Legette. Wrist surgery?

[raleigh-panther]

Is this happening 

if it is..why wait

he seemed  to be hurt with something from OTAs on 

[MHS831]

15 minutes ago, raleigh-panther said:

Is this happening 

if it is..why wait

he seemed  to be hurt with something from OTAs on 

If we had reporters covering this team who were worth their weight in salt, we'd know.  This is an lingering injury from 2021 that he re-aggravated week 9--He claimed to need surgery on December 12.  David Newton and Joe Person should be all over this until they have a response--which should take one phone call

[kungfoodude]

24 minutes ago, raleigh-panther said:

Is this happening 

if it is..why wait

he seemed  to be hurt with something from OTAs on 

It's a repetitive injury from skinning too many squirrels.

[jb2288]

I imagine there is a good reason for it but between Brooks waiting a long time for his ACL surgery and whatever is going on here, it does seem weird. XL needs the jugs more than anyone on the team, if this wrist thing holds him out until TC that’s pretty bad. XL could be a #1 if he learns to stop body cradling everything, but that takes a ton ton ton of reps 

[kungfoodude]

7 minutes ago, jb2288 said:

I imagine there is a good reason for it but between Brooks waiting a long time for his ACL surgery and whatever is going on here, it does seem weird. XL needs the jugs more than anyone on the team, if this wrist thing holds him out until TC that’s pretty bad. XL could be a #1 if he learns to stop body cradling everything, but that takes a ton ton ton of reps 

The issue I think most have(myself included) is why are you having to train a 5 year college player and 1st round WR how to catch the ball?

[LinvilleGorge]

40 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

If we had reporters covering this team who were worth their weight in salt, we'd know.  This is an lingering injury from 2021 that he re-aggravated week 9--He claimed to need surgery on December 12.  David Newton and Joe Person should be all over this until they have a response--which should take one phone call

Yeah, there's really no quality media coverage of this team but I mean, I guess it's understandable. Bad, small market team and virtually all legacy media is dying out already? I mean, not exactly a recipe for getting quality coverage. But yeah, you'd think somebody would try to follow up with the team on this issue. You have your most recent top draft pick who struggled with catching the ball as a rookie who openly talked about likely needing off-season surgery on his wrist to fix a lingering injury issue and evidently no one covering the team has thought it worth their time to try to get some clarification on the issue.

[jb2288]

24 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

The issue I think most have(myself included) is why are you having to train a 5 year college player and 1st round WR how to catch the ball?

I don’t disagree with you. My pick was Ladd and I hated DM for passing on him but giving XL a fair chance. I used to get in arguments in the game threads because people would say I’m dumb for pointing out XL doesn’t even extend his arms on balls he can’t catch at least trying to draw PI or potentially break up an INT. There’s some basic basic stuff he does not do, and at his age it’s concerning. Let’s hope he gets it figured out 

[mrcompletely11]

49 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Yeah, there's really no quality media coverage of this team but I mean, I guess it's understandable. Bad, small market team and virtually all legacy media is dying out already? I mean, not exactly a recipe for getting quality coverage. But yeah, you'd think somebody would try to follow up with the team on this issue. You have your most recent top draft pick who struggled with catching the ball as a rookie who openly talked about likely needing off-season surgery on his wrist to fix a lingering injury issue and evidently no one covering the team has thought it worth their time to try to get some clarification on the issue.

Local media has always sucked.   I could tell my tom Sorenson story again but yall have heard it enough

 

 

[MHS831]

3 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Local media has always sucked.   I could tell my tom Sorenson story again but yall have heard it enough

 

 

In college, (grad school) I worked at the Observer on weekends.  I got to know Sorenson, Ron Greene, Rick Bonnell, David Poole, etc. very well.  I worked with Bonnell the most (he was great) and he was all over stories.  In fact, I talked to a drunk Jim Valvano once (Rick had me calling him to get a story while he covered a Hornets game) when it was rumored that Valvano was going to coach the Nets.  As I was talking to Valvano (he had a crowd of people with him--I could barely hear him), Bonnell walked in from the game and I waved him over.  10 minutes later, it was on ESPN that "according to Rick Bonnell and the Charlotte Observer, Jim Valvano will be the Coach of the NBA's Nets..."  Rick called me the next day to tell me what happened.  "We had to retract that story.  Valvano was drunk and said that to get some laughs in front of his guests in his hotel room." The Nets had reported that Valvano and the Nets had struck a "deal in principal," but Valvano's attorney had not confirmed it , so Rick called Valvano directly (don't know how he got the hotel room #).  Valvano told Rick he was going be the next Nets coach (at the time, he was an ESPN analyst).  Rick said, "He called today.  He said he doesn't remember it at all."  Funny, to me.  Rick was not that amused.   I was just proud to be a part of it.

[MHS831]

3 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Local media has always sucked.   I could tell my tom Sorenson story again but yall have heard it enough

 

 

I do not recall that story.  I used to know Tom.

[mrcompletely11]

15 minutes ago, MHS831 said:

I do not recall that story.  I used to know Tom.

 

I've told this story on here before but in in the early 2000's after a panther game my friends and I ran into Tom Sorenson of the Charlotte Observer at the southend brewery.  He sat with us for a while and at some point he was asked directly about why the CO wasnt more critical of Jerry Richardson.   He basically said Charlotte is a nice quiet southern town and the people here didnt want those types of stories or those types of reporters/columnists that cause drama.  I am obviously paraphrasing but we asked about why the paper wasnt going after shinn and the hornets harder as well when he was going through his troubles and all the crappy moves they made.  He just said there is not an audience for that.   We argued and argued and he just didnt understand.  Maybe he was playing dumb but I remember being incredulous at the time that the people in the media thought that asking hard questions would turn off readers

[Aussie Tank]

2 hours ago, mrcompletely11 said:

 

I've told this story on here before but in in the early 2000's after a panther game my friends and I ran into Tom Sorenson of the Charlotte Observer at the southend brewery.  He sat with us for a while and at some point he was asked directly about why the CO wasnt more critical of Jerry Richardson.   He basically said Charlotte is a nice quiet southern town and the people here didnt want those types of stories or those types of reporters/columnists that cause drama.  I am obviously paraphrasing but we asked about why the paper wasnt going after shinn and the hornets harder as well when he was going through his troubles and all the crappy moves they made.  He just said there is not an audience for that.   We argued and argued and he just didnt understand.  Maybe he was playing dumb but I remember being incredulous at the time that the people in the media thought that asking hard questions would turn off readers

Athletes and Front offices are sooks IMO. Asking tough questions has a higher likelihood of a reporter getting blacklisted. And there goes the food on his table 

[kungfoodude]

7 hours ago, Aussie Tank said:

Athletes and Front offices are sooks IMO. Asking tough questions has a higher likelihood of a reporter getting blacklisted. And there goes the food on his table 

This is the more common type of reporter overall in the US, not just in sports. It's not new but it is the overwhelming majority, which was not always the case.

I haven't seen an industry be as destroyed by modern times as journalism in my lifetime. Maybe textiles.

[Icege]

My brothers in Christ, we have had search engines since the 1990s.

BEHOLD, THE ANSWER YOU SEEK

tldr; looks like he might still be waiting but did have a procedure on his foot (for those that don't recall, he had hurt his foot in training camp).
 

 

Edited February 17 by Icege