First and foremost, here's to hoping modern medicine clears all this up so that Alex Smith can finally stop going under the knife and get a little peace of mind. Football aside, the unknown of internal infections and the everyday importance of one's legs is a frightening combination, so I can't even imagine what Alex Smith the person, as opposed to Alex Smith the quarterback, must be going through mentally while getting repeatedly dissected physically. That being said, doesn't the shocking nature of this news really speak to how routine we consider the recovery process following injuries that are damn close to dismemberment? We watched Alex Smith's leg do things that toys for children under the age of 6 aren't legally allowed to do. Then we winced while begrudgingly watching it again in slow motion to make sure we really did see the Saw-esque scene that we thought we saw the first time. Then we basically just offered him a casual "goodbye and a good luck" while under the assumption that he'd quickly be pieced back together well enough for him to be putting his weight behind NFL caliber passes by the start of next season. That's pretty crazy when you actually think about it. Hopefully this is just the most harrowing of hiccup in Alex Smith's healing process. However, our expectation that even the most sophisticated of surgeries will go as smoothly as a band-aid over a paper cut in allowing for a somewhat seamless return to the most physically demanding of professional sports is a credit to both the athletes themselves and the doctors that could put Humpty Dumpty back together again with a high rate success. That's the last possible way in which you want to see a career potentially come to an end, but it sure is mystifying that it's not the way a whole lot more do.
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