re: CFN Columnist Tweets about Possible Meniscus Tear for AJ

A meniscal injury can be bad or not so bad. It depends on if it is stable or not. If it is a small tear this could be nothing. But there are meniscal tears that are unstable and can cause a lot of problems. Eventually, he will get degenerative change because he is losing his shock absorber. All of these football players have pain in their futures.

I've seen 20 something year olds with knees that look like 60 something. That is how bad football is for yor body.

Most likely he will be fine as long as it is an isolated injury.

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guys play hurt at bama. It happens when you don't have a team full of pussys

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McCarron was hurt last year at the Arkansas game and played through the year, including the BCS win against LSU. He had surgery on this shoulder 3 days after. LINK

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How impressive was AJ McCarron’s performance against LSU in the BCS title game? He had surgery on his shoulder three days later.

In fact, McCarron’s whole season was pretty remarkable, and not just because he led Alabama to the national championship as a first-year starter. On Sept. 24, on the seventh play against Arkansas, he dislocated the shoulder on his throwing arm and sprained the AC joint and the labrum. He was often in so much pain that he couldn’t practice. Yet, when then-Crimson Tide offensive coordinator Jim McElwain told him that the gameplan for the rematch with the Tigers would involve a heavy dose of passing, McCarron just bit down on a chunk of leather and let it fly.

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McElroy played in the 2009 BCS game with cracked ribs. LINK

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ma quarterback Greg McElroy played the national championship game with a hairline crack in at least one rib. Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said Friday that the injury was "a little bit of a nuisance" to McElroy at times. But he said the quarterback never came close to having to leave the Tide's 37-21 victory over Texas on Thursday night.

Saban said the injury didn't show up on X-rays but was spotted during a bone scan. He said didn't say exactly when McElroy was injured, only that the quarterback had the problem "for quite awhile."

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