Ahmad Bradshaw: Two broken feet?
by Ed Valentine on Jan 2, 2010 11:28 AM EST
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PrintYou have to give Ahmad Bradshaw all the props in the world for what he done this season. We have known most of the season that he has been playing with a broken bone in one foot, and with bad ankles.
Now, Bradshaw revealed to the Star Ledger's Jenny Vrentas that he believes he has broken bones in both feet.
My style of running, just being able to be elusive and get away from people, is kind of hard on broken feet."
Bradshaw said "feet" because he now suspects the same injury he has played through in his right foot — a cracked fifth metatarsal, the bone on the outside of the foot — has developed in his left foot as well.
He said he hasn’t gotten official word that is the case, but Bradshaw said he feels the same discomfort he has in his right foot on the left side, so he thinks "more than likely" he’ll find out the same bone has been fractured.
As he spoke about this most recent medical issue Thursday, Bradshaw chuckled — a good-natured reflection on a season when a guy who runs for a living has had to manage injuries in both ankles and both feet. After the season ends Sunday at Minnesota, Bradshaw will have surgery to put a screw in his right foot, as well as his left foot if the bone is in fact broken, and will also have irritating bone spurs removed from his right ankle.
"I really can’t blame (anything) on my injuries, because I still got out there and did it every week and played," Bradshaw said. "A lot of things could have been a lot easier, I could say, with better feet. But I just had to fight through it, and like I said, I can’t blame it on the injuries. But I feel it could have been a 10 times better year with better feet."
Amazing what AB has done on broken feet and bad ankles. I wonder, though, if he will ever be completely healthy. His jarring, hard-cutting style is as tough on his legs as it is on defenses.
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Damn....
AB is a TOUGH BASTARD.
Really..really hope he gets this corrected and gets some better injury luck next year (as well as the other guys who are on the team…whoever they are).
In the 2010 NBA draft the NY Knicks select.....Nate Robinson. 5"9 PG from Pringles' Doghouse U!
Yeah, no kidding
He is a Tough lil SOB! I’ll give him a kudo for all that he’s played through. Alot of backs would’ve been shelved!
I've been preaching this since Jacobs went on IR
It’s going to be exciting to see what this kid can do when he will be getting the majority of the snaps in the final game. If I was TC I would sit AB for the final and let Gartrell and Danny Ware duke it out for the 3rd RB spot next year. Both won’t be back next season either with the return of Andre Brown.
That's jumping the gun
I think what type of player Brown will be is very questionable. An Achilles tendon tear, as I have said before, is a devastating injury for a guy who relies on quickness and cutting ability to make a living.
That's lousy
Given how bad the season has been,I think it might have been better had he been put on IR. There’s a chance that the second injury is related to the first. It certainly would have been better for ABm and really how big a diference did his presence make in terms of the Giants making the playoffs?
It's easy to say this now when the season is over
If AB was put on IR earlier in the season I am confident we would have won LESS games this season. AB was our BEST RB this season (even if he was playing injured). That is saying a lot about what kind of player he is and what kind of man he is as well.
Also, we were pretty close to making the playoffs the whole season until the Panthers gave us a beat down in Week 16. If we would have won that game we prob would have made the playoffs cause as it ends up…the Eagles have to really play against the Cowboys to lock up the #2 seed. If somehow we could beat the Vikings we would have snagged the final wild card spot. Things played out the way we wanted them to but we blew it against the Panthers.
I believe mine has always been the minority opinion, perhaps the lone opinion.
(I advocated IR from the first news re his injuries surfaced.) He’s a real warrior, and all things considered, he survived the season without suffering the kind of significant further damage he might have. I’m thankful for that.
This really worries me ...
reminds me of Shockey’s chronic ankle issues. Sometimes a player has such physical ability (remember AB carrying Woolfolk for 5 yds. in Supe XLII ?), but has a limiting issue somewhere in the body that can’t take the strain.
Hope that’s not the case with AB, as he is a stud.
I thought Shockey had chronic mouth issues?
by Step up and make big plays on Jan 3, 2010 11:24 AM EST up reply actions
Close, but no cigar, suambp. His injuries
to his ankle were the result of repeatedly putting his foot in his mouth
I know this is the NFL but how many injuries does this team really have hiden? Sure all teams go through this every season, but the Giants not only have countless players hurt, but they are pretty substantial injuries. Let’s get a new medical staff and strength and conditioning coaches for next season…
by Matthew Ventolo on Jan 2, 2010 12:29 PM EST reply actions
Hidden
Shoot, I think all teams have ‘hidden’ injuries. Guys all over the league are playing with things that don’t show up on the injury report. Giants are not any different.
