RIP Nick Chubb’s Knee
Seems like complaints about showing gruesome sports injuries on TV has finally reached the actual broadcasters of said sports. I can’t remember ever seeing an instance where a broadcast simply does not show a replay at all. I’ve seen them show a couple replays and then stop when they realize what they were broadcasting, but to hear Buck and Aikman simply go “yeah we aren’t showing it” as the crowd in the stadium gasps in unison was new to me.
It wasn’t like that everywhere apparently, as the UK broadcast blasted it so replays of the injury still found their way into online circulation pretty fast. When I did stumble on it, I understood why they didn’t show it. It was one of the gnarliest knee injuries I’ve ever seen. I do not recommend looking it up. If you remember Willis Mcgahee, that’s about right. A knee that bends the wrong way, way too far.
I don’t know if Chubb is going to be able to reasonably come back from it. This is the same knee that he had pretty much an identical injury on back in college. The knee has already been severely reconstructed. Fixing up a youthful college-age knee might work, but he’s now 27 with many more years of wear on the same knee. We may never get the same Nick Chubb after this, and it hurts. Chubb was the most likable guy on the team by far. He was so good you even kinda wanted him to succeed just to spite the other guy.
Speaking of the other guy, fuck that guy. He sucks. But now he sucks both literally and figuratively! The Watson trade was ridiculous and a severe overpay even before you take into account his crimes. The Browns burned all goodwill to get this loser and he’s not even good. In Monday’s game he threw bad passes, took bad sacks (one of which led to the game-winning defensive score), and got in scuffles with the refs. I don’t know how he didn’t get flagged or ejected when he shoved that ref. I’ve seen players get ejected for far less ref-touching. He also got flagged twice for facemasking defenders on scrambles. I’ve never seen that. I’d say the refs don’t like him either but…well why didn’t they eject him?
A lot of people want to see Watson get hurt. I can’t go that far, I can’t wish actual harm on him. It would always be more satisfying if he was just total ass. Luckily that’s the timeline we appear to live in. A full offseason hasn’t seemed to help the 260 Million Dollar man get his swag back, instead he’s a giant anchor of scorn and failure around the neck of the team that now has to rely on him even more to win games. Serves you right, Browns.
I would like to be the first to suggest that Salty Baker be a recurring character in future comics. lol
Seconded. If anyone deserves to play that role, its Baker Mayfield.
Baker doing well in Tampa thus far while Watson continues to struggle is peak karma.
He should change his name to Salt Shaker Mayfield.
That’s not bad
At least Chubb got paid before all this shit.
The face masking calls should have been expected. We all know that Watson can’t keep his hands to himself when he’s excited.
This actually made me LOL.
I remember seeing the injury that Chubb suffered while he was still at UGA and thinking it was going to be another Marcus Lattimore case where he’d never come close to being the same player again even if he managed to come back. The fact that he not only overcame that but ended up turning into one of the best backs in the NFL is a testament to will and work ethic. I hope he can pull it off again, but even if he can’t, that was still one helluva comeback story.
the Browns is the Browns. this is in no way unexpected, though still incredibly tragic. I hope he can walk again.
I saw a headline saying Watson has to step it up now and play up to his contract. he wasn’t doing that WITH one of the best backs in the league to prop him up, how does anyone expect him to get good again now?
Maybe the refs are among the people hoping he’ll get injured and that’s why they didn’t eject him. Less chances of him getting hurt if he’s on the bench
I agree with that. Where are the 70s Raiders when you need them
“A lot of people want to see Watson get hurt. I can’t go that far, I can’t wish actual harm on him. It would always be more satisfying if he was just total ass.”
Absolutely not. Fumbles, sacks, pick-sixes, flags, even getting cut–these are all normal football things that happen to normal football players. Deshaun Watson is possibly the worst person to ever play the game professionally. It’s an injustice that he’s on the field at all. He deserves much worse.
I like that we get to see him humiliated on the field.
In this regard you have made the women he victimized components of your entertainment, background characters in another subplot to one of the many storylines of the NFL season.
And I don’t even really judge that as harshly as it sounds, given it’s likely the closest thing to justice anyone is going to get. But personally, I’d prefer to see him humiliated in a newsreel about his sentencing hearing.
I dont think anyone *wouldn’t* prefer to see him sentenced and off the field, it’s more that we’ve recognized that isn’t going to happen, so like you said this is the closest we will get.
I don’t know if I can call him the worst person to ever play in a world with Darren Sharper, Kellen Winslow Jr., Rae Carruth and Aaron Hernandez, but he’s definitely top ten.
The closest of these is Sharper who had, by my count, a little over half the number of allegations against him that Watson has.
Wait, hiring a hitman to kill your pregnant girlfriend doesn’t register?
Of course it registers. What also registers is sexually assaulting or raping nearly two dozen women, entrapping them with threats and intimidation, and not registering a single iota of remorse about any of it.
And of the possible things you could have argued from my initial comment, this is the dumbest.
Don’t forget OJ.
The injury this most reminds me of is Napoleon McCallum from the 90’s. Based on what happened there it unfortunately does not look good for Chubb to return.
But a meager silver lining is that for the Browns ownership and organization*, the rapey albatross becomes that much heavier around their necks.
* For the longstanding fans, well hopefully Donavan Mitchell can take the Cavs a little further next year and the Guardians can keep punching above their payroll.
McCallum’s was the worst, by far. He almost lost the leg. I’ve never seen a hyperextension of the knee that almost went 90 degrees the wrong way. It was sickening to watch.
I just wanted to comment that this is comic is very nicely drawn. I really like it from an artistic perspective.
It’s also great as a comic. Get well soon Chubb, I HOPE you can come back. Fuck you, Mr Rapist, I hope you throw 30 ints this year.
Dear Dave,
After all the lovely news that came out today about the Bears, I think I want to die. Life is suffering and I can’t even say go sports team anymore.
I’m turning off the NFL from any of my money from now on.
It takes a lot for me to wish injury on someone. Being an arrogant asshole doesn’t do it. Being a killer of my favorite team doesn’t do it. Those guys I just want to suck. You gotta _deserve_ to get hurt. You gotta be not just a hateable player, but a person who actively makes the game, or the world, a worse place.
Watson is one of those guys.
Fuck him. Hope he tears both ACLs and gets CTE all in one ridiculously gruesome career ending hit.
Side note, still upset Vontaze Burfict never suffered any kind of catastrophic injury. Dude deserved it more than anyone.