{"id":25151,"date":"2014-06-05T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T17:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=25151"},"modified":"2022-04-01T03:46:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:46:38","slug":"dimitri-pattersons-injury-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2014\/06\/05\/dimitri-pattersons-injury-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitri Patterson’s Injury History"},"content":{"rendered":"

One topic that was discussed on the last episode of JetNation Radio<\/a> was\u00a0Dimitri Patterson’s injury history. \u00a0A caller, Matt Keach, expressed some concerns about Dimitri Paterson and Angelo Berkowtiz added, “I am terrified of the idea of Dimtri Paterson starting at cornerback. \u00a0He played 6 games last year and 9 games the year before.” \u00a0Actually Paterson has only played in 15 games the past three seasons. \u00a0The concerns are real though.<\/p>\n

Dimitri Paterson addressed his injury history and these concerns yesterday.<\/p>\n

If you look at my career, I\u2019ve been in nine years, the last two years I had an ankle, I had a groin. My first six or seven years, I had no injuries.\u00a0 No one wants to talk about that.\u00a0 But the reality of the situation is that\u2019s what\u2019s most recent. So if you look at my career I\u2019ve been extremely productive, but if there\u2019s one bad thing to say about (me) what are you going to say, \u201cOh, he\u2019s been injured, he\u2019s been hurt the last two year.\u201d Okay, that\u2019s fine, that\u2019s football. You\u2019re going to get hurt. I look at it as the glass half full and say hey I have not had a skill diminishing injury, I have not had a career threatening injury, I had an ankle and I had a groin. I bounced back from those, I feel good about where I am at now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do feel a little better about the situation after the perspective that Paterson put on the situation. Coming back from a groin injury is much better than rehabbing from a torn ACL. \u00a0They aren’t the kind of injuries that should impact his ability going-forward. \u00a0Simply put, the Jets need to find a way to keep him on the field and healthy.<\/p>\n

You look at a guy in his career, has he had skill diminishing injuries, to where he\u2019s had those violent injuries to where there is a setback in his natural ability? They did their research and see that\u2019s not the case, and that\u2019s why I am here right now. So I look at it as the now and moving forward, you know it\u2019s all good, but I acknowledge that, but you move forward and it\u2019s all good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The games don’t start until September. \u00a0John Idzik will be graded on this signing and the grade will depend in large part to the number of games Paterson plays. \u00a0The Jets let Antonio Cromartie walk and didn’t sign a high priced free agent replacement. \u00a0That leaves the team with a huge opening next to 2nd year cornerback Dee Milliner. \u00a0To his credit Patterson wouldn’t be drawn into a side by side comparison with Antonio Cromartie.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s not about comparing or anything like that because Cromartie is a good player in his own right. But they had a really good feel for what I bring as far as how I fit into this scheme and what\u2019s asked of the corners in this scheme. Like I said I don\u2019t have a high profile name, but I (will) put my film against anybody\u2019s. That is the reality of the situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The competition at cornerback will be something that we watch closely and report on during minicamp and again when Jets training camp starts in July.<\/p>\n\"Dimitri<\/a>\n

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One topic that was discussed on the last episode of JetNation Radio was\u00a0Dimitri Patterson’s injury history. \u00a0A caller, Matt Keach, expressed some concerns about Dimitri Paterson and Angelo Berkowtiz added, “I am terrified of the idea of Dimtri Paterson starting at cornerback. \u00a0He played 6 games last year and 9 games the year before.” \u00a0Actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1337],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-home-slider"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/USATSI_7503026_158813650_lowres.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-6xF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25210,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151\/revisions\/25210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}