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His injury may be career threatening. Our front office loves to gamble on injured players. The only time this ever works out for us (since Deuce) is gambling on QBs with injuries so serious they may never play effectively again. If Tua has a Bo Jackson level injury he could fall to the end of the round or later. Teddy may be ready to get paid and Brees may not be ready to hang em up so Tua could be the new successor. Just saying, I know no team more willing to make the gamble than us.

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Nope.

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Let’s just hope the kid’s ok before we start hoping his draft stock plummets.

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Holy smokes that was a quick hot take.

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Dude sucked before injury. Besides we have J.T. Barrett waiting to take the reins.

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Dislocated hip. Out for the season. Checking for a possible fracture, as well. Not good news for the kid. This is the inherent danger for running QB's.

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No thanks. Not to mention he would be stupid to leave this year. He can’t do anything but help is status staying. Did I mention I hate Alabama?

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He is injury prone...and he will struggle more that Murray in the NFL...hard pass!

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In other news, Baylor just channeled their Inner Falcon and blew a 28-3 lead vs Oklahoma. Dangit Bears.

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You need to look no further than the Saints to know that an apparently catastrophic injury need not be a career ending one.

"This surgery was an absolute gut test, a test of what you're made of, and I've seen it break people down. I never saw it break Teddy down. ... Most people have no idea the volume of the workload this kid had to put in. He had a toothpick of a leg he had to rebuild."
Dan Cooper, Teddy Bridgewater's surgeon.

"But it's certainly the worst knee dislocation in sports I've ever seen without having a nerve or vessel injury," Cooper said. "It's an injury that about 20-25 percent of NFL players are able to come back from. ... It's a horrific injury. You've torn every single thing in your knee and it's hanging on by one ligament on one side like a hinge."

Bridgewater had been referred to the surgeon by former Cowboys coach Bill Parcells, who had become something of a father confessor to the quarterback. Parcells told the doctor that Bridgewater was one of the greatest kids he'd ever met.[/I]


The trade makes more sense to ME now.

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No it's not...ANY running player can suffer that injury. Cam, Lamar, Deshaun, Vick, Aaron, haven't suffered dislocated hips....but BO Jackson did.

Tua previous lower body injuries before this and who's to say this could've been a lingering injury. Dislocated hips aren't a common QB injury for a pocket passer or running QB

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In previous eras a bum hip wouldn't be a major concern for a QB. But now with sports science and Brees and Dak and lots of other QB's concentrating on generating throw power from their hip motion to improve accuracy, it's a much bigger concern.

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He's not the future in New Orleans. We don't run his type of offense.

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Trade all of our draft picks to move from #32 to #1 and draft LSU QB Burrows?

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Are we getting Burrows and Tua? I read all 175 replies to the "Brees is Done" thread so I know that we need someone. But do we need both?

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If you have been reading correctly, obviously we do. :goodidea:

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Present day Troy Aikman / Steve Walsh draft!!

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"We need to stop winning immediately and start tanking so we can get Burrow. Drew is messing everything up by trying to pad his stats! Why does Payton hate LSU players!"

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....... Bum Hip ........?

Didn't we have "Faith & Hope" for him at one time?

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Classic bumper sticker back then. Faith, Hope and Bum. Had one on our truck.
Then came the Coulda, woulda, shoulda No Mora excuses sticker. Still have 1 of those in my garage.

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Unrelated injury but he wasn't "right" vs LSU either.

I hope all goes well for Tua in his surgery/rehab. Modern medicine is remarkable these days so all the best to him going forward.

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No. You didn't just mention Dak and Drew in the same sentence. HAD to be a brain hiccup! LOL

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I never liked Tua, I dont like any Alabama QB, but Tua wont make it in the NFL even when healthy, neither will Jalen Hurts in OK.

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It isn't a bad theory that Tua is very injury prone. I think he is more injury prone that the typical QB, specially in his legs and butt(which greatly need some muscle added to them). The two surgeries he had will make it far less likely that he will ever have the same injury again in either leg. If you notice how he actually fell in that game, he kind of trapped his leg and knee and it pushed into his hip... which is why it dislocated. He tries to do too much when he's about to be hit. This injury had nothing to do with his physique or his bodies proneness to injury, but trying to do too much and fall in an incorrect way. QBs have to know how to get hit. You ever notice when Brees is about to be hit, he puts his body in a very tight, tucked position. This is something that has been learned, and Tua needs to learn it as well. I love Saban as a coach, but he's not the greatest when it comes to developing QBs. Payton would work wonders with Tua. I think Burrow has the highest ceiling in the draft, but celings don't matter if you don't have the right teacher. I think Payton and Tua would work well together.