(03-17-2019, 07:32 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(03-17-2019, 06:40 AM)hb1148 Wrote: He had all but won the starting job in Miami if I recall correctly before a leg injury put him on IR that year. It sounds like he never completely recovered.  Injuries can't be predicted.

Garrard had known back issues prior to being cut and then had surgery on it after we cut him.  He wouldn’t have played much that year if at all.  Almost as if the Jags front office had an idea that would be the case the way it played out.  

The following year he had a season ending injury on his knee during preseason with the Dolphins.  However, the injury occurred at his home when according to him he turned his body to look at his son running in the back yard.  He said at the time he could’ve been turning to look at anything.  It wasn’t some freak football injury.  That knee was likely just ready to blow.

It gets said occasionally around here that we shouldn’t have cut him when we did.  You can argue the manner in which we cut him wasn’t appropriate or classy, but he was physically done with football at that point and cutting him was absolutely the right football move for this team.  It’s revisionist to say otherwise.

The majority of players that far into their careers have chronic injuries or issues but he was good enough that the Dolphins were going to make him their starter most likely. Freak injuries can happen anywhere (I recall Leftwich's injury being similar in that regard). DG getting cut was reactionary on the part of Del Rio and a move he no doubt ended up regretting as it ultimately led to him getting fired too. The manner of the cut was classless yeah definitely but that's not why it ultimately was a bad decision.

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