%$#@! Injuries
 

Now HARTLEY gets hurt! The guy kicks all day during practice... 3 or 4 dozen times during warm-ups and then on the sidelines when we get in the red zone and then he goes out for one chip shot field goal and hurts himself with the kick??!! What's he warming up with, a %$#@! nerf ball??!!

What a buncha ballerinas!

Are you serious he got hurt. Crap I'm running out of words to say....

Yes. After every touchdown in the 2nd half we went for 2 (and made them, once by pass and the other by running up the middle). The broadcast bunch couldn't figure out why and went back and reviewed Hartley's kick in the 1st half and, after the kick, he grabbed his leg like he hurt something. They showed him on the bench still in pads but never returned to the game.

My gosh, I just hope it's not serious enough for the Saints to have to use a roster spot on a second place kicker... (We can all bet John Carney is aware of this situation... lol)

Payton said just a pull.

So far, most of our injuries have all been nicks and dings, nothing really serious to any of our key starters. Franklin may be the only projected starter that might miss 1 or 2 games, and he's not really a starter.

Hopefully our starting 22 don't play at all next week.

Still,, the guy kicks all day! That's all he does. What did he do differently in a game situation that he pulled a muscle doing it?

Can't tell you. It looked pretty routine to me.

lol... thats a great question, Poydras.

I'm 47, and I dont hurt myself kicking anything. Everything else is an injury waiting to happen-- lifting, running, walking down stairs... taking a shower...it all hurts... but kicking?????

cheese!

btw, what kind of doctor are you? can you fix my belly button?

I got a chuckle when they lined-up for 2, I think it was the last time, and when it was mentioned that they were going for 2 again, Al Michaels said, "Well...why not?" Chris Collinsworth follows with, "Or...why?"

You had to be there.

"fix" your belly button? You mean a piercing or like they did with Barbara Eden in "I Dream of Jeannie"?
This is just a "little" off topic. You might want to use a private note for this.

The Saints now have 4 downs to get a first down. I think Brees and Payton can make it work. LOL. And I honestly do have more confidence in the Saints short yardage ability now than in years past. They've done a great job so far this preseason.

It was preseason so you had to figure they were just testing plays the first time but the second time was a head scratcher until they went back and showed the clip of the kick in the 1st half.

I blame the trainers, they should be fired. :)

Reports are his leg flew off and they didnt give us any extra points for it flying through the uprights...although it did manage to knock out a few Rayda fans...it was recovered by the staff and sewn back on last night..he will be fine...

I'm a little older now, but back in the day trainers would give us bananas and help us monitor our electrolytes when we went out west for games...

Apparently the atmospheric changes and the changes in humidity affects athletes more than they realize...

The temperature at kickoff was 69. I don't think electrolytes was the problem, especially for a kicker that doesn't even do kickoffs.

I'm giving Hartley the benefit of the doubt on this one. That field was not the greatest surface to be playing on. I didn't pay attention to the actual kick where he hurt himself, but the baseball dirt was causing people to slip and slide all night, and the grass seemed kind of long and soddy -- you could see it was giving way under people's feet very easily. Not so much affecting the running game, but I definitely saw a couple of receivers on BOTH teams, who had minor trouble with their footing, planting or changing direction, making cuts, it was tearing up.

Like I said, I didn't see the actual kick in question, but especially IF he was kicking from the dirt part of the field, or if he planted his foot and hit a clump of grass that gave way, then an injury in that situation could be perfectly understandable. It is unfortunately part of the game.

It was on the grass portion of the field. Everything seemed completely normal and the kick was good, even though it was kind of a "helicopter ball" but as soon as he kicked it, he grabbed his leg.

Its just bad mojo. It's a medical mystery. It's those Nigerians out in Oakland working up some black magic. Word has it they were severing the heads off live chickens in the parking lot before the game.

They effed up tho. They only got our kicker. :mrgreen:

Saw that report last night Strato, but I din't want to spread any rumors. But, You know, if it's on the internet, it must be true, Right?

:bng:

Ok I am not touching that last comment!! :doh:

shoot no... I like my laundry right out in the open... it popped out one time when I was lifting weights, and you can push it in now, and then I can cough it out. doesnt hurt but it drives me bananas.
I wonder how much it costs to fix that?

off topic indeed.

guys, whats the status on hartley?

Simma down now, simma down. He just got his arse bent out of shape but his boyfriend put it back in last night

gasp! cheremie!

I couldn't pass that one up sorry Mike!

I had looked at the box score ... no wonder we went for 2 so much!

Duct tape, $4 a roll

your duck tape works, John. thanks... im a new man.

Now a days it comes in a variety of colors, even cammo! I have a roll of black at the house so all you have to do is paint a little gold fleur de lis on it and you're all set!:mrgreen:

Yeah, I have heard that going to California can turn people into pussies.

Thursday it was a kicker and the hits just keep coming........something is wrong........seriously wrong!

All the so called experts agree the Lockout has effected all teams...it not just us..we have been fairly lucky to tell you the truth...