NFC East Injury News and Updates

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:01 pm

Although he joined the Cowboys as an undrafted free agent, wide receiver Cole Beasley was considered a good bet to make the 53-man roster. But now it appears that Beasley will not play professional football at all.

Beasley informed the team today that he is leaving for personal reasons, possibly even a decision to quit football entirely, according to DallasCowboys.com.

The Cowboys are trying to convince Beasley to come back, but so far they’ve had no luck. Asked about it today, Cowboys VP Stephen Jones said, “it’s too early right now, we’re still working on that.”

The 5-foot-8, 182-pound Beasley has been compared to Wes Welker, although Beasley said last month that he doesn’t like that comparison because he thinks he’s faster than Welker. It’s probably safe to say no one will be comparing Beasley to Welker again.

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:13 pm

@JarrettBell
No. 1 pick Morris Claiborne didn't finish practice today. Knee flared up. MRI. J-Garrett: 'We don't think it's serious.' We'll see.

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:20 pm

An MRI confirms Morris Claiborne's knee tweak is minor. Should resume practicing soon.

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:40 pm

‏@clarencehilljr
Cole Beasley told Jason Garrett his heart wasn't into it. a shame cause he had chance to make the team.Cboys still hoping to change his mind

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:49 am

Giants search for defensive tackle help leads to Marcus Thomas

The Giants are stacked at defensive end. At defensive tackle, they have concerns.

With Shaun Rogers out for the year with a blood clot in his leg and Chris Canty falling under the “other” category of the depth chart with a lingering knee problem and Marvin Austin dealing with back issues, the Giants need help. Beyond signing Carlton Powell and Oren Wilson, they’ll take a look on Thursday at veteran defensive tackle Marcus Thomas, according to Josina Anderson of ESPN (via Mike Garafolo of the Newark Star-Ledger).

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:52 am

Cowboys add a TE with lots of family ties to fill in for Witten

The Cowboys are keeping it all in the family, as they scramble for help because of Jason Witten’s lacerated spleen.

According to Todd Archer of ESPNDallas.com, the Cowboys signed tight end Harry Flaherty, and waived/injured guard Bill Nagy.

Flaherty is the nephew of Cowboys coach Jason Garrett and tight ends coach John Garrett. Another uncle, Judd Garrett, is the director of pro scouting. His namesake father played two games for the Cowboys in 1987, and also spent time with the Eagles and in the USFL.

The younger Flaherty, a Princeton product, went to camp with the Saints last year, and worked out for the Cowboys in December, and New England recently.

“It’s pretty interesting,” Flaherty said. “This is my first day here, so it’s definitely going to be an interesting experience, but I’ve been around their coaching a lot through the years.”

The Cowboys were down to two healthy tight ends, James Hanna and Andrew Szczerba, while Witten is expected to miss the rest of the preseason.

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:39 am

Jason Witten Has Lacerated Spleen

"Jason Witten suffered a slightly lacerated spleen in Monday's preseason game, and the star tight end's availability for the regular-season opener is uncertain. Witten suffered a "very serious" small laceration that caused bleeding but it is not ruptured, coach Jason Garrett said Wednesday afternoon.

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:44 am

Forget Jones' Hype, Dallas Has Big Problems Up Front

From Jones' perspective, everything looks fine up front.
“(Right guard) Mackenzy Bernadeau is really looking promising,” Jones said. “(Backup guard) Derrick Dockery is looking better. (Center) Phil Costa is someone that has certainly raised the eyes of (offensive line coach) Bill Callahan.
“So I think that we're better in the interior.”
Amazingly, Jones kept his rose-colored glasses on even after Monday night's 3-0 preseason win over the Raiders.
“Ideally, you'd like to have (scored a touchdown), but the answer is no,” Jones said when asked if he was concerned with the performance of the first-team offense in the preseason opener.
“I really liked what I saw individually from the offensive line. I had a chance to sit with John Madden and watch the offensive line in the second half, and that's his specialty there, where he likes to look, and he saw some of our guys do good.”
With all due respect to Madden, that's a tough sell. Bernadeau is coming off hip and knee surgeries, Dockery is 31 and was out of work until Dallas signed him Aug. 4, and the undersized Costa is easily pushed around.
Then there's backup center David Arkin, who let Oakland's Tommy Kelly burst into the backfield untouched to sack quarterback Tony Romo.
Pretty bleak, isn't it? And we haven't even mentioned that left guard Nate Livings has been out since the third day of camp with a hamstring injury, backup center Bill Nagy faces season-ending ankle surgery, Tyron Smith is playing left tackle for the first time as a pro, and right tackle Doug Free is coming off a disappointing season.
Add it all up, and the odds of Romo remaining healthy seem about as good as the chances of Roger Goodell and Jonathan Vilma hanging out together.

