Like the NFL draft, which started this weekend, I am now PK-free. In the case of the draft, that means that good teams never select PKs (placekickers) with one of their seven precious choices; such players are largely fungible and the marginal difference between very good and mediocre is pretty small.
For me, it means that I had the last painkiller yesterday morning, four days after the surgery. Since then, I've been going au naturel, and to be honest haven't really noticed much of an uptick in discomfort. I'm concentrating on icing the knee as much as possible, using a combination of a cold-water Cryo-cuff, a conventional ice-gel pack, and frozen peas.
Perhaps my eyes are deceiving me, but it looks like the swelling has started to recede very slightly today. Let's hope it continues....I'm already tired of walking with crutches. I spent most of yesterday using one crutch rather than two, though in the end decided to go back to using two today. Hopefully the physio gives the all clear to begin dialling down the use of the crutches tomorrow, which would be well ahead of schedule (the goal is to ditch them after two weeks.)
The exercises are going pretty well; hopefully tomorrow I can get some electric muscle stimulation for the quad and hammy, as well as a broader set of exercises to do.
In the meantime, I'm plugging along, and hoping that my team selects some offensive line help on day two of the draft this afternoon.
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NFL Draft...and I dont think the EAGLES screwed it up! Bizarro world for sure.
ReplyDeleteDon't know much about Hood for the Steelers. I'm sure he'll be fine.
Hoping the birds go corners and d-ends the rest of the way.
Love the Maclin and McCoy picks...and pretty pleased with the Peters move as well. They're pretty well set now for next year.
BTW - the Raiders crack me up.
Also, I'm sure there is a comment warranted about your "au naturel" post...but frankly I'm a bit to disturbed to delve into it.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, the peas do work well in this type of recovery, particularly with some butter and Tony Cachere's Creole Seasoning.
I've read some suggestion that Maclin is a bit too much like DeSean Jackson, but haven't seen enough (make that anything) to comment. In any event, given the Iggles pre- and post-TO WR troubles, stockpiling quality wideouts can't be a bad thing. And natch, you can't go wrong with a Pitt TB (unless his name is Kevan Barlow.)
ReplyDeleteAs for Hood, he is supposed to be a high-character, motivated guy that will be able to make an impact as a 3-4 end after a year's polishing. I'd have preferred them to take an OL, but the top two centers went off the board before their pick and Unger at 32 may have been a reach. Supposedly they tried to trade up in R2, perhaps to grab Unger, but when that didn't work they flipped the pick (and a 4) for 2 3's. So they've grabbed an OG, a WR, and a CB in R3...all of which address a need, and none of whom I know anything about. At some point, hopefully next year, they will have to bite the bullet and spend a first round choice on a lineman again.
Oh, and the Raiders are the "No Retreat, No Surrender" of franchises; just awful, but compelling entertainment. My favourite thing about the Mitchell pick is that it supposedly crashed all the major sites' draft-tracker software, as he wasn't among the top 400 prospects that they have pre-loaded....
C'mon....Raiders!
ReplyDeleteAlso very pleased with the Macho Harris pick in round 5. For a guy who can't run...he sure runs fast.
As far as Maclin goes, I haven't watched him enough to know...but while he is fast and elusive, he's 6'0" and 200 lbs...so not a smurf like Jackson. I would expect him to be getting reps early and bumping Curtis our by mid year.
Hopefully we get the Turnpike Super Bowl this year.