Brian Quick has come a long way to get back on track

Brian Quick has come a long way to get back on track

By Vincent Bonsignore, Los Angeles Daily News

In a physical sport like football where injuries and pain are an everyday fact of life, there are locker room code phrases to contrast degrees of seriousness.

At the very top of that list sits the “car wreck” distinction. It requires no explanation or clarification, really. But for the particularly curious or naive, let’s just say gruesome pretty much sums it up.

It’s an aspect of football life as real and prevalent as the water coolers that line the back of a sideline. And it hovers as close as the very next play.

For obvious reasons it’s a subject players acknowledge only in hushed tones and knowing glances.

They know the deal. No sense dwelling on it.

For Brian Quick, the very next play occurred in 2014 during the brightest stretch of his young career. Its ramifications would be felt for almost two full years, rendering Quick almost an afterthought among Rams wide receivers and eventually left many to assume he was nothing more than a second-round bust.

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