{"id":1938405,"date":"2023-05-26T04:23:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-player-says-the-jets-cut-him-after-he-took-medical-advice-from-team-doctor\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T04:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T08:25:26","slug":"nfl-player-says-the-jets-cut-him-after-he-took-medical-advice-from-team-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-player-says-the-jets-cut-him-after-he-took-medical-advice-from-team-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets cut player for following team doctor&#8217;s advice."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfl-player-says-the-jets-cut-him-after-he-took-medical-advice-from-team-doctor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938405&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Brutal Reality of Being a Running Back in the NFL<\/h2>\n<p>Once one of the most prized players on a football team, running backs have become shockingly disposable in the modern NFL. While the league used to be stacked with superstar running backs, many current NFL teams employ a \u201cplatoon\u201d of backs, with multiple players splitting the load rather than one star getting the bulk of the carries. But that strategy has had some unintended human consequences, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the curious case of Ty Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old shared a video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CscAmlvPmR9\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> last Friday in which he revealed the harsh reality of being a running back in 2023. In the video, which appears to be a sponsored post for ice bath equipment, Johnson sat in said ice bath and discussed various aspects of his NFL career, which has seen stops with the Detroit Lions and, most recently, the New York Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said he was recovering from surgery after tearing his pectoral muscle. He claimed he suffered that injury in the offseason and told the Jets about it ahead of time. \u201cSaw the team doctor. He said, \u2018You need to get it fixed,\u2019\u201d Johnson said. \u201cFlew out the next day. Come back happy that I got it done, even though I didn\u2019t want to get it done.\u201d Shortly thereafter, Johnson was cut.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tough to blame him for feeling a bit miffed. Being told by your employer to get a surgery you don\u2019t want, getting it, and then getting the boot is a brutal hand to be dealt. But by the same token, the entire sports world can be cutthroat in that regard. Professional sports is a brutal meritocracy, after all.<\/p>\n<h3>The Tradeoff for Playing Professional Football<\/h3>\n<p>Johnson, who has not caught on with another team since being cut by the Jets, never quite fit into a very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-player-says-the-jets-cut-him-after-he-took-medical-advice-from-team-doctor\/\" title=\"Jets cut player for following team doctor's advice.\">crowded running back room<\/a> in New York. The Jets already had Breece Hall, Michael Carter and Zonovan Knight ahead of him on the depth chart. Days after cutting Johnson, the team used a fifth<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drew-brees-announces-retirement\/\" title=\"Drew Brees Announces Retirement\">-round draft pick<\/a> on another running back, securing a dirt-cheap player on a multi-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>This is the tradeoff for being blessed enough to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-nfl-qb-tom-brady-smashes-390-yard-drive-in-the-match-against-pga-pros\/\" title=\"WATCH: NFL QB Tom Brady Smashes 390-Yard Drive In \u2018The Match\u2019 Against PGA Pros\">play professional football<\/a>. NFL front offices often treat players more as numeric values against a team\u2019s ledger than as actual human beings, and that happens because of the league\u2019s strict salary cap and exorbitant contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has a tough road ahead of him if he wants to sign with another<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Sanders, today&#8217;s NFL sees running backs as easily replaceable. Despite being once highly valued, they are now considered disposable. The league used to have superstar running backs like Jim Brown, Emmitt Smith, Adrian Peterson, and Barry Sanders, but not anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":1938406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[7033,9677,7213,8069,4016,4000],"class_list":["post-1938405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-advice","tag-cut","tag-doctors","tag-jets","tag-player","tag-team"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}