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kcsaints 12-14-2012 03:06 PM

Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
Posted by Michael David Smith on December 14, 2012, 3:59 PM EST
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Saints tight end Jimmy Graham revealed today that he has been dealing with a wrist injury for the entire season — surprising news because Graham hasn’t been listed on the injury report.

The Saints haven’t explained why they weren’t listing him, but they could hear from the league office about it, if the league believes the team didn’t properly follow the injury reporting procedures. The NFL’s injury policy states, “All players with significant or noteworthy injuries must be listed on the report, even if the player takes all the reps in practice, and even if the team is certain that he will play in the upcoming game. This is especially true of key players.”

Graham suggested that he’s been trying to hide the injury from opposing teams, saying that after taping up his injured wrist he would then tape up his non-injured wrist in the same way, so that it wouldn’t be clear that he had a problem.

“It has been pretty bad since preseason,” Graham said, via the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “But I’m not the only one dealing with issues and dealing with injuries. I played through a lot of stuff and unfortunately, I’ve played every game this season pretty banged up but so has everyone else in this locker room.”

Graham has missed one game this season, with an ankle injury. His numbers have been solid (64 catches for 710 yards and eight touchdowns), but still down from last season, when he had 99 catches for 1,310 yards and 11 touchdowns. Graham said he doesn’t know if he would have played better were it not for the wrist injury.

“Catches and blocking has been painful this year but that’s everybody,” Graham said. “Everybody on this team has had some issues and is having issues. I can’t use that as a crutch. I’m out there on Sunday’s and I’ve got to produce.”

Saints coach Joe Vitt said he was impressed with the way Graham has played through the pain.

“I think it’s been ongoing all season,” Vitt said. “But I think Jimmy has done a real good job of working through his nicks.”

We’ll see whether the NFL thinks the Saints have done a real good job of filling out their injury reports.

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Mardigras9 12-14-2012 03:09 PM

Re: Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
Explains the T-Rex thing he has had going.

Rugby Saint II 12-14-2012 03:15 PM

Re: Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
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Originally Posted by Mardigras9 (Post 465275)
Explains the T-Rex thing he has had going.

That is so freaking funny! ROFLMAO
Edit: I will never look at Graham the same.

UK_WhoDat 12-14-2012 03:49 PM

Re: Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
Now we have Injury-gate. d'oh!

Budsdrinker 12-14-2012 04:14 PM

Re: Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
yeah that's going to cost us.

CharityMike 12-14-2012 04:20 PM

Re: Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
WTF?? Why can't our coach's just do wtf they are suppose to do. Like we haven't had enough grief this season. One more stupid thing to add to the pile. Really..disclosing a wrist injury would make that much of a difference? Effin clowns!!

SmashMouth 12-14-2012 04:28 PM

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:bang:

RaginCajun83 12-14-2012 04:29 PM

Re: Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
Make it stop .....

WhoDat!656 12-14-2012 04:33 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mardigras9 (Post 465275)
Explains the T-Rex thing he has had going.

I never saw Graham do this!!

Danno 12-14-2012 04:52 PM

Re: Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
I think we'll hear the same thing shortly about Brees, Greer, Jenkins, Bushrod, Devery and PT.

SmashMouth 12-14-2012 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Danno (Post 465296)
I think we'll hear the same thing shortly about Brees, Greer, Jenkins, Bushrod, Devery and PT.

You are probably right... Brees does seem to show much less accuracy then before on the long ones, underthrowing quite a bit.

RaginCajun83 12-14-2012 05:42 PM

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Every team has players playing with injury all season long, imo its a crutch to take away some accountability for the drop off in production this year

Danno 12-14-2012 05:52 PM

Re: Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
Gee, think this might help in contract negotiations next year?

He didn't really drop all those balls, he was hurt.

bobdog86 12-14-2012 08:23 PM

Re: Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
WTF? And Big Joe has the balls to comment about it w/out any documentation on the weekly injury reports? Are we that Fu----g stupid? I mean really? Ya think big Rog is waiting for this one????? He's gonna have a field day with this.............Ya just can't fix stupid.

saintfan 12-14-2012 09:51 PM

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Roger is likely to ban the team doctor for this.