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:49 am

Still No Word On Mike Patterson

"The last we heard from Mike Patterson, he was feeling good, working out and wanted to play... But his doctor just wasn't ready to clear him yet. So far, there's been no change. Speaking to the media as he wrapped up camp at Lehigh, Andy Reid said they've heard nothing new from Patterson's doctor."

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:51 am

Eagles Survive Tough Camp Without Major Losses

"The first goal of training camp is to get better. The second is to stay healthy. The Eagles think they did both this time around. Training camp wrapped up on Tuesday afternoon shortly after 4 p.m., and all things considered, the Eagles are a pretty healthy football team. "Yeah that's always a big goal, every year," Trent Cole said. "It kind of seems like every year, ever since I started in my rookie season, I never come [out] clean. Just being in camp, and minicamp, all the way to the season – I never come out clean. It's just part of football you're going to get dinged up all the time and all you can do is just praise the Lord and hope for the best." Sure, the Eagles had plenty of"

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:54 am

Giants Roster Moves: Powell, Wilson Signings Official

"The New York Giants have now made the signings of defensive tackles Carlton Powell and Oren Wilson official. To make room on the 90-man roster, defensive tackle Martin Parker (herniated disc/back) was waived injured.

Powell played three games for the Atlanta Falcons last season. He is a 6-foot-, 312-pounder. [More on Powell]

Wilson is a 6-foot-1, 305-pound rookie from Akron. He had 38 tackles and 3.5 sacks for Akron last season. The Giants had Wilson in camp for their rookie tryout during the spring, but did not sign him at that time. Wilson began his collegiate career at Michigan State."

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:57 am

NY Giants' Injury-Ravaged Defensive Line Is A Painful Subject As Shaun Rogers Is Lost For Season

"The Giants opened training camp with what looked like the deepest defensive line in the NFL. Now they are closing training camp with a line that has become dangerously thin.

Their line depth took an enormous hit on Tuesday, the final day of camp, when the team announced four significant injuries to defensive linemen. Defensive tackle Shaun Rogers is out for the season after he was diagnosed with a blood clot in his calf. Defensive tackle Marvin Austin was sent for tests on his injured back. Defensive end Justin Trattou will miss several more weeks with a bruised heel and a sprained ankle. And defensive tackle Martin Parker needs surgery to repair a herniated disc in his back.

Those are in addition to defensive tackle Chris Canty, who is on the physically unable to perform list while he recovers from offseason knee surgery."

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:01 am

Canty Has Wait & Knee Attitude

"Throughout the spring, Chris Canty expressed extreme optimism the knee surgery he underwent following the Super Bowl would not keep him out of training camp.

The Giants yesterday broke camp and yet Canty never participated and remains on the Physically Unable to Perform list.

Canty said his knee is better right now than it was in the last few months of last season, when he played through the knee issues.

At this point, though, he sounds unsure if he'll be ready to play by the Sept. 5 regular-season opener against his former team,

tribeofjudah · Post by **tribeofjudah** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:28 pm

I don't mean to be mean but.....

keep em coming.

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 1:56 am

Giants Hope Prince Can Handle Job

"He gets paid to play, not formulate the gameplan, but if safety Antrel Rolle was going to switch sides and attack the Giants defense he knows whom he'd target.

Prince Amukamara.

"As an offensive coordinator, that's probably going to be the angle,'' Rolle said. "He has to understand that, and I'm sure he's aware of that. You have to continue to grow. You have to turn into a man overnight. There's no time for babying, and he understands that. He's going to be fine. I have all the confidence in the world in Prince, and I'm sure he's going to get the job done.''"

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 1:59 am

Giants Seeking Help From Lineman

"In assessing this year's draft, Jerry Reese essentially gave Markus Kuhn two possible nicknames for the veracity and effort with which he plays.

The first – "the Mitch Petrus of defensive tackles" – was humorous, although it failed to resonate the way Reese's "JPP of tight ends" has followed rookie Adrien Robinson.

The second has stuck, making its way to Kuhn's native Germany and back following this assessment from the Giants' general manager: "He is a like a buzz saw in there."

That description of Kuhn has not been lost in translation, considering German fans have embraced his draft-day moniker, he says, by calling him "Kreissage" ever since."

