Michael Hoecht Achilles Injury (Confirmed torn Achilles out for the year)

[Coach Tuesday]

Only silver lining is that Epanesa is playing his best football.

[boyst]

52 minutes ago, NoSaint said:

Didn’t see the leg jiggle but 

 

to go performance enhancers straight to non contact injury like that would suck

To go that kind of injury from PED's is 100% a thing. The muscles and strength overpower the tendons and ligaments and body itself. 

[QCity]

A PED abuser gets injured. I think quite as few of us saw this coming.

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by QCity

[LabattBlue]

😞😞😞

[Watkins90]

29 minutes ago, Generic_Bills_Fan said:

Man just feels like the von miller situation all over again…guy was a wrecking ball his first game+ back then gets a serious injury.  

At least he is fairly young, unlike Von. 

[bigK14094]

33 minutes ago, 5ths the charm said:

Lots of soft tissue injuries. Poor conditioning.

Yes, a change of trainers is appropriate in my view.

[Boatdrinks]

Sucks for the Bills he was bringing another element to the D line. 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

Just now, Watkins90 said:

At least he is fairly young, unlike Von. 

Yea and not a massive contract lol still a pretty sizable one though 

[billsfan89]

10 minutes ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:

If the man tore his Achilles he wouldn’t be chillin on the bench I call bull####

Hoping that’s the case too. Doesn’t look good but also not ready to say he’s 100% torn Achilles 

[Rousseauisnoschmo]

3 minutes ago, NoSaint said:

That we can talk about him being a nice addition that we would rather have than not have but…. No need to pretend he’s the GUY.

I guess I must have been hallucinating because the pass rush looked absolutely dominant with him on the field. I bet if we sign Adam Sandler to reprise his role as the waterboy well be just fine.

[FireChans]

12 minutes ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:

If the man tore his Achilles he wouldn’t be chillin on the bench I call bull####

I think he didn’t want to spend the game in the locker room when he knows that an extra hr of rest ain’t gonna make a difference.

 

 

[BeastMaster]

Shawne Merriman 2.0

 

Bills fans need to stop drooling over a guy who used PEDs and probably hurt himself because of it

 

He'd be cut in the offseason if I was GM

[The Firebaugh Kid]

6 minutes ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

Popped the Achilles and still tried to play through the whistle. That's tough.

I think he popped a calf, if he tore his Achilles tendon right there there’s no way he would even be able to move like that. 

Edited 7 hours ago by The Firebaugh Kid

[Brianmoorman4jesus]

55 was an absolute monster and made such a huge difference. This really sucks. The injury run we are on with defense over the last two and a half years is inconceivable. It just never ends

[Shortchaz]

Insane amount of DL injuries this season. Absolutely crazy. 

[zow2]

5 minutes ago, Success said:

 

Hoecht is probably our first very significant season-ender (thought I'm holding out a sliver of hope).  

 

It sounds like Oliver could be back for the playoffs.  If we can stay relatively healthy now, and get some guys back, we'll be in good shape.  Every team loses a really key guy or 2 by the end.

 

Bummed, though.  He gave us a lot.

 

 

People freak out here and i get it. But injuries are part of the game. it’s hard to accept. whichever good team has the least injuries may survive to late playoffs. I mean Green Bay lost superstar TE Tucker Kraft today likely to an ACL. Same with the Niners excellent rookie D-end.  Joe Alt needs an MRI on his ankle, he’s a huge loss for the Chargers.  My only thing is to maybe give someone like Bosa some downtime because he’s ripe for an injury if he keeps this up.

[Doc Brown]

McDermott just confirmed it.  Really sucks but next man up.

[Tierlifer]

Torn Achilles as per McD in post game presser just now. 

[Rousseauisnoschmo]

9 minutes ago, QCity said:

A PED abuser gets injured. I think quite as few of us saw this coming.

 

 

You don't think most of them are doing PEDs. That's hilarious.

[gordong]

we just cant have nice things... this injury really dampens the win...  going to be very hard to replace him.