With the state of our RB's, anyone else concerned
As we go into next year? Besides the drop in production, which is another story, but all of the injuries that they’ve had? Even before Jacobs knee, he’s always been dinged up, AB with his various injuries, Ware (in the doghouse?) and his elbow and the rookie Brown, who was out all year.
Whether they’re considered long or short term pieces to the running game, can we rely on all of these guys to be healthy? Even after a successful offseason of rehab, i’m a bit concerned. This group seems too fragile to at least not to address it one way or another!
I think..
like the whole team, its bad luck.
I don’t think there’s any doubt the FOUR RB"S!!!! they have are all talented.
But while everyone knew Jacobs was gonna get dinged up (he always is…), who knew the other 3 would be too?
Maybe Bradshaw too..but this is why they had 4RB’s!
I mean..Brown tears his Achilles? Danny (DJ?) Ware DISLOCATES his elbow on the first kickoff return of the season????????
Bad luck. Bad..bad luck.
Unless someone like CJ Spiller falls to them..or there is a Michael Turner out there in FA (maybe Michael Bush?..he’s always hurt too), I just don’t see a reason to go and get one.
I can definitely see, however, a 6th or 7th being spent on one.
There’s a chance someone like LeGarret Blount, the sucker puncher RB from Oregon, falls to possible undrafted range. He’s a 2nd-3rd round talent, a lot like a Jacobs type too.
In the 2010 NBA draft the NY Knicks select.....Nate Robinson. 5"9 PG from Pringles' Doghouse U!
A season of bad luck, bad playing, bad coaching and aging badly.
We were hit by all four furies of bad this year. Kind’ve due. Though you’d hope we could’ve held them off for another year. Alas, not. Now, I don’t like Jacobs coming back. I don’t like Jacobs. Period. Fun to watch him bowl folks over, but… well, he won’t be doing that much anymore. Most RBs on average last what? Four years? And most don’t punish their bodies like he did. He’s done. I believe this thoroughly. Why I don’t like him? He’s got a big mouth and seems fairly stupid. Not a good combo. I wouldn’t like him on an opponents team. I don’t like him on mine. Though I thank him for, well, running folks over. I know I’m hypocritical and cruel about this — he is a human being, and player who helped us win and excited us — but when the play is done… Don’t like him. As for Ahmad B., tough kid, exciting kid, but not our starting back for 2010. At least shouldn’t be. We need a starting back. One we don’t currently have. RB. O-Line. D-Line. DBs. Punter. Wow — Reese has his job cut out from him. More I think about it, we’re beyond tweaking mode. This team has many, many, dangerous holes to fill. Unless we want to be the Chargers of old — pass, pass, pass, score, score, score, lose, lose, lose… I don’t want that. Get to work Reese. Tisch, Mara, show your loyalty to the loyal. Loosen those f’n purse strings, you stadium building, lets rip off the old time faithful, bastards. Loosen ’em!
I'm hiding your razor blades again, Z ...
Not so bleak on some of those four furies.
We will upgrade the coaching in 2010, if nothing more than a new DC.
Some good players will be back from injuries that ended their season or held them back: Alford, Canty, Tuck, Osi, Ross, Jacobs, Bradshaw, Ware, A. Brown ?. K. Phillips ?
Aging: Goff, Sintim & Beatty replace AP, Clark & McKenzie (who might be the only one of the three we keep for depth).
I think we can afford to spend almost all of our draft choices (at least the top 4) on D, and see if we can’t hold opponents to 20 points a bit more often.
I'm not sold at all on Goff and Sintim
they’ve proven very little to me. KP may not ever be the same and Canty well he showed very little when he played so I’m very concerned about the D. RB no big deal if the O-line get’s there act together and and they bring in maybe another young-in they sould be good and it will help the running game, RB’s are a dime a dozen.
It just seems like were built like the run-n-shoot Houston Oilers at this point. 4 deep at the WR posistion and a good QB but terrible on the defensive side of the ball. Maybe becasue as a Giant fan I’m not used to that it disturbs me to suck this way, usually when we suck it’s the O thats a freaking joke. I just hope JR and uppermangemnt use all resources available to fix the D to makethe team more competativ.
Yeah, I'm not sold on any of the above ...
but I think it’s time we found out on some of the young “talent”. I sure hope we get some good performance out of Goff & Sintim, and the injured guys return to form, or it really will be a “rebuilding” year.
they really aren't built like that..
it turned out that way…but I bet no one ever thought they’d look like that this year…
In the 2010 NBA draft the NY Knicks select.....Nate Robinson. 5"9 PG from Pringles' Doghouse U!
