Mike LaFleur will speak today. 3/30/26

[Chopper0080]

the disparities on the comments from MLF on MHJ vs Kendrick Bourne are pretty interesting

Counter point would be that he has actually worked with Bourne before and hasn't had those experiences with MHJ yet.

 

[Adrian]

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[Garthshort]

Possible bad news about Conner and Benson = Possible good news for me since I want us to draft Love.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I don't see what the Cardinals get from being so coy about injuries. Just be honest with your fans about what's going on with the team to set realistic expectations. It's not that hard.

Also, Benson is still in rehab, from an MCL Tear? His knee must be really messed up. That's a 6 week injury, 8 week MAX.

 

[kerouac9]

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Guys is this the face of the man to bring the Cards their first Super Bowl championship?

 

[Adrian]

Theo Mackie
@theo_mackie
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Thought this was interesting from LaFleur ahead of the draft:

"You don't have to go out and reach for anything now because of what Monti and the team did in terms of bringing in guys that have played a lot of football in this league."

 

[az jam]

Possible bad news about Conner and Benson = Possible good news for me since I want us to draft Love.

Cards do need to draft an RB but I don't think it will be Love. But who knows what they will do.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Theo Mackie
@theo_mackie
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Thought this was interesting from LaFleur ahead of the draft:

"You don't have to go out and reach for anything now because of what Monti and the team did in terms of bringing in guys that have played a lot of football in this league."

I agree it's interesting.
To me that says no Love.

 

[BullheadCardFan]

Theo Mackie
@theo_mackie
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4h
Thought this was interesting from LaFleur ahead of the draft:

"You don't have to go out and reach for anything now because of what Monti and the team did in terms of bringing in guys that have played a lot of football in this league."

No where does that say they played well

Coach speak IMO

 

[Krangodnzr]

Guys is this the face of the man to bring the Cards their first Super Bowl championship?

Pete Carroll was a pretty darn goofy looking guy.

 

[Harry]

I don't see what the Cardinals get from being so coy about injuries. Just be honest with your fans about what's going on with the team to set realistic expectations. It's not that hard.

Also, Benson is still in rehab, from an MCL Tear? His knee must be really messed up. That's a 6 week injury, 8 week MAX.

MCLs can be tricky. The big concern is ligament instability with can extend rehab. It’s rare but infection can also delay recovery. It’s certainly not good news that Benson is not ready to compete, but it’s early to panic. Still don’t see it leading to Love.

 

[Garthshort]

Harry, you're probably correct, but, I'm still hoping.

 

[HairZach]

MCLs can be tricky. The big concern is ligament instability with can extend rehab. It’s rare but infection can also delay recovery. It’s certainly not good news that Benson is not ready to compete, but it’s early to panic. Still don’t see it leading to Love.

I don't think he had an MCL injury, he tore his meniscus. He went in for a routine meniscus debridement, something that would only take 4-6 weeks to recover from.

The meniscus is supposed to cushion the joints, protect cartilage, prevent bone on bone rubbing. If he's still rehabing his routine surgery 6 months later, that means something went very wrong. If his knee meniscus is messed up, my mind goes to accelerated arthritis and chronic pain/instability.

 

[Russ Smith]

Darren Urban
@Cardschatter
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LaFleur said Walt Nolen, James Conner, Trey Benson are all “trending well” in their rehabs. Wouldn’t say for sure they would be ready for season because it’s too far away, but sounded confident.

Telling you the fact that Benson is still rehabbing tells us either that original injury was way worse than they told us it was, or he had some other setback they didn't tell us about.

He got hurt 9/25, that's 6 months with what they told us was a meniscus. In December 3 months after the injury he was posting online how hard he worked to get back and how disappointed he was but "it wasn't gods plan".


