FBT, I'm glad you led with your opening line, because that is a large part of basis for having apprehension about the severity of the injury despite the initial optimism.  Keep in mind, part of the optimism surrounding the quick turnaround for the injury was from Lags and Boselli, who, through their own experiences playing in the league, have known players to not miss any time at all with some meniscus tears.  (I seem to recall Marques Colston as being a name mentioned in connection with the no time missed possibility).  Certainly, you concede the injury surpassed those best case scenarios...right?  Why "grind gears over this?"  I object to the characterization of those of us fearful of a more long term recovery as "irrational," when every doctor who commented on this did not definitively rule out the possibility of a longer term recovery, when our own second round draft pick lost three months over a meniscus injury, when the team has a recent and longer term history of underestimating recovery times (Julius Thomas' hand, Fred Taylor's groin tear), when Ramsey himself sought a second opinion, when we are just over a year removed from our first round pick missing an entire season with a knee injury suffered at a similar stage in camp, and Bradley expressed relief over the post surgery prognosis, acknowledging different possible "scenarios."

 

Looking back, I suspect the rush to classify those worried as irrational stems as much from the individuals involved in expressing the worry than it did the actual expression of concern.

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