Great, just great. Hopefully, the guilty party is the team doctor, not Douglas. Douglas was probably acting solely on what the team doctor told him. If the Jets are indeed guilty in this, let the team doctor get fired, fined, whatever, but the Jets shouldn't lose any draft picks or cap space.
Couldn't be more disappointed and embarrassed with the Jets with the way they handled this. Looked like total clowns, morons. The guy has a severe shoulder injury what the hell is their problem? He needs the surgery and good for him that he got it going forward this will hurt us with free agents unless we don't act to fix things asap. Hoping this is not on Joe Douglas. He should be smarter than this
It's per his agent which means nothing. The problem is his surgeon is going to the most credible witness in any arbitration hearing. Trading for a player should come with a lemon law return policy like buying a car.
Of course the agents are going to say this. They are trying to make sure KO is good. I'm sure the fact that it's a pre-existing injury may help the Jets cause if they can prove it (by the cyst in the labrum)
Doesn't matter if you think it's pre existing or KO playing games, this makes the Jets look bad. This forum might be the only place on the internet even considering the Jets side of this and we don't even know for sure. Of all the things that happened this year why the Jets chose this hill to die on.. I just don't get it. But now we look more inept as an entire org (even if it's not the truth)
Ughh… So apparently this already really bad situation actually managed to go ahead and get worse. What a terrible season the Jets are having. I had such high hopes for KO too. Seeing interviews with him and stuff I know we never "really" get to know these guys but I never in 1000 years thought he'd be anything but a big help and positive influence on the rest of the team. Both on the field and off it for that matter.
Kelechi Osemele released https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...uld-pursue-legal-action-against-team-doctors/
This is what I will say and I speak from experience and yes I consider myself pretty knowledgeable when it comes to shoulder surgeries as I have had 3 operations------In fairness to the Jets the Doctors had no clue as to the extent of the damage until they actually went into the shoulder. Sure the MRI gives them a picture of what is going on but its never the entire picture -----> now I ask did the the Jets handle this well ? No, I thought Gase gave BS answers the other day and this magnifies the situation as something tells me that Connor Hughes already knew the answer to his questions and Gase did a poor job answering him.
I believe the bold to be true. I had a torn rotator cuff in late 2001, and once the doctors got inside it was worse than they thought. With that being the case, the Jets should never have doubted Osemele, and should have given him the surgery.
