Its hard to believe but I'm pleased with TKO play

[Pyrite Gal]

A little relieved or hopeful is probably a better way to describe my sense of his play than hopeful actually (its hard to describe anything good about the LB play yesterday on a day when the LT led running game simply shredded the Bills in the first half to take a big lead and when necessary at the end of the game when their goal was to burn clock and get out of Dodge).

 

However, TKO's production was so hirrid last week when he put up but one solo tackle, that even the usual hyperventilating of some TSW whiners that it was time to cut him while generally ignorable because it was an over-reaction did raise some fears his injury last year might signal the end of his life as the footbsll demon most of us have grown to respect.

 

TKO is still a long way from back to his Pro Bowl status he had formally. In fact, as he is just hitting the corner in terms of age, he may well never be the feared player he once was for us.

 

The good news yesterday amidst another dismal loss was that TKO certainly showed signs that:

 

1. The football rational judgment is to realize that his injury last year was so severed that while it was an unreasonable dream to think he would recover to his feared status this year, it is possible that he may recover well enough to be a solid (though almost certainly not feared Pro Bowl level) LB again next year.

 

2. One wonders to what extent that the TKO production so far was lowered not only by him recocvering from injury but also having to play a new position as he switched LB sides seemingly to take it a little easier on his recovering body. To some extent he may have produced a little better yesterday as the injury to Crowell simply forced the scheme to adapt to whatever he brought to the table whether forcing him to adapt to the scheme.

 

3. One also wonders to what extent this season really is seing him recover from two injuries, not merely the tear last year, but the first game hammy injury which not only slowed him in play, but slowed him in ongoing recovery work which saw him produce a great sack on the first play this season.

 

While he and the rest of the depleted LB corps struggled big time against the best rusher in the league (surprise as who has not stuggled against LT) yesterday's performance does provide some hope that TKO is not done by a longshot yet.

[tennesseeboy]

I think tko is recovering nicely. Let's see what he still has in the tank. When he is healthy he is a force to be reckoned with. I wonder how much he will be able to recover and if he going to continue to be injury prone.