3 months after that he's still rehabbing. I would bet anything he had another surgery.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Theo Mackie
@theo_mackie
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4h
Thought this was interesting from LaFleur ahead of the draft:

"You don't have to go out and reach for anything now because of what Monti and the team did in terms of bringing in guys that have played a lot of football in this league."

Oh man… come on dude. Don’t be another piss on our heads and tell us it’s raining guys.

 

[Russ Smith]

I don't see what the Cardinals get from being so coy about injuries. Just be honest with your fans about what's going on with the team to set realistic expectations. It's not that hard.

Also, Benson is still in rehab, from an MCL Tear? His knee must be really messed up. That's a 6 week injury, 8 week MAX.

They said Meniscus not MCL. The whole thing was always weird he'd already had surgery by the time they told us he was going to be out.

 

[Russ Smith]

Guys is this the face of the man to bring the Cards their first Super Bowl championship?

I am jealous of his hair

 

[Russ Smith]

I agree it's interesting.
To me that says no Love.

Funny because I took it to be him talking about the offensive line?

 

[Cheesebeef]

MCLs can be tricky.

Except I misspoke. It was a torn meniscus. And my father is orthopedic surgeon. So is my best friend. Hell… I just had a meniscus tear last year. They are routinely NOT tricky (according to those very well respected orthopedic surgeons who performed those surgeries in their sleep) and if it is, there’s either bigger issues at play or they’re lying about what the initial injury was, for some stupid reason again.

 

[Cheesebeef]

They said Meniscus not MCL. The whole thing was always weird he'd already had surgery by the time they told us he was going to be out.

That’s what I meant. Makes him even more suspect.

 

[Russ Smith]

Except I misspoke. It was a torn meniscus. And my father is orthopedic surgeon. So is my best friend. Hell… I just had a meniscus tear last year. They are routinely NOT tricky (according to those very well respected orthopedic surgeons who performed those surgeries in their sleep) and if it is, there’s either bigger issues at play or they’re lying about what the initial injury was, for some stupid reason again.

Yeah there's something they haven't told us.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I don't think he had an MCL injury, he tore his meniscus. He went in for a routine meniscus debridement, something that would only take 4-6 weeks to recover from.

The meniscus is supposed to cushion the joints, protect cartilage, prevent bone on bone rubbing. If he's still rehabing his routine surgery 6 months later, that means something went very wrong. If his knee meniscus is messed up, my mind goes to accelerated arthritis and chronic pain/instability.

This.

Was my bad putting us down the MCL road. Mixed it up with torn meniscus, which I knew wasn’t a major surgery.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Yeah there's something they haven't told us.

Just like with Ojulari.

And Nolan.

And/or maybe Kyler last season.

This team is so stupid.

 

[kerouac9]

Pete Carroll was a pretty darn goofy looking guy.

Looks pretty normal to me?

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[CFLredzoned]

Except I misspoke. It was a torn meniscus. And my father is orthopedic surgeon. So is my best friend. Hell… I just had a meniscus tear last year. They are routinely NOT tricky (according to those very well respected orthopedic surgeons who performed those surgeries in their sleep) and if it is, there’s either bigger issues at play or they’re lying about what the initial injury was, for some stupid reason again.

I go to the surgeon tomorrow to talk about my torn meniscus. I did alot of research on it, watching the surgery, interviews with surgeons. My big takeaway is that it's something that takes a long time to heal, if ever completely, because it's basically cartilage that gets almost no blood flow. I think most people (non-athletes probably) don't get surgery and eventually after several months, the symptoms get better. If you're young and the tissue isn't too brittle, they can stitch it. Or if you have a parrot beak situation, they can snip off that hanging bit. That's what I'm going to ask about.

The best advice I got on helping with the healing is to avoid any kind of twisting action. Walk like a robot. Forward and back. That's it. Pick up your feet to grab something in the kitchen instead of twisting. That has helped me. But I can't imagine being a football player and dealing with this. I'll never feel real confident about doing any kind of twisting and planting off this knee.