Agreed, but as a person I have heard some new things about the young man(Cushing), and I will give him credit for being a great guy.

And the injury bug has started before we even got a single snap out of him.

Good news, does not look to need surgery.

Also from the reports it sounds like work out boy did something while lifting.

Not that it couldn't have happened while lifting...but I heard he complained of a sore knee after practice and that they weren't sure when exactly it happened. Was there something else I missed?

The tone of this post is that you are happier about being "proven" right then you are upset the Texans are without a potentially valuable contributor. Is it too much to ask that we see this guy on an NFL field before we make decisions.

Well the down side of internet BB is that tone is not transferred to the reader.

I want this team to be the best team we have fielded, and having Cushing be one of the LBs is the only way that can happen right now.

As for being proven wrong or right, I am proven wrong everyday on this board, nothing new about that.

The earlier report on the official site has been rewritten and the inference I was able to make earlier has been lost in update hell.

The jist of the line was Cushing practiced yesterday with no issues, even came in an did his workout. Then he went to trainer and relayed the knee is sore. The trainers took him straight to a MRI at the mere mention my knee is sore.

I had found it funny he did not mention the knee issue until after he worked out. Again it was my inference and it was based on reading between lines, thus it has no validity.

Jest, as in making a joke? Or Jist which is the kernel of something said? I'm just asking, not taking umbrage with your statement PK.

Point out the aggie not knowing how to use a word :D. Jist.

The other downside to message boards is that sometimes people make assumptions and read things into a post that were not there. That would be me in this case. Sorry for the assumption.

oh you read the fact I am not a Cushing fan correct, I am waiting for him to show me something. His college tape didn't. Only game action against another team will allow him to change my mind.

But I also know since we spent a 1st round pick on him, and did not draft another LB, and our SAM was an issue, he has to be what Kubiak/Smith say for us to succeed.

Now I have wondered to myself what Barwin could do as a SAM/3rd down DE?

Since his lengthy history of injuries at USC is so well documented and out there for the whole world to see, I assumed the Texans had done their "due diligence" and totally discounted the risk as insignificant ? But having this kind of injury so early in the season (even before the first preseason game) with no apparent singular even that caused it is troubling and makes one wonder if the Texans didn't have a serious case of "tunnel vision" about Cushing ?
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"I guess the bright side is that it wasn't an ACL or won't require surgery (based on early reports). But it is the same knee that he's had arthroscopic surgery on in the past." http://www.examiner.com/x-778-Housto...still-an-issue
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That from AJs column in the Houston Examiner. Dang that sucks ! Who knew about that ?

His injury history was one of the reason I had written him off my list, that and uninspired play in the games I watched.

Well, I think lots of guys get nicked up and injured in footbaall don't they? Planty of examples on the Texans. Cushing started all 13 games his Sophomore and Senior Year. His injury was when he was a freshmen, so sounds like recovery went pretty well.

Most people seem to think Cushing is an intense player, including reports from Texans practice, so looks like uninspired may have had to do with score or where plays were being run and his assigments.

But we will see when he does finally get on the field and gets some games we can all see first hand. I'm expecting good things.

I expect he will have moderately frequent injury issues somewhat similar to this. Missing a couple of weeks every season. I think he has stressed/over developed his body to the point where it tends to break down.

Is that your medical opinion?

Yes. I had a really nice room at the Holiday Inn last night.

bravo

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