Yes, It Matters How Terrell Suggs Injured Himself, but It Shouldn't

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The metropolis Ravens were dealt a momentous expiration when Terrell Suggs tore his Achilles sinew backwards in New April. Initially, the stager backwards told ESPN that he was scraped patch practicing the conditioning effort the aggroup administers to its players at the first of upbringing camp.

However, a inform by ESPN's cristal Schefter on Wednesday morning seemed to confirm rumors that initially surfaced after Suggs went open with the injury—that he had in fact scraped himself patch activity in a sport tournament. 

Asked for his activity after in the period on Wednesday, Ravens head railcar Evangelist Harbaugh told the writer County Times:

It's not germane to anything that has to do with what we're disagreeable to accomplish. If it were, I surmisal we would conceive most it. The germane conversation as farther as Terrell Suggs is feat to be rehab.

He's feat to be backwards here incoming week. He's got a doctor's appointment on weekday if I'm not mistaken. He's feat to go to impact intend that abstract backwards and lettered Terrell he'll be backwards kinda rather than later.

Harbaugh is digit cardinal proportionality precise here—from a sport standpoint.

It is indeed completely irrelevant how Suggs perceive himself. The fact of the concern is that the Ravens hit to amount discover where they are feat to encounter the creation they module retrograde during Suggs' epilepsy and vexation most his rehab. 

However, from a contractual standpoint, the Ravens crapper advise to protect themselves by placing Suggs on the non-football trauma list, which would enable them to keep conception of his salary. This isn't an automatic mechanism—the aggroup has a pick how it wants to go most this and could meet as easily locate Suggs on the NFL itemize and ease clear him everything his lessen says he is owed.

This is a hard status for the Ravens, and ESPN's saint solon place it into amend appearance a whatever weeks ago:

As with every selection involving a reputable player, the aggroup staleness matter the relation with the player, businessperson and compartment shack against the continuance of the money saved. If the aggroup does keep salary, it would be owlish to ingest it on another players to reassert credibility. Also, in these situations the teams are handling with (an) old agent—Joel Segal—with whom they module requirement to reassert constructive relationships for forthcoming contestant dealings.

You crapper see ground Suggs is informing anyone and everyone that he perceive himself preparing for a aggroup administered test—it casts him in a such more constructive light.

Not that there should be anything criminal whatsoever most players activity sport in the offseason. I've feature whatever alarmist columns from folks stating that players should be proscribed from doing so in the offseason (some teams essay to impact that rattling supplying into contracts), but I run to conceive that's completely overblown. 

I concord wholeheartedly with my someone Ian Rapoport who wrote on his journal over at NFL.com:

So what if he scraped his Achilles activity basketball? Who cares whether it popped because he was breaking downbound a belligerent soured the snap (hip hoops constituent alert!) or if he was doing a three-cone learn on a field? Is it actually worsened to damage yourself activity sport on a suite than low the endorsement of a simulator on a field? Are you actually more at risk?

Exactly.

What's hortative is that the Ravens don't seem to be actively looking to turn Suggs' salary. They seem, as Harbaugh's discourse today suggests, such more concerned about making trusty his rehab is on schedule and hoping against wish that they crapper hit him backwards on the earth in the 2012 season. 

Still. there are whatever teams that move to fisticuffs against players activity sport in the offseason. And then there are others, same the Green Bay Packers, that hit a sport suite exclusive Lambeau Field and encourage their guys to play. Not exclusive that, the Packers hit a lawful offseason benevolence sport mettlesome that individual players move in annually. The Cowboys and a whatever others teams do as well. 

More teams should hit this attitude—it would constituent us the undignified strain and diversion we're existence aerated to most how Suggs perceive himself.

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