Cade posts on Snapagram that he had knee surgery
For those of you young whippersnappers with one of those fancy apps and an account, there's a link to his post in the story. For the rest of us, there's the actual story.
November 10th, 2022 at 10:26 PM ^
I guess the young folk also know about that handy search function
November 10th, 2022 at 10:29 PM ^
Eh, this has some new information.
Cade details that he suffered a knee injury mid-season last year, and another serious one this year. I could be off base but that was never reported?
I take way more issue with the intentional “not knowing” of what social medias are called. It’s a stale bit, and they’ve been out for 10 years.
November 11th, 2022 at 7:24 AM ^
Ah, c'mon Paps. Let the old guy enjoy his life of happy ignorance.
November 11th, 2022 at 7:39 AM ^
Speaking for myself, it's not that I don't know what they are, although I sometimes forget which social media is for what. It's more a case that for me, they are on list of things like NASCAR, opera, reality television, and Rob Schneider movies: I have absolutely no interest in them.
I know what they are. I just don't care.
November 10th, 2022 at 10:34 PM ^
Oh, do you mean the post that left everyone asking "surgery for what?"
November 10th, 2022 at 10:44 PM ^
The young folk also know Snapchat isn’t the same thing as Instagram
November 10th, 2022 at 11:51 PM ^
Wait, you mean Snapgram and Instachat, and what about these things called FaceTok and TikBook???
November 11th, 2022 at 8:17 AM ^
But isn't Bookface now called Metamucil? Or something like that?
November 11th, 2022 at 7:01 AM ^
Did I just join Sherman and Peabody in the Way Back machine (Smothers Brothers, good memories, Pat Paulsen for president)?
1) I wish Cade a complete and rapid recovery
2) I wonder how much the injury affected his game.
November 11th, 2022 at 8:34 AM ^
It’s like Truman said: “you can’t spell jdraman without drama”
November 10th, 2022 at 10:38 PM ^
Best wishes to Cade for a speedy and successful recovery. But damn, he has some large leg muscles.
November 10th, 2022 at 10:58 PM ^
Love those Ann Arbor palm trees in the background.
November 11th, 2022 at 9:04 AM ^
It's a ploy to get SEC teams to come up to the Big House for a game. 'Duh, palm trees...'
Of course, Warde would just cancel the game and replace them with South Central Vermont St.
November 10th, 2022 at 11:14 PM ^
I hope he has a quick and full recovery and is back on the field soon!
November 10th, 2022 at 11:20 PM ^
I was wondering if this had been some sort of knee issue. Seeing the (unbeknownst at the time) season-ending hit to his leg in person, it seemed like it could end up as a nagging meniscus or MCL sprain, but not a visibly devastating knee injury. Either way he limped off the field in a way that wasn’t promising.
Huge fan of Cade and I wish him a speedy recovery, hoping his best football is still ahead of him.
November 11th, 2022 at 4:55 AM ^
Still seems odd. Why wait so long for surgery? Why wait so long to let everyone know it’s a knee injury?
All I know is I wish him the BEST. Dude will always be remembered as leading our team to one of its best seasons in almost two decades.
November 11th, 2022 at 5:25 AM ^
Why do you think he should feel compelled to tell anyone about his injury? That's entirely up to him.
November 11th, 2022 at 6:47 AM ^
Not our business
November 11th, 2022 at 7:03 AM ^
Perhaps surgery is season ending while there was a possibility of playing again this season if he gave healing itself a try.
November 11th, 2022 at 8:14 AM ^
Because surgery is usually the last resort. If he could rehab and still be active the rest of the year (probably while wearing a bulky brace), he likely would have done so in case JJ goes down. Looks like the rehab wasn't working, so he opted to do the surgery now instead of after the season.
November 11th, 2022 at 10:11 AM ^
He said it himself. He used the phrase "turns out" when describing how his knee issue last year was worse than thought. So obviously he didn't realize it was as bad as it was and/or his symptoms didn't indicate the severity of the problem.
November 11th, 2022 at 10:47 AM ^
My complete guess is that an MRI showed a sprain or partial tear of something and they tried to manage it nonoperatively. It didn’t get better so surgery was the next step. If I were a betting man, I’d bet that the “more severe than originally thought”, came from the surgeon who probably said that after getting in there with the camera and realized the MRI didn’t tell the whole story. Just speculating though.
November 11th, 2022 at 8:44 AM ^
When I saw Cade limp off, under his own power, I didn't think it would be a devastating or season ending injury. Typically when those adjectives are applied to an injury, you are carted or helped off the field by trainers while bearing very little load on the affected joint. I know Cade is tough but is he THAT tough? And the two month delay to undergo surgery would indicate the doctors guided him to rehab with physical therapy first before considering surgery. Again, devastating/season ending injuries usually go to surgery quite quickly, especially being an athlete in a high profile program. If soft cartilage is torn, it's torn and that is diagnosed quite quickly with MRI.
