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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I know its not an exact matchup. But with the football team that I coached, we had a kid at running back who badly shattered his leg last year and missed the season. He came back and he was tentative and afraid to take hits and was just unsure of himself, and I think in his mind he was freaking out and worried about any hit breaking his leg again.
After two games we were considering moving him to a backup or receiver role and looking at promoting our full back to half back, cause at least we'd get 3 bruising yards a carry. But in game three he took a hard hit to the leg, and he stood up and flexed it a couple of times, of course as coaches we're like "oh shyte man". But he stayed in and ripped a dive for about 5 yards, and bounced up. After that he was dominant for the rest of the year and looked like the player that we thought he'd be before the injury.
Sean looks like a guy that's focused on an injury and because of that he looks slow and tentative and he looks like he's second guessing everything that he does.
But I'll tell you what, I firmly believe that he'll get there, he'll find something to build his confidence, or he'll wake up one morning and feel like a different person.
Because frankly this team is what 5-6-1 without the top line being good or even near to last year.
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My suggestion was to drop Monahan and Chiasson down to third line duty for a few games, perhaps with a guy like Bouma. Tell him not to worry about scoring but just to crash and bang, be physical on the cycle. If he can't do it then you know he's injured and/or playing tentative and that won't change if you keep gifting him minutes on the top line and on the PP with Johnny. On the other hand, if he can get used to skating and getting into the flow of the game, I think he'll eventually start finding the open areas again and that's when you put him back with Johnny.