According to my readings, Doctson has had other opinions with the same determination....nothing showing but reccurring pain is possible.
"It's definitely a frustrating injury," Doctson said. "I was told when it occurred that it would be a frustrating process and frustrating year. ... We had a few doctors I flew to see, and they said the same thing -- that it's definitely something that will be recurring or could happen throughout the year just through activity.
Whatever that means.
I don't know if Gruden fired the cannon or not but pundits and fans keep asking the questions, he answers.
His problem, as I see, it is not knowing when Doc is available, he wants him out there to develop and probably considers him a talent uptick over the other options but he doesn't want a major setback either.
The 'see how he feels next day' has been the mantra pretty much since the kid has been able to practice. Doc shows great in practice and next day he can be sore or not, if not he goes again, if he is sore, they rest him.
Redskins coach Jay Gruden said Wednesday that Doctson might have to miss a couple of weeks. They don't want to shut him down for a longer period.
"We don't want to shut me down for a year when I could feel good in a week, two weeks," Doctson said.
The simple answer is to just 'shut him down', pretty sure that's what's been going on since May. Might be wrong but I've heard nothing being diagnosed other than 'strained Achilles' ....... Cooley says he's experienced tendonitis (don't recall which part) and says it's frustrating, painful and the ambivalence of what's actually going on creates enough worry about making it worse to create doubt.
Cooley also opines that Doctson might be a 'home body' type that's still adapting to the NFL lifestyle. Shutting him down to IR might further isolate the kid from the rest of the team leading to slower development of confidence needed to produce at a high level.
Not a bad POV in my estimation. Guess we'll just have to see how this stuff plays out.
