Add Shaun Rogers to the List of the Injured
Written By: Scott | Category: Cleveland Browns | Comments: 15
Ryan Tucker, James Davis.
D’Qwell Jackson, Eric Barton.
Dave Zastudil, Steve Heiden.
And now, we can officially add Shaun Rogers. With three minutes left in the game, and the Browns staring at a 1-10 record, the Pro Bowl nose tackle was still playing as hard as he was on the first defensive play of the game. The only difference was that that play wound up with Rogers laying on the ground in pain, to later be carted off of the field with what is being deemed a season-ending ankle injury.
Given what Rogers goes through every Sunday, the look on his face that resulted from the pain spoke loudly. The pain likely turned into frustration after the dust settled. Reports claim that Rogers was placed on (hopefully reinforced) crutches shortly after the loss to Cincinnati, where he sat with his teammates.
“It’s bad to see him on crutches like that,” claimed linebacker David Bowens. ”Baby is one of those players that wants to be in there making plays for us and right now he’s really frustrated — and it’s totally understandable.”
If the ever-growing list above was not enough, other Browns defenders to leave yesterday’s game with injuries included Kenyon Coleman, Kamerion Wimbley and Brodney Pool – suffering what appears to be yet another concussion.
The Plain Dealer reports that Pool may not return at all this season if his injury is severe enough. It would be at least his fourth concussion in his relatively short career, and would further hamper an already weak defensive backfield. Where Pool tends to lead with his head to make plays, others tend to lead with their hands as they merely attempt to slap opposing ball carriers like a poor-man’s Edmond Honda.
The Browns were very fortunate with Josh Cribbs able to return quickly from what could have been a very bad injury to his head. Cribbs, unfortunately, looked disinterested in yesterday’s game. One can only imagine that the motivation that forces these players to jeopardize their body (and/or career) week in and week out is only dissipating with each additional injured player and tally mark in the loss column.
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Sigh.
Wow; that list is full of starters . . . I know every team has injuries, but with a squad as devoid of quality backups as the Browns, this type of body count is devastating.
On the other hand, would we have won more than 1 game by now if all these guys were healthy? I like to think so . . .
Makes you wonder if Jamal Lewis was on to something with his “the coach works us too hard in practice” comments. Granted, Big Baby’s injury was one of those common lineman-gets-leg-rolled-up-on types of things that just happen, but when you look at that list…
Wimbley looked completely gassed yesterday. MoMass looked gassed at the end. Lewis has looked gassed since 2007.
Not sayin’, just sayin’.
@DP: I don’t think Rogers injury has ANYTHING to do with practice habits. That’s just trying to throw more hate on Mangini than necessary. The other guys though, def. looked gassed.
It seems that every year the Browns have like 15 guys in IR when it’s all said and done. Is this common throughout football or is just us whose mostly hit by injuries every freaking year? I’m wondering how long the training staff has been with us. I know they changed strength coaches 2(?) years back, they may need to look to do more injury prevention stuff. I know an assistant strength coach that used to work with the Bengals, when Corey Dillion was there, he said that most those guys never lifted, that’s why they were ALWAYS injured. Terrible team and no effort behind the scenes…Could this be the same issue? During our 10 win year seemingly no one got seriously injured….
I don’t think it’s unusual at all when one of the defensive players gets hurt or looks gassed. I don’t know the numbers but the probability of injury and fatigue has to be pretty high when a unit is on the field as much as the Browns are doesn’t it? Forget practice or personnel, that’s just pure numbers and probabilities.
S-Dub: agreed. That’s why I threw the caveat about Rogers’ injury being a common linemen-type injury. Not hating on Mangini because of Rogers’ injury… just asking the question in reaction to the disgustingly long list of injured starters.
I think that Cribbs should look disinterested until he is sure that he will be on the team next year. Even though that is not exactly a great thing.
Clown Baby: interesting point. I would counter that Lewis’s argument is that the offense can’t get anything done because they’re completely burned out by game day, but that in turn leads in part to their ineffectiveness which then leads to overwork of the defense. I tend to disagree with that aspect of Lewis’s comments (I think the lack of freaking talent has more to do with the offense’s struggles overall than does the practice schedule).
DP –
Yep, I don’t buy Lewis’ excuse either. He may be tired but that is because he’s a dinosaur in terms of NFL RB age. The offense is lacking in scheme, talent and execution (of course the 1st two deficiencies make the 3rd rather moot) and that is why they can’t produce. I guess it’s convenient to blame the coach since Father Time isn’t a realistic target.
“I guess it’s convenient to blame the coach since Father Time isn’t a realistic target.”
Yeah, he’s already got all the blame from the Raiders fans flying his way.
More injury news via the AP:
“Cleveland Browns quarterbacks Brady Quinn and Derek Anderson are both expected to be inactive for Sunday’s game against the San Diego Chargers. Both are suffering from severely bruised egos. Browns head coach Eric Mangini also stated that he expects to be missing for Sunday’s contest at Cleveland Browns Stadium. When asked if he meant that he would ‘miss the game,’ Mangini responded, ‘No, I expect to be missing.’”
The brown pants are not exactly flattering, but look at those Cincy uniforms…. they’re an eye sore so bad it may require surgery.
“One can only imagine that the motivation that forces these players to jeopardize their body (and/or career) week in and week out is only dissipating with each additional injured player and tally mark in the loss column.”
When you say “motivation” do you mean paycheck? So their paycheck is dissipating with every loss? Oh wait, you meant that these guys should only play hard and DO THE JOB THEY ARE GETTING PAID MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR when times are good.
Once again, color me unsympathetic to the overpaid athletes.
Does anyone else remember late last season when an apparently injured Shaun Rogers was layed-out, rolling around on the ground wincing in pain and furiously pounding the turf with his hands, only to return a few plays later with what appeared to be a finger injury? When I saw him just laying there not moving on Sunday, I knew something was wrong.
At this point i’d say our best bet is to throw some pads on Drian Daboll, put him in at nose tackle and hope for a career-ending injury.
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