when he’s on, or they wouldn’t keep increasing his air time. I like him and find him entertaining. Whether you hate ESPN or not, they’re doing something right because their brand has grown like crazy, and they know how to get/keep viewers; and they have increased his air time since he’s been with the company. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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by Dawg Nuts on Sep 3, 2011 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions

a lot of people do find him entertaining, but I am willing to bet a lot on the fact that if he wasn’t so controversial, his ratings would be much lower. Its no coincidence that some of the most controversial and polarizing talk show hosts are the ones that get the highest ratings. There is a significant contingent of all these talk show hosts that tune in because they don’t like the guy, whether to listen to the host’s opinions and refute them in their mind or to call in and criticize. I am not going to say its a majority of their viewership because I honestly don’t know, but it plays a significant factor in it.

Its a fact of talk radio, and often of news and infotainment in general that controversy sells and people eat it up, whether they think you are right or wrong

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by bross09 on Sep 3, 2011 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions

I think this is greatly overblown. I don’t think injury information is as important as these guys say (including Billicks terrible poker analogy this morning on Mike and Mike). When Mangini used to do this injury shell game thingy it was kind of embarrassing. Usually something is known about an injury before the fact and exact nature of an injury is rarely crucial information. A team would be stupid to completely base its preparation on injury information.

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by Brownsyup on Sep 1, 2011 10:27 AM EDT reply actions

Yeah, for the Colts to not prepare for Foster, as Tedy suggests as the negative impact here, would be really freaking stupid. Purely based on the possibility that this whole thing could be a scheme. The Colts have to prepare anyway, just to be safe. Which eliminates the apparent negative. If the Colts are really dumb enough to bank on this single tweet and don’t prepare for Foster in week 1, than the tweet is brilliant. Again, eliminating the apparent negative.

This is really pointless overreaction.

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by Simmsinns on Sep 1, 2011 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions

I see the wrong “then/than” too.

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by Simmsinns on Sep 1, 2011 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions

A team would be stupid to completely base its preparation on injury information.

Yes, but with the information they have they can at least have a section prepared in case the Texans don’t have him. You don’t go into a game with 54 different gameplans in case any player or no players get hurt. You might go into a game with 2 in case the one guy can’t play.

I loved what Mangini did with injuries: he’s “got a leg”, he’s “got an arm”, the other team can’t localize where the injury is and try to target it. He kept his guys safe. Not only do opposing players know Foster’s hammy is busted, but specifically where on his hamstring the damage is.

I don’t think a guy like Bruschi would react this was if it weren’t something he had known from his time with the Patriots. Cowherd, well, kind of sucks. But Bruschi knows what he’s talking about.

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by rufio on Sep 1, 2011 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions

I’ll reiterate, it’ll be the Colts mistake to bank a gameplan on a twitpic that may or may not be a joke.

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by Simmsinns on Sep 1, 2011 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions

They won’t bank on it, they will have a contingency plan for it. You don’t bank on being down 4 with less than 1 minute left at the 50 yard line, but you sure as hell prepare for it.

You can watch damn near 8 hours of video that I posted a link to in a fanshot where coaches are talking about how to run one freaking play. You don’t think these guys will take 4 hours to come up with a list of things to do if Foster is out?

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by rufio on Sep 1, 2011 6:17 PM EDT up reply actions

I think it’s the kind of thing they should prepare for anyway, considering everyone and their mothers knew he had a hamstring issue, even before the tweet.

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by Simmsinns on Sep 1, 2011 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions

I can understand the thinking behind that, and I don’t mind it for injuries that aren’t widely known. For example a guy gets dinged up, but it wasn’t obvious to everyone.

As for Foster, everyone knew from the get-go that his hammy was busted. I don’t think the MRI was revealing any great secrets. I sure as hell don’t want any Browns doing this though.

by Bernie19Kosar on Sep 1, 2011 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Are there rules about blatantly lying to throw the opposition off?

If not, I’d like to start seeing Browns players tweet pictures of various hamstring x-rays every few hours.

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by Simmsinns on Sep 1, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions

No, and Bruschi brought up that point. I don’t think Foster is smart enough to have thought of it.

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by rufio on Sep 1, 2011 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Players will know exactly where to put their elbows/forearms as they push on the pile to stand up instead of vaguely where. I’ve pulled a hamstring and it’s felt fine everywhere except one point high up near my butt. I assume other pulls would feel the same way, only with a different localization.

When you can go after exactly where that damage to the muscle is, I don’t think its exactly helping the guy heal.

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by rufio on Sep 1, 2011 6:15 PM EDT up reply actions

If the Colts use their team’s doctors to analyze the twitpic and give a suggestion as to where to push an elbow in order to aggravate the injury, then
1. The entire NFL has bigger problems than twitter,
2. Everyone involved in such activity (doctors, players, coaches) are worthless piles of shit human beings.

Personally, I don’t think the players are intelligent enough to look at the x-ray themselves and determine where exactly the weak / sensitive spot is. Again, they already should have known he had a hammy issue.

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by Simmsinns on Sep 1, 2011 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions