Any word on Moss?

[Northside Hawk]

I've seen that it's a possible PCL strain/sprain/tear elsewhere.

My own context...I'm currently walking around with a partially torn PCL. Apparently it was torn a while ago and it must have been some sports injury (read: rec league basketball, slow pitch softball, nothing like what Moss is doing) that the docs missed when they diagnosed because I never got an MRI. Well, I tweaked my knee recently and had a ton of pain and a little bit of "fear" around stability...got the MRI because the x-ray didn't reveal anything. Knee specialist said it's possible that I tweaked my PCL/made it a little worse, but that they could somehow tell that it was from an older injury. Anyway, I'm a 42 year old man and it took me about a month before I felt good about my knee again and probably about 6 weeks before I felt like I could run. Not great context, because I'm not going to ask my knee to anything near what Moss is, but I'm also not a 21 year old kid in the prime of my athletic career. So take that all for what it's worth...

tl;dr - I'm old. My PCL got tweaked. I was out around 6 weeks. Riley Moss is not old. Hopefully a month at worst.

Just turned 56 recently. I had to finally give up running two years ago to save my knees for my job and general well being. I miss running but don't miss the increasing frequency of knee and leg problems (plantar facsitis, IT band inflammation, turf toe, heel spurs, the whole she-bang)

 

[uihawk82]

That’s what I said from the beginning. He was so ramped up that he didn’t realize he was hurt when he first got up.

Moss's knees hit the ground after the interception and if you keep following the play Moss's legs sort of bend and then Dotson lands on his legs and really compresses the knees. Moss took some heavy hits making that play and we hope it is only a strain/sprain of soft tissue.

 

[BigD]

Moss's knees hit the ground after the interception and if you keep following the play Moss's legs sort of bend and then Dotson lands on his legs and really compresses the knees. Moss took some heavy hits making that play and we hope it is only a strain/sprain of soft tissue.

Well hopefully he will just miss the Purdue game. Then the bye and hopefully he will be back the week after that.

I hope the coaching staff will find a way to get the players motivated and ready for Purdue after such a huge game against Penn State. In this conference there is not one team that can be taken lightly. We have a big number “2” on our backs and for the teams we have left this may be the game of the year for them. Their bowl game. Their way of proving they can play with and beat the best.

From here on out we are everyone’s Penn State game. They all will put out extra effort in practices to prepare for us. They will leave blood on the field just to beat us.

So all hands on deck and hopefully every player can recover from injuries and be able to contribute.

 

[longtimer]

Overall we have been more than lucky with injuries. Roberts is going to be a very good player and what he lacks in experience makes up with speed and talent

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Whether he hurt it on the celebration or not, maybe Iowa DB's should stop celebrating after interceptions.

Moss gets hurt. Hankins gets a penalty for an interception that he should have just dropped on 4th down. Just grab the interception and then just hand the ball to the ref.

Yea, but it wasn't like he was jumping around going crazy. I didn't see him do anything different than start trotting to the sideline, which he would have done after any play. I think this was about as flukiest of flukes as it gets. I didn't see anything dangerous he was doing.

Nobody was around him. No freaky jumping, no team pile-on. Nothing.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

A couple weeks is 10x better than I feared, whew.

I also have to say I was unconvinced that he injured it during the celebration - it was weird timing for sure, but I saw nothing in the celebration that looked like it would account for an injury.

He got hurt during the play but, with the adrenaline and excitement, it took him a couple seconds to notice how bad it hurt. Looked strange, but is more plausible than it happening during the celebration, i think.

Absolutely this. It clearly happened on the play, he popped up excited than realized something just didn't feel quite right. I thought that even watching it live.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Purdue and then the bye week Terry Roberts is more than capable of holding it down until then.

Terry Roberts is a stud. He's consistently the first down the field on return coverage. He's also a very good CB. Luckily, Iowa has productive depth at CB. The 2nd deep guy after Roberts is the transfer from UNI who has experience and started for UNI.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Well hopefully he will just miss the Purdue game. Then the bye and hopefully he will be back the week after that.

I hope the coaching staff will find a way to get the players motivated and ready for Purdue after such a huge game against Penn State. In this conference there is not one team that can be taken lightly. We have a big number “2” on our backs and for the teams we have left this may be the game of the year for them. Their bowl game. Their way of proving they can play with and beat the best.

From here on out we are everyone’s Penn State game. They all will put out extra effort in practices to prepare for us. They will leave blood on the field just to beat us.

So all hands on deck and hopefully every player can recover from injuries and be able to contribute.

I honestly don't think this is going to be a problem with this team. I just have the feeling they are so focused this year. They luv competing with each other!

 

[ChosenChildren]

Roberts and Castro are future DB stars.

We will be all right. We do want Moss back for the Badgers because of his tremendous experience.

If we play hard and do not turn the ball over, we will defeat Purdue. They are not as good as Penn State, Iowa State or even Indiana, in my humble opinion.

 

[Fryowa]

He got hurt during the play but, with the adrenaline and excitement, it took him a couple seconds to notice how bad it hurt. Looked strange, but is more plausible than it happening during the celebration, i think.

Different than football, but a coworker got shot in Iraq. Was sitting in a vehicle, bullet went through the door, grazed the top of one thigh enough to give him stitches, went in the other thigh about an inch deep and came out the other side of his leg. No arteries, just skin and muscle damage. Didn't even go home., just to Kuwait to get fixed up and he was good to go a couple weeks later.

Anyway, he said he heard the bang of it hitting the door, felt a little sting and saw blood but it didn't hurt. Said he got out and ran like a motherfucker for about 150 yds behind the wall of a courtyard where I guess friendly people were staged. Once he got there he fell down and it hurt so bad he couldn't even walk, said it felt like someone stabbed him and poured salt in it. He also told us that he had 70 some pounds of gear and a rifle in his hands, and he would've passed Usain Bolt like he was standing still. We laugh our asses off in the office when he tells the story. I kinda believe it, too. When you're scared absolutely shitless it's like your body has a couple extra gears.

Moral of the story, adrenaline is a hell of a drug. Riley Moss didn't get shot obviously, but he just picked off a pass in a top5 game in front of tens of million people. It would probably take a few seconds for that shit to set in.

Also, I'm going to assume that most of us have either been kicked in the jewels or taken a pretty solid nut shot in our lives at some point. Remember, it takes a good 5-7 seconds for that to register in your brain before it becomes incapacitating. It's like nature is playing a cruel joke on males by letting them know for a few seconds that they got hit in the nuts so we can live in fear knowing it's coming...and then...BOOM

 

[Luftgekuehlt67]

Different than football, but a coworker got shot in Iraq. Was sitting in a vehicle, bullet went through the door, grazed the top of one thigh enough to give him stitches, went in the other thigh about an inch deep and came out the other side of his leg. No arteries, just skin and muscle damage. Didn't even go home., just to Kuwait to get fixed up and he was good to go a couple weeks later.

Anyway, he said he heard the bang of it hitting the door, felt a little sting and saw blood but it didn't hurt. Said he got out and ran like a motherfucker for about 150 yds behind the wall of a courtyard where I guess friendly people were staged. Once he got there he fell down and it hurt so bad he couldn't even walk, said it felt like someone stabbed him and poured salt in it. He also told us that he had 70 some pounds of gear and a rifle in his hands, and he would've passed Usain Bolt like he was standing still. We laugh our asses off in the office when he tells the story. I kinda believe it, too. When you're scared absolutely shitless it's like your body has a couple extra gears.

Moral of the story, adrenaline is a hell of a drug. Riley Moss didn't get shot obviously, but he just picked off a pass in a top5 game in front of tens of million people. It would probably take a few seconds for that shit to set in.

Also, I'm going to assume that most of us have either been kicked in the jewels or taken a pretty solid nut shot in our lives at some point. Remember, it takes a good 5-7 seconds for that to register in your brain before it becomes incapacitating. It's like nature is playing a cruel joke on males by letting them know for a few seconds that they got hit in the nuts so we can live in fear knowing it's coming...and then...BOOM

Yup, exactly.

And, a lot of the time, pain in the body comes from the swelling around the injury rather than the injury itself. In Moss's case, it could have taken just a few seconds for that swelling to kick in.

 

[GesterHawk]

Well hopefully he will just miss the Purdue game. Then the bye and hopefully he will be back the week after that.

I hope the coaching staff will find a way to get the players motivated and ready for Purdue after such a huge game against Penn State. In this conference there is not one team that can be taken lightly. We have a big number “2” on our backs and for the teams we have left this may be the game of the year for them. Their bowl game. Their way of proving they can play with and beat the best.

From here on out we are everyone’s Penn State game. They all will put out extra effort in practices to prepare for us. They will leave blood on the field just to beat us.

So all hands on deck and hopefully every player can recover from injuries and be able to contribute.

Just make them watch last year's tape. Nothing could be more motivating than that.

 

[GesterHawk]

Also, I'm going to assume that most of us have either been kicked in the jewels or taken a pretty solid nut shot in our lives at some point. Remember, it takes a good 5-7 seconds for that to register in your brain before it becomes incapacitating. It's like nature is playing a cruel joke on males by letting them know for a few seconds that they got hit in the nuts so we can live in fear knowing it's coming...and then...BOOM

Unless your Petras taking a helmet to the nads. Then you get up, dust yourself off, sing the chorus to "Touch of Grey" and get back in the huddle.

 

[CP87]

Different than football, but a coworker got shot in Iraq. Was sitting in a vehicle, bullet went through the door, grazed the top of one thigh enough to give him stitches, went in the other thigh about an inch deep and came out the other side of his leg. No arteries, just skin and muscle damage. Didn't even go home., just to Kuwait to get fixed up and he was good to go a couple weeks later.

Anyway, he said he heard the bang of it hitting the door, felt a little sting and saw blood but it didn't hurt. Said he got out and ran like a motherfucker for about 150 yds behind the wall of a courtyard where I guess friendly people were staged. Once he got there he fell down and it hurt so bad he couldn't even walk, said it felt like someone stabbed him and poured salt in it. He also told us that he had 70 some pounds of gear and a rifle in his hands, and he would've passed Usain Bolt like he was standing still. We laugh our asses off in the office when he tells the story. I kinda believe it, too. When you're scared absolutely shitless it's like your body has a couple extra gears.

Moral of the story, adrenaline is a hell of a drug. Riley Moss didn't get shot obviously, but he just picked off a pass in a top5 game in front of tens of million people. It would probably take a few seconds for that shit to set in.

Also, I'm going to assume that most of us have either been kicked in the jewels or taken a pretty solid nut shot in our lives at some point. Remember, it takes a good 5-7 seconds for that to register in your brain before it becomes incapacitating. It's like nature is playing a cruel joke on males by letting them know for a few seconds that they got hit in the nuts so we can live in fear knowing it's coming...and then...BOOM

Worst ever was a paintball. I legitimately had to check to see if I was bleeding, half expected to find a split sack.

 

[Fryowa]

Worst ever was a paintball. I legitimately had to check to see if I was bleeding, half expected to find a split sack.

A friend of mine is kind of a weird dude and always had like 10 different side rackets going to make money. Anyway for a few years he had a "haunted grove" at his place where you could walk through with paintball guns and shoot at "zombies" and monsters, which was actually people dressed up that jump out from behind shit.

He talked me into being one of the zombies once and after the first night I said, F this, I'm outta here. I had Carhartt coveralls and coat on, and we even had pieces of carpet inside the legs and chest, and I still left with huge frickin welts all over me. Paintball sucks ass.