Rubes

A new what?

Highly doubtful it's his tibia. Fibulas (not fibias) are broken all the time in football. It's a small bone that is easily broken, especially just above the ankle, and it's often mistaken for an ankle sprain until they do the x-rays. The tibia is the larger bone in the lower leg, and if that breaks, then you have a slightly bigger problem. Break, fracture, no big difference. The type of fracture does matter, though.

Damn, I nearly spit mouthwash all over my monitor!

Uh, excuse me. Stories. Now.

Hmm....now it's showing. Beats the hell out of me.

You see it? I still can't. I've refreshed multiple times and it's still the old one. How odd.

Sorry if I missed a discussion of this earlier... Can't seem to change my avatar. Each time I remove the old one and upload a new one, it just continues to show the old one. Any ideas?

You got it...the leg will generally be healed by 4-6 weeks, but it'll take another couple of weeks for him to be able to run full speed again and, more importantly, to be able to take a hit on it without it buckling. He'll probably be doing light practice with the team in 4-6. But really, it doesn't matter much since we'd better not be needing him at all this season.

Actually, it's probably a good thing it's a broken fibula rather than a high ankle sprain or something like that. Broken bones heal and generally don't present any lingering problems. Sprains, especially bad ones, can sometimes be tough to come back from. Either way, I guess if JP was to see the field this year, we'd have been screwed anyway.

If those are the only 6 things to be upset about, I'm not too worried. In fact, I'll only refer to those as 5 reasons since #4 is too ridiculous to even mention.