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:02 am

Nnamdi Asomugha Returns To Practice, Then Leaves

"Nnamdi Asomugha was back in practice today, three days after a collision with Nate Allen at Lehigh left him with a sore neck and lacerated lip.

[Note by JasonB, 08/16/12 4:00 PM EDT ] Strike that! Nnamdi left practice shortly after it started. Word is that his neck is still sore.

Other injured Eagles Trent Cole and Brent Celek have returned in recent days as well, so it seems like the beat up Eagles are finally getting healthy. With the hitting portion of camp over, everyone should begin to heal up before the season."

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:09 am

Castoffs, Rejects, Misfits ... D-Line Has 'Em All

"Trent Cole remembers exactly how challenging it was seven years ago. He was the 18th defensive lineman taken in the 2005 draft, and he knew when he joined the Eagles as a rookie fifth-round pick that just going out to practice and being good wasn't enough.

As a late-round pick, he had to be great.

"When you're a fifth-round pick, it's the same as being an undrafted free agent," Cole said. "You've got to really stand out to get noticed. You've got to do more than everybody else is doing. Because if you just do what everyone else is doing, they're not going to keep you.""

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:13 am

McSurdy Out For Season With Torn Achilles

"Linebacker Caleb McSurdy tore his Achilles tendon during Wednesday's afternoon practice, as trainers initially feared, and will undergo season-ending surgery tomorrow in Dallas, coach Jason Garrett said today. McSurdy, a seventh-round pick from Montana, is expected to be placed on the team's injured reserve list.

Coach Jason Garrett said he has yet to speak to McSurdy, who already has made the trip to Dallas. He called it a "tough injury" but one that can be overcome with proper rehabilitation."

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:15 am

Very Serious' Injury Puts Cowboys' Witten Out Of Preseason

"Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten has been pointing to the Sept. 5 opener against the Super Bowl champion New York Giants ever since the NFL released the schedule in April. "The approach we are taking is if we are going to be the team we think we can be we have to go show it," Witten said the second day of training camp. "What a great opportunity we got coming up Sept. 5." But after suffering a lacerated spleen in Monday's 3-0, preseason-opening win at Oakland, Witten's participation in the highly anticipated game is in jeopardy. Speaking at a news conference in Oxnard, Calif., coach Jason Garrett on Wednesday called the injury "very serious" and confirmed the seven-time Pro Bowler"

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:18 am

Matt Johnson Gets In Pads, But Doesn't Do Much Work As Cowboys Continue To Take It Easy With Him

"Rookie safety Matt Johnson finally pulled on the pads for the first time as a Cowboy, but he didn't get much action in the team part of practice.

ohnson said the Cowboys still want to ease him into work as he gets past the hamstring injury he suffered on the last day of the veteran minicamp in June, his only action of the offseason besides the three-day rookie minicamp after the draft.

"They're making sure," he said. "I've missed enough time as it is. They're making sure I don't miss a big chunk of time by pulling it back. It's smart on their part, but obviously I want to get out there.""

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:34 pm

DeMarcus Ware won’t play against Chargers

Add another name to the list of injured Cowboys.

Linebacker DeMarcus Ware won’t be in the lineup when the Cowboys travel to San Diego for a Saturday night game against the Chargers. Calvin Watkins of ESPNDallas.com reports that Ware hurt his hamstring in practice on Thursday and the team has decided to hold him out of the contest as a result.

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:24 pm

New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw left the first quarter of Saturday night's exhibition game against the New York Jets with a hand injury, and X-rays came back negative.

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:03 am

Eagles say Vick has rib contusion

When it comes to disclosing injury information about players at a time when the team has no obligation to do so, the Eagles are as candid as any NFL team.

And far more candid than most teams.

On Tuesday, they applied that candor to their starting quarterback, announcing that both an MRI and a CT scan “revealed no broken bones and no fractured cartilage” for Mike Vick, who was injured Monday night against the Patriots. The team also announced that Vick “has a contusion of his ribs and of the soft tissue area surrounding it.”

1niksder · Post by **1niksder** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 6:06 am

Dez Bryant: 'I'm Going To Play In New York'

"As he walked off the practice field Tuesday afternoon, Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant was greeted with a few questions about his health. The one answer he gave should be assuring to Cowboys fans. When asked will he be ready for the Week 1 game at the New York Giants, Bryant said, "You know I'm going to play in New York, that's without a doubt." Bryant left Monday's practice after suffering a case of patella tendinitis in his right knee. Bryant said he wasn't scared about what an MRI would reveal. Bryant isn't playing in Saturday night's preseason game at Cowboys Stadium and most likely is out for the preseason finale against Miami on August 29."