Gronowski has a bad shoulder - out until June

[Fryowa]

That's a sad story about your co-workers wife. But I know it can happen. My personality is like that -- get me some pain pills or muscle relaxants and I wanna be on 'em for the rest of my livin' days.

The scary thing was that I could function perfectly well, it just made me feel like a million bucks. But…eventually the tolerance just gets bigger and bigger if you do it long enough and then you start having major problems. Take enough of that stuff to keep chasing the feeling, and all the sudden your HR and breathing get way too low, you start getting high instead of just feeling good, and that’s all she wrote. Obviously things like driving and being responsible are impossible. It’s a damn good thing it’s not an over the counter product or a lot of us would be dead or in big, big trouble.

After the surgery I had that got me the pills prescribed, I got a blood clot in my lung which was 10x more painful than the surgery itself. Ended up in the hospital for 2 weeks from it. They gave me one of those morphine pumps where you can hit the button once every hour because I literally couldn’t take it at one point. Ive got a super low resting pulse to begin with and remember setting the alarm off multiple times when I was sleeping because my HR would drop to like 40. I’d wake myself up too from not breathing like I should’ve been. Super scary and I can see how people just take a bunch of that stuff, go to sleep, and never wake up.

I’ve never taken muscle relaxers but I’ve heard they’re pretty bad for a lot of people.

 

[Gibsonian]

That's a sad story about your co-workers wife. But I know it can happen. My personality is like that -- get me some pain pills or muscle relaxants and I wanna be on 'em for the rest of my livin' days.

Totally the opposite here, the opioid pain meds do nothing for me approaching good. No idea why anyone would want to continue taking these nor get hooked on em. My makeup must be quite different from most Americans, don't like any that I've taken over the years post surgery, etc. Trash drugs imo. No way I'd ever get hooked as I cannot wait to stop taking them.

 

[Fryowa]

Totally the opposite here, the opioid pain meds do nothing for me approaching good. No idea why anyone would want to continue taking these nor get hooked on em. My makeup must be quite different from most Americans, don't like any that I've taken over the years post surgery, etc. Trash drugs imo. No way I'd ever get hooked as I cannot wait to stop taking them.

I wish everyone was like that. I feel 10 feet tall and bulletproof.

I think it comes down to individual makeup like you said. I had an aunt who couldn't take anything with Benadryl in it because it made her hyper and couldn't sleep. Just the opposite of what it does to most people.

 

[SwirlinLingerie]

Agreed. Before the injury was disclosed, though, I figured at a bare minimum Iowa would get an average, competent performance from him. A big, mobile guy who could manage a game, wouldn't turn it over much, and was a great leader. And that would be a major step up from past seasons for Iowa. That was the baseline.

I know I am bringing the Cade-bias into play here, but the baseline has dropped for me. Like it's way too easy to imagine a scenario where he sort of sucks the first few games, and the narrative is all about how he is still trying to develop timing with his WRs, he missed the past 6 months, Iowa's coaches are trying to let him work through it by playing him, etc.

Maybe combine that with a hard hit or two on the shoulder, and we also start hearing how he is trying to get his confidence back, doesn't trust his shoulder, changing his mechanics a bit due to that, etc.....and again, how the coaches are trying to build that confidence back up by playing him in games.

All of which might be fair. Or maybe some of it is his rust combined with a struggle to adjust to the speed of the pass rush at the next level and the closing ability of Big 10 defensive backs.

Like I said, I'm already having flashbacks here, some of which might not be rational.

I do think this is more of a true competition now, because to Lester's credit, there is some real depth with that position group. And those guys have a 6 month head start to close the gap on the presumed #1.

Gulp