AlaskaSaints 12-15-2012 03:59 AM

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SUCKAS
LOL


Alaska

alleycat_126 12-15-2012 09:23 AM

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WOW, injurygate a way to castrate us next season to..... We played 2012 with one are tied behind our backs...... I guess in 2013 they'll force us to have our shoelaces tied together all season!!!!

alleycat_126 12-15-2012 09:24 AM

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It's your fault Jimmy!!!! Stop dunking it on the goal post, that post is not very forgiving, DO LIKE LANCE GO FOR THE LAYUP!!!!

ChrisXVI 12-15-2012 09:35 AM

Re: Jimmy Graham has had an unreported wrist injury all season
 
Makes sense to me. If the guy's wrist is hurting him that bad then I think it definitely explains the drops. Also, I don't blame him for hiding the injury... Player's want to play and I'd much rather have had a less-productive Jimmy this season then have seen him put on IR at the start of the season. Couple more games to go and he'll get it fixed in the offseason and be more of a stud than ever!

Rugby Saint II 12-15-2012 10:07 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Danno (Post 465296)
I think we'll hear the same thing shortly about Brees, Greer, Jenkins, Bushrod, Devery and PT.

They all have a wrist injury? :wink:

CharityMike 12-15-2012 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ChrisXVI (Post 465367)
Makes sense to me. If the guy's wrist is hurting him that bad then I think it definitely explains the drops. Also, I don't blame him for hiding the injury... Player's want to play and I'd much rather have had a less-productive Jimmy this season then have seen him put on IR at the start of the season. Couple more games to go and he'll get it fixed in the offseason and be more of a stud than ever!

This doesnt have anything to do with wanting to play. The rules are simple. A player has an injury, you put it on the report period end of story. Why is that so flipping hard? Teams have already gotten in trouble this season for this. Just because he is injured, does not mean he can't play.

Just another example of our management and coach's being defiant but I am sure the coach's will claim they didn't know anything about it. :rolleyes:

FinSaint 12-15-2012 11:18 AM

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If the wrist injury is the reason why he has been dropping so many passes and why he hasn't been producing on the field in general... then I think they should've removed him from the active roster and dealt with the injury, so that he could've had it fixed and he would've been able to return as a much more effective player. Sproles had his hand injury dealth with and fixed, and he ended up missing minimal time because of it.

There's no question that the team should've put him on the injury report, because that is the rule, so I'm not even debating that.

SaintsBro 12-16-2012 07:51 AM

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Yeah this is just stupid, and that's squarely on Vitt and the coaches. I don't understand why the Saints don't do like Bellichick, and list 2/3 of the roster on the injury report each week, Brady questionable, Welker Probable, Gronk Doubtful, they list every player with a hangnail or shaving cut or mosquito bite as "questionable" and THAT would show the world how stupid and useless the NFL injury report really is these days.

They are gonna hammer us on this, no question. Watch them blow this up into a huge scandal, just watch. They already pissed the league off when they did this with Drew a couple years ago. Playing with a leg brace and not on the injury list? Come on, man (rolls eyes)

HOWEVER the flipside is that, if you list Jimmy Graham on the injury report with a wrist, teams are gonna TARGET that wrist, and really go after it....and in one hit or play you could make a relatively mild injury that he can play through, into a more serious, IR-worthy one that ends his year. There's two sides to this. You can already see this happening, already: Jimmy has had the history of back problems, you can already see teams target him with hits on his back, aim the helmet at it, or try and spear him while he's in the air and stuff -- that's not an accident, that's because they KNOW about his back. If they knew about his wrist, it could make it much, much worse.

UK_WhoDat 12-16-2012 08:33 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II (Post 465371)
They all have a wrist injury? :wink:

Uh-oh!
Maybe they were all.. erm... debating the Panthers cheerleaders dsimissed for their..erm...discretions?
Quote:

Originally Posted by SaintsBro (Post 465444)
Yeah this is just stupid, and that's squarely on Vitt and the coaches. I don't understand why the Saints don't do like Bellichick, and list 2/3 of the roster on the injury report each week, Brady questionable, Welker Probable, Gronk Doubtful, they list every player with a hangnail or shaving cut or mosquito bite as "questionable" and THAT would show the world how stupid and useless the NFL injury report really is these days.....

Yep!


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