Arians: Ryan Williams not likely to play against Chargers

[GuernseyCard]

It would be the "major injury." Williams has been cleared to practice by team doctors. The NFL frowns on "stashing" players with non-season-ending injuries on IR instead of letting them hit the waiver wire.

Get your point. But if Doctors certify that do to complications stemming from the original injury he will require extended rehab, I'd venture they'd get him on the list. We'll see.

 

[Buckybird]

I hated this pick then and sadly I was right.

Yep, I screamed Brooks Reid over that turd all day

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[LoyaltyisaCurse]

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[Buckybird]

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Hey it's Matt Leinart making a guest appearance on ASFN today.

 

[oaken1]

New thread title: Ryan Williams to not be on team roster come Monday

 

[kerouac9]

Get your point. But if Doctors certify that do to complications stemming from the original injury he will require extended rehab, I'd venture they'd get him on the list. We'll see.

He was cleared to play from the original injury a year ago. This injury has nothing to do with his 2012 trip to IR.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

will they have to reach an injury sttlement to cut him?

 

[MadCardDisease]

Ryan Williams still listed as the #2 back on the depth chart. For now.

 

[TJ]

Ryan Williams still listed as the #2 back on the depth chart. For now.

Oy vey....should knock him down to #5 behind everyone else until he schleps his deteriorating body onto the field. Then again, it shouldn't take subliminal threats or innuendo to motivate the guy to play.

 

[MadCardDisease]

http://blog.azcardinals.com/2013/08/19/ryan-williams-remains-out-and-other-updates/

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UPDATE: Williams said it’s still the irritation under the “fatty pad” in his knee causing him sharp pain. He said he doesn’t even call it an injury. He also wasn’t willing to say he was nervous about his spot on the roster, mostly because he figures worrying about it wouldn’t help.

“I wouldn’t say nervous about my spot, I just don’t like taking time off,” Williams said. “But things like this happen. There was nothing more I could have done to prevent this from happening. I really not nervous, because I feel when I go out there, I’ll be able to erase the time that I’ve missed.”

Would there be enough time to convince the organization to keep him if he didn’t return until next week? “I don’t know,” Williams said. “We’ll have to see. I’d have to make a lot of big plays to erase the time that I’ve missed. I really don’t worry about things like that, because whatever is going to happen is going to happen.”

Williams added he was “pretty sure” the coaches are frustrated because he is too.
“I wouldn’t doubt that they were,” Williams said. “Can I sense it? No. If they are they are doing a good (job) of hiding it. I’m pretty sure they are, but it’s not to the point where they are mad at me. They are more mad at the situation like I am.”
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[CardsFan88]

Wow, I don't know why he should feel so secure. Even if the coaches are mad at the situation, his situation is not above that of the teams situation. He might find out soon that coach isn't mad at him, but the situation is he's no longer his coach because he's cut.

I guess it's possible he can miss the chargers game and play in the finale and make the team, the problem is there is a big cutdown between now and then.

edit: I see now with the more indepth Q&A above.

 

[JeffGollin]

There seems to be a difference between Williams and the Cardinal docs?

In the end, it is Ryan's knee and he has to do what he feels is best right now and over the long haul. It sounds like he trusts his own body over that of the AZ medics. Could he be correct? Is he receiving other outside medical advice? Is his agent feeding him a line of bull?

It may very well turn out that BA decides it's time to leave the station. But the decision may have little to do with the real or imagined condition of Ryan's knee and all comes down to (a) we need him now, (b) he can't play and (c) it's time to move on.

But that doesn't mean we fans need to throw Ryan under the proverbial bus - it would just be a sad, hard football decision that the FO had to come to grips with

 

[Matt L]

Him in the 2nd round and Housler in the 3rd is a pretty bad 2nd and 3rd round

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Yep, I screamed Brooks Reid over that turd all day

We're NFL GMs

I wanted Justin Houston. We passed on him twice. He is a pro bowler now.

 

[Mainstreet]

Did anyone hear about the reason Powell did not pass a physical after being released by the Cardinals? If he were anywhere near healthy, I'd rather have him back to replace Williams or Smith.

 

[Jay Cardinal]

I wanted Justin Houston. We passed on him twice. He is a pro bowler now.

Took the words out of my mouth. I would have been happy with either, but passing on Houston twice (picked Housler in the third) was just plain poor evaluation by the front office. I wonder what Keim's views were on the issue in Graves' war room.

 

[Buckybird]

I wanted Justin Houston. We passed on him twice. He is a pro bowler now.

Took the words out of my mouth. I would have been happy with either, but passing on Houston twice (picked Housler in the third) was just plain poor evaluation by the front office. I wonder what Keim's views were on the issue in Graves' war room.

I had forgotten about passing Justin twice.

Someday this team is going to quit ignoring all these quality edge rushers in the early rounds lately by trying to draft them late...or not.

Geez, it really is sickening

 

[Duckjake]

I had forgotten about passing Justin twice.

Someday this team is going to quit ignoring all these quality edge rushers in the early rounds lately by trying to draft them late...or not.

Geez, it really is sickening

Sure, but then we wouldn't have Sam Acho and Alex Okafor! Hook 'em!!!

 

[Buckybird]

Sure, but then we wouldn't have Sam Acho and Alex Okafor! Hook 'em!!!

They will be riding the pine after we draft Jackson Jeffcoat next year

 

[mwanamatapa]

will they have to reach an injury sttlement to cut him?

Yes, think they have to waive him and if he is not claimed, either put him on IR or reach a settlement with him. If they don't he will raise a grievance via the NFLPA.

 

[kerouac9]

Yes, think they have to waive him and if he is not claimed, either put him on IR or reach a settlement with him. If they don't he will raise a grievance via the NFLPA.

He's not injured. The MRI is clean. He's holding himself out of practices.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Took the words out of my mouth. I would have been happy with either, but passing on Houston twice (picked Housler in the third) was just plain poor evaluation by the front office. I wonder what Keim's views were on the issue in Graves' war room.

I had forgotten about passing Justin twice.

Someday this team is going to quit ignoring all these quality edge rushers in the early rounds lately by trying to draft them late...or not.

Geez, it really is sickening

I wanted Justin Houston. We passed on him twice. He is a pro bowler now.

Every other team passed on Houston twice as well. He dropped because he tested positive for marijuana at the combine. I'd be willing to bet he wasn't even on the Cards board after that.

 

[GuernseyCard]

He's not injured. The MRI is clean. He's holding himself out of practices.

An MRI doesn't show, I think, diagnosed inflammation or irritation, which has been the stated reason for being unavailable.

 

[Mulli]

An MRI doesn't show, I think, diagnosed inflammation or irritation, which has been the stated reason for being unavailable.

Very convenient. Soon he will have a note from a chiropractor or something.

 

[GuernseyCard]

He was cleared to play from the original injury a year ago. This injury has nothing to do with his 2012 trip to IR.

???

So his inflammed patella in the same leg has nothing to do with his original injury and reconstruction. OK... fine.

Anyway, one way or another it's settled within a few weeks.