And no, I am not a doctor but I have had "season ending injuries" in the past, well, beer league hockey or lawn mowing season anyway.
All that said, I wish Cade nothing but the best going forward. I hope he stays at Michigan but would understand if he wanted to move on.
November 11th, 2022 at 5:11 PM ^
After suffering an injury when surgery was anticipated and recommended, I was advised to first undergo physical therapy.
My physical therapist called it "prehab" to strengthen the muscles around the injured area before undergoing surgery. He said that it most likely would shorten the rehab time.
Months of physical therapy plus an injection near the site of the injury allowed me to avoid surgery.
If Cade McNamara's orthopedists offered similar advice, then at worst, he has strengthened his leg muscles and the ligaments and tendons surrounding the knee, and it may be that he'll be better off for having undergone physical therapy before surgery. Hope he'll be back running and ready to play football by the time the 2023 season starts.
SOMEWHAT OT: As for his football future, he has a redshirt year from 2019, a COVID-related extra year from 2020 and what should be a medical-redshirt year for 2022. He's 22 years old and in his fourth year at Michigan. If he'll graduate in the spring or summer of 2023, would this give him three more seasons of college football as a graduate student or will he be limited to two more seasons whether at Michigan or elsewhere?
November 10th, 2022 at 11:53 PM ^
Maybe we know why he never ran the ball now.
November 11th, 2022 at 4:31 PM ^
That would explain it.
November 10th, 2022 at 11:59 PM ^
Glad to see he’s healing and doing well! I was genuinely concerned about the guy.
Hopefully, he can be on our sideline as a Captain when these hard hitting motherfuckers win the National Championship!
November 11th, 2022 at 8:33 AM ^
Nebraska is beating us for the NC-without Frost???
November 11th, 2022 at 12:01 AM ^
So the kid helped win a B1G championship and got us to the playoffs while injured. That shines an ugly new light on some of the comments made early in the season.
November 11th, 2022 at 12:55 AM ^
It also explains why he was so reluctant to run (and the staff was reluctant to ask him to).
November 11th, 2022 at 5:03 AM ^
I wonder if this impacted his accuracy?
November 11th, 2022 at 7:15 AM ^
No sure but he stopped running and looked slower the 2nd half of the year.
November 11th, 2022 at 7:26 AM ^
Michigan is "indebted" to Cade. Beyond last year, he could've got surgery after last season...especially after JJ was sidelined and their was less fear of losing his starting job with both of them out. He went all spring, maybe to try and get a leg up (no pun intended), maybe because he thought he could rehab without surgery like JJ and others did, maybe both...regardless of the reason, Michigan had a starting QB all spring to help prepare this team we see today.
And a leader to help make sure all off season that this team remembered Georgia...not OSU and Iowa.
This is somewhat of a reach, I fully admit this. Michigan isn't the team we'll see tomorrow without Cade this offseason. I'll go to my grave believing that.
His direct impact on 3 teams (20, 21, 22) and his part in changing the culture at Michigan...I hope Michigan, the program, the fans, etc. all honor this kid the way he deserves to be honored, now and well beyond. And I hope he accepts that love and remains a Wolverine forever (even if he finishes his career in another jersey).
November 11th, 2022 at 2:06 PM ^
Well said...
November 11th, 2022 at 2:07 PM ^
Well said...
November 11th, 2022 at 7:43 AM ^
Get well Cade, wishing you a full and speedy recovery.
November 11th, 2022 at 8:32 AM ^
Hopefully this shuts up all the d-bags who are saying Cade "quit" on the team this season. Dude is forever a Michigan legend and doesn't owe anything to anyone.
November 11th, 2022 at 10:48 AM ^
D-bags will always exist. It's all they have.
Get well soon, Captain.
November 11th, 2022 at 9:00 AM ^
Wishing Cade a complete and quick recovery. And, success in every endeavor. Go Blue! Always…
November 11th, 2022 at 9:54 AM ^
O Captain! My Captain!
A Michigan legend was born that dark night in Piscataway. Saved Harbaugh's job and spared us another quixotic coaching search that would've left us in a much worse place today.
Get well soon, champ.
November 11th, 2022 at 9:55 AM ^
Heal up fast, young man. Thanks for all that you've done for Michigan!
November 11th, 2022 at 10:37 AM ^
This is not an excuse. Cade should have fought off the Sparty thugs who attacked McBurrows, taught all the receivers how to catch contested balls, and gotten Jadyn Davis to commit already. Leaders lead.
November 11th, 2022 at 11:24 AM ^
Who do you think he is, Michael Barrett?
November 11th, 2022 at 7:32 PM ^
Interesting that there’s no mention of Michigan or Go Blue, etc.
November 11th, 2022 at 9:24 PM ^
New Michigan commercial. Dunno if I love it but I'm glad they are trying
November 11th, 2022 at 9:25 PM ^
Hummel still has his mouthpiece in in case he has one more year of eligibility