Michael Thomas damage creates mysterious questions on analysis
Michael Thomas is probably going carried out for the season, and the Saints’ medical workers appears to be like slightly suspicious within the course of.
On Thursday, New Orleans Saints followers received the information they may really feel coming, however nonetheless didn’t wish to hear. Michael Thomas is out at some point of yet one more season attributable to damage.
As if that information wasn’t dangerous sufficient, the circumstances across the damage create some questions on how Thomas’s damage got here to be and why it took so lengthy to get up to now.
John Hendrix reported that head coach Dennis Allen mentioned the damage was attributable to, “issues with docs,” which is a really obscure and barely regarding solution to phrase it.
In subsequent Tweets, Hendrix mentioned that MRIs revealed the toe didn’t heal the best way docs have been hoping.
It was broadly speculated (however by no means confirmed) that Thomas suffered from turf toe in Week 3. In actual fact, it was reported that he was more likely to return in Week 6, however Thomas by no means did.
Although the turf toe is solely hypothesis, why was Thomas listed as, “possible,” for Week 6, but out for the season by Week 9? It’s a whole 180 from the place we heard Thomas was at.
Are Saints workforce docs guilty for Michael Thomas damage?
The Saints have had points with their medical workers earlier than. They fired orthopedists after misdiagnoses in 2017. Might an identical state of affairs be in play right here?
We don’t know, and something right here on the damage is pure hypothesis. It’s totally attainable that the damage was appropriately recognized all alongside as a dislocated toe and the workforce merely didn’t see the progress in restoration they thought they’d.
We don’t know, and it’s unlikely we’ll ever get a crystal clear reply. Nevertheless it certain doesn’t monitor with such incomplete perception into what occurred.
For now, it provides to the mystique that’s Michael Thomas, who has been wholesome sufficient to play in simply 10 video games over this season and the previous two.
