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L. Woodley out for the season

it's also suggesting it's possible that hamstring injuries can be from overuse.
i wont post a link since it makes you soil yourself.

Exactly. Hence my use of the term "suggest" rather than "indicate" - different causes

But I think you're right.. overuse must've been what gave Woodley that massive gut and made him noticeably slower at age 26.
 
Guess Coach Tomlin and the FO made a good decision dumping him. No???

Riiiiigggghhht. We are on the books 5 million this year and 8 million next year for the guy, Tomlin and the FO **** the bed on this signing.
 
Exactly. Hence my use of the term "suggest" rather than "indicate" - different causes

But I think you're right.. overuse must've been what gave Woodley that massive gut and made him noticeably slower at age 26.
Arians Foster has a gut? you know, that was who I was referring to.
of course you know that.
 
I thought we should of restructured his deal hot him this year to play for vet min after giving his bonus tossed him away.
 
Arians Foster has a gut? you know, that was who I was referring to.
of course you know that.

I was referring to Woodley. You know, the only player I've discussed in this thread that has has "L. Woodley" in the title.

Goddamn you're bad at this.
 
Mike Sam would be better than any pass rusher on our team right now. KId might be slow and undersized (JJ anyone) but his motor never stops.
 
I was referring to Woodley. You know, the only player I've discussed in this thread that has has "L. Woodley" in the title.

Goddamn you're bad at this.
post 16, I brought up Foster, considering his hamstring problems.
you played along. until it didnt fit your half-assed opinion.
 
should of restructured him and had him playing at vet min, and then based on Worlids play let the fo determine if worlids is worth keeping we could of had then Woodley asa stop gap drafted a future lolb and trade/ let worlids go in the winter.
 
post 16, I brought up Foster, considering his hamstring problems.
you played along. until it didnt fit your half-assed opinion.

No, you keep trying to go to Foster, as if that example somehow proves him wrong about Woodley.
 
Worilds is getting paid 10 million to do squat. I would rather have Woodley as a rotational guy for 1 million.

We are paying Woodley, or I should say have paid Woodley 13 million to do squat for another team both are bad choices. At this point I think he is just trying to stay healthy enough to get paid and that is all. He does not seem to have the desire to play at a high level anymore. That is very hard on your body and he might not be pushing it as hard as he could if the desire is there. He is treating it like a business, he got his now all he wants to do is coast to retirement if he can, can't fault him for that.
 
We won a Super Bowl with him, then he got big headed and fat and paid. Glad we cut him but sucks we are still paying his cap hit.
 
" L. Woodley out for the season."

/s 2011
and 2012
and 2013
and 2014
 
I love the "he got paid and got fat" argument with Woodley. Does anyone remember why he even slipped to the second round to begin with? He had hamstring issues in college...interesting, since he wasn't getting paid at all then. Woodley never got "fat". I showed pics a few years ago from his rookie year to the current year at the time that showed Woodley was the same size. But as soon as someone starts to slip at all, in come the conditioning experts.

AT THE TIME, the extension was the right move, and was widely accepted as such on this board and around the league. He had stayed healthy, had produced, and had the look of the next great Steelers LBer. Revisionist history is fun, because now everyone says they hated the deal, it was a dumb move by Colbert and Tomlin. Hell Woodley was ripping it up the first year he got injured and missed significant time. He was bearing down on Brady for about the tenth time when his hamstring gave out against the Patriots that year.

Moving on from him was the right move, signing him to his big deal was the right move. The only wrong move they've made regarding the LOLB position, was giving Worilds 10 million.
 
I love the "he got paid and got fat" argument with Woodley. Does anyone remember why he even slipped to the second round to begin with? He had hamstring issues in college...interesting, since he wasn't getting paid at all then. Woodley never got "fat". I showed pics a few years ago from his rookie year to the current year at the time that showed Woodley was the same size. But as soon as someone starts to slip at all, in come the conditioning experts.

He pulled his hammy during Senior Bowl practice in 2007. That's it. I can't find anything on hamstring issues in college beyond that.

All I'm saying is that it may not be a coincidence that he developed chronic hamstring woes at the same time he got extremely fat, four years later. Even a teammate - who works out with him and practices and plays alongside him - called him out for a lack of conditioning.

“He was awful,” one teammate said of Woodley’s performance last season.

“He tells us he works out, but we didn’t see it. He wasn’t in shape. That has to be a reason why he was always hurt.”
 
