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Eli Manning was in New York doing tests on his injured noggin, the one that took 12 stitches to close a laceration incurred during last night's game with the Jets. Tom Coughlin would not say whether he'll play against Pittsburgh.
"The nature of the exact tests was not communicated to me," Coughlin said. "I would say this, whatever is available to the doctors in terms of…he’s in New York and he’s going to go through the battery of tests that any player has who experiences any kind of a head injury. They’re not going to leave any stone unturned so they are going to go ahead and do all of the tests, the MRIs, and all of those things and then at that point in time I’m sure they’ll get a hold of me.
"I texted Eli earlier this morning and I think that the normal discomfort that a guy goes through when he has stitches and what have you was the experience. He didn’t talk too much about pain, but I don’t have a whole lot of information because any time you have any injury that is a head injury they’re going to do all kinds of tests so they’re in the process of doing that right now."
“Initially, with Eli being the kind of guy he is, the idea for me going forward was, gee how are we going to make it so that he can practice and play with the stitches?” Coughlin said. “I think that there is naturally concern there from the doctor’s standpoint as well, because just the nature of where the helmet sits according to where the stitches are could create a problem in terms of healing and so I’m sure that that was brought up last night. (team physician) Dr. (Russell) Warren brought that up as well. Again, I’m just waiting to hear all of this information.”
Coughlin said Manning would probably need something to cover the stitches once he does get back into action.
"Initially, with Eli being the kind of guy he is, the idea for me going forward was, gee how are we going to make it so that he can practice and play with the stitches?" Coughlin said. "I think that there is naturally concern there from the doctor’s standpoint as well, because just the nature of where the helmet sits according to where the stitches are could create a problem in terms of healing and so I’m sure that that was brought up last night. (team physician) Dr. (Russell) Warren brought that up as well. Again, I’m just waiting to hear all of this information."
LB Chase Blackburn, meanwhile, suffered a sprained MCL. There will be no surgery, but Coughlin could not commit on a return date. It could be a couple of weeks, at least.
WR Ramses Barden is experiencing lower back issues and the medical staff is now trying to figure out whether it's muscular or structural.
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He's a Manning....get out on field! = )
ReplyDeleteHope the Barden injury isn't serious.
Not in the preseason. He neeedlessly got hurt last night please no repeat performances. I could probably run this vanilla offense in my sleep and havent been an NFL QB for 7 years. Chase will be missed on ST. Still time to fire Quinn.
ReplyDeleteI hope Barden is injured serious because I am sick of him wasting all of our time. Tim Brown and Victor Cruz deserve to be on the team as long as ST still sux and last I checked last night, they do.
Hmmm
ReplyDeleteAgree - Fire Quinn! Yes another near disasterous injury in a meaningless game. They need to cut this preseason crap to 2 games and even those shouldn't involve the starters for more than a drive a piece.
Disagree - Barden is wasting our time? It's his second year! Cruz looks great, but he needs to do more than light up 2nd team practices and preseason games before we annoint him to anything.
Agree ggggmen, the whole post. For all intents and purposes, this is Barden's rookie year. Just like last year was Manningham's hypothetical rookie year. Cut the dude a little slack. Cruz looked awesome, again as gggmen points out, vs. 2nd and 3rd team DBs. I would love for TC to put Cruz out there against the Pitt starting D. That would be a true trial by fire.
ReplyDeleteEli can survive the season without playing in one more preseason game. I do understand the necessity of having multiple preseason games, i.e. evaluating guys like Cruz in live game situations. But, the starters don't really need to play in them that much, except for maybe the rookies up through the 3rd year guys. Everyone else, hold them to maximum two drives. Who cares if you win a preseason game? Oh wait, Rexy-poo does, keeping the starters out there up until halftime.
Countdown to Hard Knocks part 2: 13 hours!!!!
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