Marquise Blair

[32utahutes]

What was Marquise Blair’s injury? I never saw the details.

[Utah]

I think he blew his knee out but Utah just released a “welcome back” video of him. So he’s ready to go. 

Also, Whitt said this last week that he was 100%. 

[Utah]

Offenses beware.

Marquise Blair is BACK. @Legit_King1 pic.twitter.com/6zVDvt5gjg

— Utah Football (@Utah_Football) June 23, 2018

[32utahutes]

If he tore his ACL he wouldn’t be 100%. He’s 8 months removed. Possible MCL? Or Meniscus?

[Utah]

All Utah has said is lower leg injury. 

[Onlyu]

It was an ACL…they have these things so dialed in that full activity in as soon as 6 months is  ore and more common especially with an athlete that essentially has round the clock rehab and who was in great shape to begin with.  He’s been participating in conditioning so is already running on it at a normal clip.  Slowly working into the cutting and start/stop drills.  

From here it’s honestly just pain, swelling and overuse and then how quickly he trusts it will hold up to what he is used to doing – usually takes a couple more months.  He’ll deal with the usual soreness from pushing it but as long as there are no set backs this summer he’ll be ready for camp.

[KiYi-Ute]

I love the enforcer mentality that Blair has. But am I the only one who’s a little bit worried about his form on tackles? He often tries to blow people up instead of wrapping up. I think it’s prone to getting penalties and injuries. 

Maybe I’m overthinking it. I am stoked that he’s back and healthy. 

[Utah]

Ha ha. Yeah, it’s something he has to fix. I do believe he was kicked out of two games for targeting last year. 

[chinngiskhaan]

yeah, you are definitely not the only one. I personally hate hate hate the way he tackles. I think it’s against the rules for a reason. As much as I hate to see him lower his head/shoulder to hit someone, I hated watching him attempt to use his arms and hands to do useful things even more. Watching him attempt to wrap guys up was sad, you could actually see him thinking to himself, “crap… I forgot to use my arms again” (as he is lowering his head) “I better stick my arms out to make it look like I’m not breaking the rules.”

Then there is the whole, he could literally ruin someone’s life tackling that way thing. That is the worst part of it IMO. Football is almost unwatchable sometimes with the amount of injuries that happen in games. I still vividly remember that Pharaoh guy getting his leg broken in half against us… and the safety from BYU a few years back whos leg snapped for no apparent reason when he was reacting to a Ute offensive player… and those injuries weren’t really even the result of big hits, nobody even touched the BYU guy. Watching dudes get knocked unconscious from head to head blows makes me sick to my stomach. Hitting like that is inexcusable in my opinion. Being the big tough guy, or watching that guy do stuff, just isn’t appealing to me, not even a little bit.

He has a TON of potential at safety, but he isn’t very good at it right now. He doesn’t know how to be a safety yet, not to his full potential anyways. He sucked in coverage, and he never learned how to tackle as a linebacker because it was just his job to knock the crap out of the QB when he wasn’t looking prior to coming to Utah.

[UtMtBiker]

Doesn’t sound like football is for you and thats okay.  For me, watching football without the physical aspects is boring.  

[Duhwayne]

He’ll start wrapping.

He put his weight down on the RES turf and the knee gave. Maybe like Pharoah Brown. Sometimes I wonder about the turf in our stadium. Do the cleats catch un situations when grass would give? Has that ever been seriously discussed?

[Utah]

I think I read somewhere that the new turf is a lot safer but I don’t have any sources on that.

[GameForAnyFuss]

Turf is getting safer but it still has a long ways to go before it’s as safe as grass. It just doesn’t release your feet in those twisting movements. Sports that you’re starting to see a lot of on turf (football, soccer, lacrosse mostly) have had a startling increase in the number of ACLs since modern turf came about.

I’m involved in soccer locally. The indoor fields they put in at the RSL high school have the “best” turf available (the only kind approved for FIFA international play). I’ve played on it a bunch, and it’s sweet. But still too grippy. Saw a kid do both ACLs two weeks ago – not pretty.

Turf has a lot of advantages over grass, like maintenance, wear, and drainage. But they’re going to have to figure out a way to get it to give way like grass does. But the fact that it doesn’t give way is why it’s so durable, so I don’t expect that problem to be solved anytime soon.

[Utah]

I tried looking around…and it turns out we know nothing about it. Some articles/research says turf is better…some say grass is better…

So, who the heck knows. The take home message I took from all my reading is that make sure you wear the right shoes. Grass or turf, too much friction drastically increases risk of injury. 

[jamarcus24]

In my unprofessional opinion I think a lot of the non-contact knee injuries we’re seeing a lot of have more to do with the athletes getting bigger, faster, and stronger and not as much to do with playing surface.  Athletes are cutting and stopping on dimes, completely shifting and transferring all their body weight from the ground up their legs and through their bodies.  Think about Armand Shyne’s ligament tear a few years back.  That’s 220 lbs. stopping and going in tenths of a second. I just don’t think the human body was meant to absorb all the shock modern sports demand now.

[Utah]

Great point. See Jamal Anderson.

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