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Speculating on Palmer's injury

"Did the MRI show anything scary?''

Palmer: "I'm not going to comment on everything.''

"Do you think it's long term?"

Palmer, after a pause: "I hope not.''

There's growing concern that Palmer's injury is much more serious than we're being led to believe. The above quote by a recent Paul Daugherty piece included, there's a thought that one has many speculating. The Bengals went into Sunday at 0-3, living off a shoe-string tackle of reversing the season and obtaining some positive momentum from it with the Cowboys, Jets and Steelers upcoming. Palmer has historically had career games against the Browns. And it's the battle of Ohio.

So what would keep him from playing, even though he practiced Wednesday and Thursday of last week?

Well, the rumor going around is an injury so severe that he may require Tommy John surgery; Jake Delhomme had the procedure last season and recovered in time for the season opener. We're not suggesting that Palmer's injury is serious, just writing the speculation that's going around; after all we're not rumor mongers -- then again, do you expect us to keep talking about the crap we're seeing on the field?

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Carson said he’s playing at Dallas. Of course, he said he was playing yesterday as well. Last night, Lap said that there wasn’t any tendon/ligament damage, that it was entirely muscular in nature. Said Carson hit his elbow on a Giant’s helmet in the middle of his throwing motion last week- remember the ball popping up into the air?- and has been having tingling and numbness in his fingers and wrist, similar to what Brett Favre played through for a couple weeks last year. I’ve hit my elbow hard enough that I had tingling for about a week and I wasn’t going through repeated throwing motions the whole time. Really, sounds like a ginormous tweaking of the funny bone.

However, should the above be wrong, he sits rest of the year in his brother’s jersey, while Jordan, sporting #9 runs the team. We go for the ignominious- is that even a word?- 0-16 mark to at least achieve something this year, then draft Rey Malauga, Wisonsin’s Matt Shaugnessy, and Michigan State’s Javon Ringer in rounds 1, 2, & 3, respectively. Then, we give Chris Henry one of those golden parachute contracts like the Packers offered Favre to stay retired. In return, he kills the entire Brown family in a carjacking gone wrong, which, because my last name is Brown, somehow results in me being the new owner, at which point I steal Scott Paoli(sp?) from the Pats to be GM, stand back, and watch him work.

by IgnatiusJReilly on Sep 29, 2008 6:06 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

this season is a waste exercise

if palmer needs surgery, he should have it. chad should too. that o-line resembles the one that used to protect klinger. protected him right into not playing in the nfl.

by palewook on Sep 30, 2008 10:32 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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