Saints Linebackers Suffer Injuries and a Suspention
 

Beyond Chris Chamberlain's season-ending injury, New Orleans Saints MLB Curtis Lofton and WLB David Hawthorne both suffered injuries in the Saints preseason loss to the Jaguars on Friday night.
Vitt also announced that Ramon Humber, brought in as a backup linebacker and slated as Lofton's replacement was suspended for failing a drug test.
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On the prognosis of both Lofton and Hawthorn, Vitt said today:
Linebacker David Hawthorne:
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Man... Nobody ever tells us anything during the games. I never had a clue anything was wrong until today. I vote for the starters not to take another snap this preseason. This is just dumb at this point.

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not surprising... Maybe they will be there in the reg season and maybe not. Who knows.

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I hope our offense can score 75 points a game because or defense aint stopping ****. We seriously have no LBers worth a damn left. One of you guys who knows more about LB's around the league tell me who is out there that could possibly get cut is worth picking up.

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The Bills released Shawn Merriman today. But we'd be better off bringing Ricky Jackson back than picking this guy up right now.

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Vitt's saying Lofton and Hawthorn will return by opening day.
Chamberlain's injury is unfortunate.
Don't know anything about Humber.

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And who do you replace? The only player we lost was Chamberlain.

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Yeah, I think we might see the Saints bring in a cheap vet just in case these guys have problems recovering, but that's about it.

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We picked up Humber off the street last year.

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Lofton will not play opening day nor will Hawthorne, 6 to 8 weeks is the normal recovery time for a high ankle sprain so I would be happy to see Lofton by week 4. Hawthorne will end up missing 4 weeks and be back for week 2 hopefully. I would be shocked if we had both for opening day. We will need to move Wilson back to LB, and should look at bringing is Shawn Merriman or Joey Porter.

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Agree with others in another thread, for all the poor tackling in the Jags game it appears the team, especially the defense, was gassed coming into that game. They flew to the HOF game, left that night with layover headed strait to Connecticut to practice with Pats. Half week of one-on-ones with the Pats then a Preseason game, they fly back to NOLA on a short week and play the Jags on Friday.

Including prep for HOF game, that puts them going straight since about the end of July. Today is the 20th of August.

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Chamberlain for one.

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But.....
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You know how the Saints are. Vitt is no different than SP and he will keep the injury concerns to himself. Anyone remember how many times we heard P.Thomas was going to come back in 2010? Doubt either of them plays week 1.

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Jesus, where is Jo-lonn Dunbar when you need him, for a backup he was better than vilma

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Just a couple of days ago I thought we looked pretty good at LB'er.

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A high ankle sprain can be a season-long injury that nags Lofton... He may be able to play come week 1 but will he be 100%?

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You can play on a bum ankle. Tommy Meyers had a high ankle sprain for about twelve years.

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We still have Casillas. IF he can stay healthy....

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What about this dude.... Shawne Merriman released by Bills after one season - NFL.com

We're also top heavy at skill positions if we ever decide to make a trade.

I also think if Merriman will take a paycut he's worth giving another look. Article says he been injured up to 10 games a year since '07. He's not worth 10 mill a year which is probably why the bills cut him.
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I started a thread on Merriman earlier today before all this crap came out and it got deleted.

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We don't delete threads without some explaination.
I see the thread in the NFL forum http://blackandgold.com/nfl/48556-bi...-merriman.html
Sure you didn't start it there?
If they moved it they probably felt it not all Saints related. We have been having to move a LOT of threads lately, especially the Falcon related ones...

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Oh my bad. I don't ever go over there. I should start looking there.

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No biggie. You should check out the NFL forum.
Might be time to move your thread back here though. It's a valid question for sure.

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We need a flexibility coach. Every year the same shat; different position.

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i'm not seeing loftons ankle a biggie, he played on it guys, never excusing himself is a solid as i've see vilma play with injury. a tad slower but there leadership is as fast as any backer. lofton's not worried = i'm not either. picking up a backer now before there's none to get is loomis working it again. his magic i believe in.

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Ankle sprain, 6-8 weeks for a regular human being, 1-3 weeks for a NFL player with a professional training staff behind him. I am not worried at all about that, not Hawthornes knee either.

And pleas lets stay away from Merriman, he is just downright horrible. I rather just see us pick up any scrub from the street.

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Remember colston came back from a dislocated shoulder in 3 weeks due to the hyperbaric air chamber thing, hope lofton and hawthorne are using it

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A high ankle sprain can ruin your season, just ask Pierre Thomas.

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Thats what I mean. Those guys are so far ahead in rehab than what you and me could do.