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Here's what Rob had to say about the loss of Byrd: Rob Ryan on losing Jairus Byrd for the season

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And the hits, they just keep coming.... :/

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This could be a blessing in disguise.

Marcus Ball is on the mend as well.

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Champ Was willing to play safety.....hmmmm

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Champ is done. He was working out for Detroit and they didn't sign him.

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Byrd injury sucks.

A lot of posters have mentioned Marcus Ball's name but my bigger question is if he's healthy? I don't think he has been active in any games thus far.

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Ball has been practicing this week, so I guess he is :confused:

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Usually it's a 6 to 8 week thing...
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...1214614AAYk6Hq

But sounds like Byrd was injured in the Pro Bowl and it was an "undisclosed injury."
Jairus Byrd leaves 2014 Pro Bowl early with injury - Buffalo Rumblings

Sounds like he don't play unless he's "100%"
Jairus Byrd won’t play unless he feels 100 percent | ProFootballTalk

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Maybe he doesn't want to stink it up in front his dad on Sunday in the Superdome?
http://blackandgold.com/saints/68554...es-sunday.html

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Im still going to watch and yell for my team but this hurts. Regardless of how he has looked he still is one of the best safeties in the n.f.l. I just thought eventually we would get the D together. It could've just been a matter of chemistry and him getting use to the system.

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That's a whole nother injury and I have no idea how serious his foot injury was...

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Plantar Fasciitis.
Top Buffalo Bills safety Jairus Byrd battling plantar fasciitis - ESPN

Read the comments on the ESPN article from Bills fans:

John Zendano
"plantar fasciitis= Flat Feet ---- Did not know that Flat Feet would be such an issue. I thought that players learn how to play with pain? Well if I was guaranteed millions to wait for my flat feet to recover I would relax."

Cody White
"It seems odd that suddenly after he signs his franchise tender that he develops a foot issue. I really hope he's not trying to burn us here."....

Among other comments (I'm starting to feel nauseous) :bang2:

:rolleyes:

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Not just flat feet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_fasciitis

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Yeah believe it or not, I think we might be better with him hurt. After all, he did not learn much with us due to back surgery. And he probably would have clicked later on in the season. Maybe now we get back to basics with our defense and tackle and force stops again.

Our offense though is under more pressure to not make mistakes now.

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Yeah, reading a diagnosis on ESPN from a Bills fan was probably not worth believing. :)

I just thought I could dust up another frenzy of overreaction :p

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I'm not going to pretend I know anything about meniscus injuries but they referred to this one as a "bucket handle tear." I did a google search and I still don't know much more than before but I did learn that the bucket handle tear is bad for two reasons, one it's a very big tear on the meniscus and two, often times there's inadequate blood flow for the tendon to heal properly.

I've read rehab times vary from 6 weeks to 6 months depending on the person and the damage.

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So, we have to pay Byrd even though he may never play another game for us? Wow! Then what insurance do teams have that players won't fake an injury? Apparently, some injuries are only diagnose-able by reporting of symptoms.

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That's an age old problem. Teams have doctors to try to diagnose problems but you're right, some problems like lower back pain, whiplash and foot pain, many times, don't show signs of damage.

The Portland Trailblazers said privately for years that Bill Walton was faking his foot injuries.

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That's the spirit...Let's just give up.

WTH?

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Let's see how does it go "a byrd in the hand is better than two in the bush" well it looks like us Who Dats are re-writing that phrase!
Looks like Bush is coming out of the bush this Sunday !

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Plantar fasciitis ain't no joke; it is hard to run and sometimes hard to walk. I got it in both feet and I ain't got flat feet. I just ran a whole bunch over 2 decades.

And we were getting ready to see what Sunseri could do. So here's your chance, kid.

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With Byrd going down who comes up on the 53 man roster?

Also, after some though, letting SJB take over at CB for White may not be a bad idea. White could slide in and play the nickle role and SJB would get his shot to prove it.