Thanks anyway.
I’m one of those nothing on top, all the hair below the nose, kind’ve folks.
I really want to believe it's all just bad luck
But is this a prelude to things to come? Having a stable of injury prone players? I would like to think we wouldn’t have to rely on our third, fourth or even a PS back too much. It’s probably factual that these mounting injuries will rob these guys of some of their skills and we’re left with just a shell.
I actually had a brainstorm pertaining to the draft. Assuming Spiller would be gone, and i think Toby Gerhart rates out to the second round, perhaps adding him? But prior to that, trading down in the first and perhaps picking up a third? We could address the other areas of concern like DT, LB, DB or OL with our first and two, third rounders. Four players in the top 100 that would could be instant contributors one way or another. This goes without saying what we may address in FA, which would impact the draft. This would help in other areas and we wouldn’t be so needy in the draft!
You've got it right. FB.
Sure, there’s a concern, but there’re greater ones.
I'm worried
BJ is on the decline . .. . Bradshaw is a quality back but is a bit injury prone . . . I like Ware but TC does’nt and that’s all that matters. . .Brown, I’m not counting on him. Gatrell I’m interested to see how he does and compets next year in camp. BUT this is how I felt going into 07 after Tiki retired and we just had Jacobs, Ward, Droughns, and a 7th round pick named Bradshaw so who the hell knows. It seems like you can get a good year or two out of a back so unless some stud like Spiller falls to the Giants they should address D or O-line before RB.
Jacobs
I agree Jacobs is done. Giants definitely need a gamebreaker at that position. It will interesting to see what Danny Ware or Gartrell can do.
Bradshaw is the man.
Ever since that Buffalo game (the year you won the SB) I have had nothing but respect for him. I truly hope he makes a full recovery for next year!
"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007
..And the funny / odd thing is it sounds like he plans on playing tommorrow..
And yes George I remember you hoping they would IR him early on..We can only hope he hasn’t reached a point where he flames out on us. He’s been running on a 50 yard X 100 Yard nail-bed..Imagine what he’ll do when he can feel soft turf under his hooves. The Eagles gave “Vicks Vaporize Dogs” an award for “Courage”..I hope the Giants do something for a kid with real courage.
I'd love to see some of the young guys play tommorrow..
But I don’t want to sit back and watch a tryout..I want our guys to leave a message on the field for the rest of the league to read : “We’ll be back”…Beat the tar out of a team who made it to the Tourney..that’s what I want to see..Then I can start working on my “Honey-Do” list that Ed keeps reminding our spouses about all year!..
..and I can't delete any comments out here..
So Ed commented he is painting a bedroom and cleaning out his garage..My wife is going to see that!!..Woe is me!!
Contract Year?
Isn’t this guy in a contract year?
Proof that if the NFL ever goes toa guaranteed contract system like Baseball or Basketball our sport will lose some of it’s luster with guys toughing it out.
Not sure what the Giants do here. Do they try to bring back a guy that who gets hurt consistently and will be on the mend until July next year?
Overall, I think you fix the line and then you can run almost any RB in that system. I think what we have is fine for now and we need to make sure we’re bringing in new talent to make those holes that weren’t so big this year.
that's precisely the type of attitude
that leads to serious, degenerative physical issues.
guys “tough it out” because they’re afraid they’ll lose their job, and by doing so put themselves at risk for very serious injuries and it brings down the level of play of the team as a whole.
i’d rather a guy sit out if he feels he can’t play rather than tough it out and watch him laid out on the field and leaving on a stretcher.
Contract Year
Yeah I hear you but I’m tired of watching guys have their ‘best’ years in contract renewal years.
I think football should take some approach in the middle – oh wait – they do. They guarantee a partial amount of the contract.
beat Minnesota
The Giants will be much improved next year. Except for Carolina they beat the. teams that they had to beat. They beat a good Cowboy team twice and hopefully they can beat the Vikes. This team is not thst far off.
AB
has played admirably in the midst of potential disarray and disaster. I’m not as high on BJ this go-round, however.
We need to find someone, somewhere for next season, and I don’t care if he comes through draft, trade, or luck. Just get him here and get the pads on.
We didn't even have a chance for the "perfect season", but we did have the perfect ending.
Jahvid Best or CJ Spiller
Either one could be our version of Felix Jones – an explosive RB who can really help our return game.
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