Tynes Struggling With MRSA
August 28th, 2013
While the Bucs have offered information that Bucs guard Carl Nicks is responding well to his treatment with MRSA, Bucs coach Greg Schiano noted yesterday he wasn’t sure of how well kicker Lawrence Tynes is recovering as Tynes is out of town.
Well, Tynes’ wife Amanda put out an ominous Twitter update of her husband, and in the process wasn’t so hip on the Bucs allegedly suggesting Tynes is responding “well.”
@AmandaTynes9: I hear my husband is responding “well” to treatment. LOL! He’s NOT responding at all yet. This is our #bucslife
The picture in the post is a photo of Tynes that his wife Twittered out as he is on an IV with a PICC device to help the flow of the medicine into the bloodstream.
MRSA, an aggressive, dangerous form of staph infection that is resistant to common antibiotics is nothing to screw around with, as evidenced by the Tynes photo and by how quickly the Bucs reacted to two bouts of delousing One Buc Palace.
This is why Joe thinks it is folly to even expect Nicks to start for the Bucs next Sunday in New Jersey.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:15 am
“Infected toes on the line”……
August 28th, 2013 at 10:16 am
I think he’ll be back week two.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:19 am
Cry me a river. People get sick everyday. People die from cancer. People are fighting for us in warzones and dying. Lady, stop feeling sorry for yourself – he’ll get better. He’s made a ton of money kicking a football. Consider yourself fortunate.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:20 am
Hope Tynes beats this quickly.
Sad to sign a guy and get him infected at team the team facility.
Our team is questionable enough, medical issues aside.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:25 am
Wow, I bet she’s a real treat to live with…
August 28th, 2013 at 10:25 am
Sounds like the wife is a little bitter. Sh-t happens. Life happens. Face it head on and deal with it. Stop implying that the Bucs are somehow at fault with your sarcastic bucslife hash tag at the end. Nothing I hate more than a whiner or finger-pointer. Man-up (or woman-up) and deal.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:27 am
Sometimes I wonder what your articles are trying to accomplish? Seriously? I suggest you reread this one Joe bUCS “fan”?
August 28th, 2013 at 10:29 am
Look Amanda….your husband is a kicker Ok? a kicker? I know he is important to you but you cannot expect a professional NFL team to care much. Sorry…get a puppy if you want unconditional love
August 28th, 2013 at 10:32 am
Wow that poor bastard looks miserable. Makes me feel for him. And I sure hope Nicks is doing better than Tynes
August 28th, 2013 at 10:34 am
Dam I want to reply back to the woman, but what do you expect the organization to say?? He is not responding well and we will wait for the next step of action?? Dam woman needs to calm the eff down, shes not the only person affection by the NFL occupational hazards.
Are the bucs to even blame for his infection?
August 28th, 2013 at 10:34 am
I think the family of Mr Tynes knows that he would be jobless after the preseason and this good way of sueing the bucs. Mr Tynes is not at One Buc Place. MR NICKS IS!!!
This is all about money. Otherwise you wouldnt tweet pictures like that.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:39 am
Schiano clearly said he couldn’t comment on Tynes because he doesn’t have contact with him. I don’t know what his wife is upset about. They didn’t find anything that even indicated our facility is where the infection took place. Seems the Bucs did the right things from the start to me.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:41 am
Yikes! Doesn’t sound like they are too happy with the Bucs! Glazers better get out their checkbook for a settlement! Dom knows knees, but he don’t know MRSA.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:41 am
@Chef
Nicks was recently seen out dining w/ friends, PICC line in arm and visible to all…….he’s dealing with his ailment by doing what he likes to do best…..eat.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:42 am
I bet Tynes brought the infection with him from New York, which is why he isn’t doing to well, and Nicks is. Nicks found out about it quicker than Tynes did.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:45 am
MRSA is omnipresent. For all we know, Tynes was a carrier and introduced it into his wound himself. I don’t see where anyone can identify the Bucs or their training staff at fault here. The bug can be found anywhere.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:45 am
She is definately not a “Buccaneer Woman”…..
Tynes is probably thinking to himself “Shut up b***h….I may still have a chance of making this team!!!
August 28th, 2013 at 10:46 am
Joe Jurevicius sued the Cleveland Browns over MRSA and won.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:49 am
And why would Tynes let her post that and publicly mock the team he is signed to? Kickers. Psh…
August 28th, 2013 at 10:50 am
@Chef
I was thinking the same thing. He looks almost out of it
August 28th, 2013 at 10:54 am
Shut the Buc Up,
It was mentioned that Tynes was “progressing”… Mr. and Mrs. Tynes can set the record stragitht, nothing wrong with that.
Sad, and hope Tynes has a speed recovery. It is the unfortunate truth.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:58 am
stevek, does “setting the record straight” have to include “this is our #bucslife”? just seems like a bit of a slap in the face to the team that gave him an opportunity to continue his career.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:00 am
She must want her husband to get cut faster is all. Seriously, get your wife under control. Smart people wouldn’t have twatted that.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:03 am
Stay classy there M Organ.
Feel badly for Tynes and wish him a speedy recovery.