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They have injury clauses in all contracts to protect teams from just that. He will still get paid something, but it won't be 54 mil.

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Worst post of the season, and nothing else is close.


http://gifs.gifbin.com/052011/130686...the_window.gif

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wha hoooooo thank god we got a whole bunch of safeties on the team

this suxs!

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That might explain the bad angles, playing 25-35 yrds. off. Byrd is excellent when healthy. If Bush is going to start we still need a back-up and I hope it's Warren, he played great when he was on the field, now with that said the way KV has been lately I wouldn't mind Sunseri getting a shot at some of his reps.The reason I say this during pre-season those 2 played lights out and if they are the one's( no pun intended) to give us that missing spark I'm all for it. It's all about chemisty between players basically reading each others minds, those 2 have chemisty.

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If we can't beat the Bucs, the division is pretty much out of reach... 2 games back to the Falcons will be hard to make up

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What a flipp'n joke.

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It's not waking up this Sunday that bothers me. Its waking up every Sunday & Monday & Thursday after that after that. That's what they need to do.

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See below...

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I'm going to say it.....yeah, I'm going to say it......

We're better off without him.

I'm dead serious. I think we'll be better off.

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We have yet to play Green Bay, San Fran, Cincinnati, who will destroy our defense worse than Dallas did, and a Ravens team that is surging currently through the play of Steve Smith who has been a Saint killer for years and looks to not have lost anything. The Bears in Chicago in December is a very unlikely win as well. That's not counting the games in our division. I really don't see us winning any of these games the way our defense is playing. Our offense is not the same offense we have had in the past and won't be able to keep up with teams putting up double digit points on our defense.
We are screwed. Our record doesn't matter, we look like crap. Worse than crap, we are a staght up awful football team. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if we lose to Tampa this weekend.

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He didn't just come here and all of a sudden start to suck. He is a 3 time pro bowler. He has had to make up for ****ty tackling by linebackers and an offensive line that can't pressure worth a crap. You could put the best safeties and corners in the league back there and they would all look like crap as long as we are losing up front. A good front line can make up for crappy DB play, not the other way around.
If we get better it won't be because we don't have him.

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You should know by now that our opponent does not matter. We play ourselves every week. If we play Saints football we win 100% of the time.

Green Bay looks soft, if you are impressed with their win over the vikings in their house and when they had the third string QB in...

49ers look like **** this season on both sides of the ball.

Cinci looks good but we get them at home along with the 2 teams mentioned above.

Baltimore looks average at best and once again we get them at home.


My point is we could play the Hawks 16 games in a row and if we play Saints football we win 16 games. The only team that can beat the Saints are the Saints.

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If the Saints play this Sunday like we know they can and use all that talent to its best ability then we will be fine.

If we don't! . . . . . . . . . . . . . Well you all know the what the outcome will be!!!!

GEAUX SAINTS!!!!

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I'm just glad the Saints are as deep at safety as they are.

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Jarius Byrd jump to the NFC South from the AFC East was a huge jump in WR and QB talent from anything he has faced before. He would never put up those numbers in almost any other division in football. for various reason too.

Still believe the early success of the multiple safeties system is what is killing us today. way to much effort and money has been spent in the past two years to upgrade the safety position that to be honest were ok but not that bad.

We need a corner to step up now or address that issue early in the off season next year. that is the only way i can see this system working out. 2 solid shut down type CB.

So the drop in CB quality on this saints team when he signed has hurt Byrds playing style just as much as quality of players he is facing every Sunday.

saints can in no way can match the quality of CB that Byrd has played with in Buffalo since entering the NFL. same could be said for the LBers to a point. Buffallo not having a defense has never really been their issue.

So you maybe right. the saints maybe better off but in no way do i put the blame on him. i rest the blame on the quality of DBs and LBs he has to adjust too. the quality of players he is facing. As well as this funky system Rob is trying to put in place here.

next years draft CBs and LBs early and often.

With that said I still like the move but that contract????