Foster is a vegan. That's great for being a model but not as well suited for heavy labor.
 
keep up, tape. we're only talking about Woodley in this thread. this is a WOODLEY ZONE
 
Good riddance. Too bad about the cap hit though.
Hindsight is 20/20 but I've said before that resigning him to the big contract seemed like a good idea at the time. Had no idea he'd turn into Albert Haynesworth.
 
Unless we bring up a random other player in this WOODLEY thread.
the ONLY reason I brought up a "random player" is because he's been plagued by hamstring issues for at least the past season and a half. But, I wouldn't expect a 3-foot tall eunuch troll to understand the correlation since you'd have to actually pay attention to more than Tomlin bashing threads, or watch games. So there IS a correlation there. Should I ask Coolie to install the Crayola font for you?
 
True, but his recurring hamstring problems with us at least suggest a lack of conditioning

Exactly, while in PT a couple of years ago the therapist said those type of injuries were due to lack of training and training the wrong way.
 
So Supe it sounds like you have something against 3-foot tall eunuch trolls, I did not realize that.

As I recall there were comments made about his lack of conditioning based on some videos of him in which he did look fat. It seemed that sometime around the time period in which he got married a lot of the fat talk started showing up and he looked fat during that time period to me. As I recall one of the injuries was to an ankle that did not seem to get better for a long time period and one could understand gaining wait when forced into lots of inactivity.
 
He pulled his hammy during Senior Bowl practice in 2007. That's it. I can't find anything on hamstring issues in college beyond that.

All I'm saying is that it may not be a coincidence that he developed chronic hamstring woes at the same time he got extremely fat, four years later. Even a teammate - who works out with him and practices and plays alongside him - called him out for a lack of conditioning.

“He was awful,” one teammate said of Woodley’s performance last season.

“He tells us he works out, but we didn’t see it. He wasn’t in shape. That has to be a reason why he was always hurt.”

If TMC was still here, he would be able to point you in the direction of Woodley's college hamstring issues (I don't have the links anymore, but it was discussed the last time we addressed the Woodley hamstring issue two years ago). Also, I remember the "unnamed teammate", and Woodley himself addressed that issue. People were ASSUMING he sat out those 6 games because of his hamstrings, but it was his ankle. He had a high ankle sprain when he tried to come back from the hamstring injury and that's what kept him out the rest of the time.

None of that really changes the fact that it was the right call to sign him to that extension because of what he had done on the field up to that point. But because he started to get hurt after the fact, people come on here acting as if they knew all along that it would happen, and that it was the worst decision they could have made, and blah blah blah...
 
If TMC was still here, he would be able to point you in the direction of Woodley's college hamstring issues (I don't have the links anymore, but it was discussed the last time we addressed the Woodley hamstring issue two years ago). Also, I remember the "unnamed teammate", and Woodley himself addressed that issue. People were ASSUMING he sat out those 6 games because of his hamstrings, but it was his ankle. He had a high ankle sprain when he tried to come back from the hamstring injury and that's what kept him out the rest of the time.

None of that really changes the fact that it was the right call to sign him to that extension because of what he had done on the field up to that point. But because he started to get hurt after the fact, people come on here acting as if they knew all along that it would happen, and that it was the worst decision they could have made, and blah blah blah...

I thought the contract was excessive at the time, not because I knew he would get hurt but because I did not think he would be able to continue that type of production with out the other guys we had on the team that were getting older and retiring soon. I felt a lot of his production was due to scheme and the fact that Aaron Smith, Hampton, DaBeard,and Harrison were very good as well and caused Woodley to have chances that he would not when they got replaced. I did not think he was not worth keeping just not at that price.
 
I liked the contract at the time. Most around here did. Many thought it was wiser money than what we spent on Timmons (pass rusher vs. ILB value).

I thought Woodley would be a lifer. I thought he had all the makings of a great Steeler, both on and off the field. He was a bit more old-school (Cowher type) than new-school (Tomlin type), but that doesn't excuse his weight gain and overall fitness level declining so much after being paid.

He hasn't put the work in to take care of his body. He should have been getting lighter thoughout his 20's rather than getting bigger to save and lengthen his career. He did the opposite and now his career looks to be on it's last legs at age 30.

Too bad. I loved the guy coming out of college and one of my favorite draft picks of the Tomlin era.
 
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