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Speed_Kills
I remember that game in the GTF and the Rams were really struggling ... especially Goff and the few times early that McVay actually ran him he was stuffed

I remember him pull at his knee... shaking his leg... he had never done any of that previously. I said real time Gurley is hurt... he finished that game off with 120 yards when the Rams finally just turned the game over to him.

Gurley had no chance the following week in that cold against the Bears and then again the following week against the Eagles a game he left at one point because he was in so much pain.

all of this is on game pass... go watch if you have it

There was no injury report listing a specific injury. When he was shut down they reported pain and swelling. At the time Gurley himself said the same thing happened to him in game 1. Pain and swelling can be the result of an arthritic knee acting up, either through over-use or a hit of some kind that aggravates it, or both.

So if you add it all up the "injury" hypothesis doesn't hold up. It doesn't and can't explain all of the following taken together. Namely (1) he had the same thing in week 1. It happened again in December (pain and swelling). (2) he was not the same back after December (lost some explosion and downfied burst and the stats back that). (3) They tried to limit his carries which is something that you do with a back with an arthritic knee--load management, keep the wear and tear down.

What does explain all that is an underlying arthritic condition which can flare up either through overuse or being hit a certain way.

And of course as I keep saying, whenever any Rams official was directly asked if he had an arthritic knee, they never just directly said "no." When it's easy to say "no" if that's the actual case.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/11/2020 11:40AM by zn.