It always seems like the Packers mis-diagnose injuries. What seems to be a simple injury turns into season injury. Ty last year, Abby this year,Lacy this year. Heck, even Shields. All those were week to week at first. Then out of nowhere, season ending
But they're all separate and with different conditions around each situation and decision.
Concussions are funny, especially when it's not your first. Shields is a premier player, he's not easily replaced and at that point in the season the likelihood a team is going g to use that roster spot with a remotely comparable player is very small. Now I don't think he's coming back, but I can see why they left it open. Fast foreword a couple weeks and he's not where he could have been in the protocol and injuries all over the team have now necessitated they needed to fill his roster spot.
Abby? I didn't even know he got hurt. I saw him take a hit, but that hurt him? Again?
I think Ty was a case of reinjuring and there wasn't time to bring him back anymore that season. In a season we needed every WR we could get and with the IR rules like they were, I have no problem with how they handled it.
I think Lacy found the IR himself. He runs hard, can't deny it. He also looks like he gained 30 lbs already this season. I think his injury is directly related to his inability to take better care of himself. I think increasing the severity of his injury was also directly related to his weight. You can't go airborne and bring 270lbs on a bum ankle and have good things happen. I don't they could have sat him for a few weeks and been better off for it. Eddie wasn't going to be in better shape or less likely to be injured going forward. I wouldn't have given him time off either.
So I think each situation is unique. I don't think they misdiagnose as much as it was a unique player with a peculiar injury, a young guy being reinjured because he was pushing to get back on the field, and a guy that can't dedicate himself to his job or take care of his body.
