Deshaun Watson Faces Career Threat with Second Achilles Tear

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00:00It's like I almost fell over when I saw that Deshaun Watson retore his Achilles.

00:09Now, I have actually never seen that before.

00:12I've never seen like a guy tears his Achilles.

00:16And in the midst of the rehab, like, you know, he's literally what?

00:20Two, three months out of tearing his Achilles and it's torn again.

00:26How many times have you seen this as a surgeon?

00:28You've obviously seen it before.

00:30I don't remember ever seeing a guy tear it like whoever it was,

00:34Kobe, whoever that tore it.

00:35And then it retore and he had to start over.

00:37That sounds to me like he's finished.

00:41Well, you know, I have seen it tear again, of course, not of my patients.

00:46Right now, but actually not your patients.

00:49Your patients are all perfect.

00:52But part of that is this is why I want my patients to wear a boot

00:56for at least the first three months.

00:59And apparently, yeah, he's about two and a half months.

01:01I guess he was in Miami.

01:02He turned his ankle and they discovered it on exit physicals.

01:06I always say the busiest day of the year for a team doctor

01:09is the day after the season is over.

01:12And so he flew in for an exit physical.

01:14And we talked about it on our podcast.

01:17That's probably how they discovered it.

01:19He probably was out of his boot.

01:20I'm not saying he did anything wrong.

01:21I'm just saying, you know, it is also a hazard of pushing

01:25through rehab hard and early.

01:28Aaron Rodgers last year did it, did not have a retear

01:31and came close to returning to play.

01:33But, you know, I always say NFL sports medicine is driving an Indy car.

01:38Everyone can go fast on the straightaway.

01:40Everyone can slow down to get through the turn.

01:43It's when you know that the turn is coming to slow down

01:46or when the turn is ending to speed up.

01:49That's the trick of it all.

01:50And there's only one piece of good news on.

01:53First of all, I don't think from a physical standpoint,

01:57Deshaun Watson's career is over from a practical standpoint.

02:02And indeed, maybe if you add up all of this time in Houston

02:05really hasn't finished the season in Cleveland and now a second Achilles,

02:10now essentially going to miss all next year from a practical standpoint.

02:15He probably is, because who's really going to give him a starting job

02:18anymore going forward?

02:20And will he be a backup?

02:21I mean, and make backup money.

02:23He's had made a lot of money.

02:25The only silver lining for the Browns here is they're likely able to cash in now

02:31on their 40 plus million dollar insurance policy.

02:35If he doesn't play a snap next season, doesn't help their salary cap,

02:40but it helps the pocketbook of Jimmy Haslam.

02:43Real quick on this, just just if you will on the

02:48the answer.

02:49So the guy retears it.

02:51Now, what do they do?

02:52They they is it the original fix?

02:55And he's back to ground zero day one and he needs 12 months.

02:59How does it work when there's a retear?

03:03Well, hopefully it's just the original fix.

03:06Hopefully they don't need additional grafting, but there's no doubt

03:09they're going to go slower on rehab.

03:12And as it is an Achilles primary tear now, this late in the season

03:17is a tough return for next season.

03:20They're going to slow that process down.

03:22And apparently it's going to be done by the same surgeon that did the first one.

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