While it’s hard to blame his wife for being upset, the tweet insinuating the Bucs are at fault is pretty foolish.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:05 am
Shut the Buc Up,
It may also be the team that ends his career. Have to think Tynes knows more about where he got the infection than those of us on here.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:10 am
Wish Tynes the best. Walter and Morgan may be correct. If I am not mistaken Tynes arrived with a Toe issues. Supposedly a ingrown toenail. Maybe he is the one who introduced it. I know it’s not PC but PC is part of the problem is this world. Anyhow, I wish him well but I think it’s a little out of place when players wives chime in.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:14 am
For all the people jumping all over the wife — do you live alone in a cave or something?
Her husband contracted a career-ending, life-threatening infection that is currently eating his flesh. The team glibly said he’s doing fine, the wife wanted to correct the record and say he’s not. She’s got every right to be pissed off at the team’s statement.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:14 am
Shut the Buc Up,
Perhaps it is a backhanded “slap to the face”, but why would the Bucs say he is “progressing”, and he has not yet responded to the treatment of MRSA?
Sure, the information did not need to be tweeted, but why did the Bucs mention Tynes + Progress?
I am sure Lawrence Tynes would have rather retired happily, then got sick at our facilities…
I understand the disrespect it may conjure, but the Bucs should not have mentioned “progress + Tynes”, without it being the real deal.
Wives will be wives.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:16 am
Now…back to our regularly scheduled program of “Josh Bashing”…;)
August 28th, 2013 at 11:17 am
“She must want her husband to get cut faster is all. Seriously, get your wife under control. Smart people wouldn’t have twatted that.”
Tynes will be under treatment for MRSA for months. He’s got no shot of making the team this season, and if the Bucs put him on the non-football injury list he won’t be paid a penny by the team.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:19 am
Who said Tynes was progressing? I watched the press conference and Schiano said in these specific words that he was not sure of Tynes and was more sure of Nicks because Nicks has been there.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:23 am
Couch Fan,
Schiano said both Nicks and Tynes were “responding well.”
http://tbo.com/sports/bucs/bucsx2019-nicks-tynes-x2018responding-wellx2019-to-mrsa-treatment-20130827/
August 28th, 2013 at 11:26 am
I think it’s folly for Joe to expect to see Nicks by weeks 5 or 6.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:42 am
Is Mrs.Tynes a doctor or nurse? MRSA can be life threatening. The fact that he has time to sit on his comfy couch and snap Twitpics doesn’t exactly tell me its a dire situation. “Responding well” could mean its not getting worse. I guess we’ll just agree to disagree.
And as for the Bucs ending his career, hospitals have MRSA outbreaks for christs sake. They can happen anywhere, anytime.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:44 am
Buc1987,
The world must be ending, because I agree with you here. Nicks isn’t seeing a football field for a long while.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:50 am
ShutTheBucUP,
You are right on. No one should speak about Tynes’ condition, until it hopefully improves.
It was wrong to mention Tynes as “responding well”, and it was wrong for his wife to tweet about it.
It is just an unfortunate situation, and hopefully Tynes and Nicks will have the opportunity to reclaim their respective careers.
August 28th, 2013 at 11:52 am
I’d cut him and when he asked why, maybe you should keep your wife mute
August 28th, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Charles,
The Bucs signed Lindell the same day they found out that Tynes has MRSA. Do you really think Tynes had a shot at making the team after that?
August 28th, 2013 at 12:22 pm
Another stupid b**** tweeting, you just cost him the job, he will be cut with an injury settlement, Lawrence grow a pair while you recover and tell her to shut up.
Everybody gets sicks and people out there have it tougher.
August 28th, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Really sad to hear.
August 28th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
I think it’s foolish to blame this on the Bucs. There is a good chance he didn’t get this from the Bucs facility, but brought it with. His woman is jumping to conclusions blaming this on the Bucs. She needs to focus on her husband and not Twitter.
August 28th, 2013 at 1:22 pm
lightningbuc…no actually you don’t agree with me. I expect to see Nicks by week 2.
August 28th, 2013 at 1:28 pm
Someone said the other day they think Tynes is seeking an injury settlement from the Bucs.
August 28th, 2013 at 2:33 pm
Is that a boner Tynes is sporting?
August 28th, 2013 at 3:23 pm
Just another wife pissed off her husband is home and not working
August 28th, 2013 at 3:35 pm
Some of you guys angry at his wife need to go check yourself into a mental institution.
It’s not that serious.
August 28th, 2013 at 4:52 pm
Ok who is to say that he isn’t progressing, just because she takes a picture of him looking bad does not mean he isn’t progressing. We don’t know what he looked like before that picture, for all we know he could have been worse. This picture is inconclusive because we have nothing to compare it to. “Responding well” and “Progressing” are two different things and if he wasn’t responding to the medicine I’m sure he would be in the hospital. I feel sorry for the guy but its obvious she is angling for a law suit
August 28th, 2013 at 5:01 pm
Now that was funny Scotty.
I would be embarrassed if my wife did what Mrs Tynes elected to do.
Fact is, hospitals are dirty places. He could have contracted this ailment from her tub, when she kissed his big toe boo boo to make it better or worse if he has some sort of Rex Ryan foot fetish.
August 28th, 2013 at 6:57 pm
HAHAHA…He’s not mad about the infection, he’s mad he’s gotta sit at home with her for two weeks. “Our bucs life” Man she sounds like my ex girlfriend. CRAZY!