Marvin Lewis: It Will Be A Couple Weeks Before Brian Leonard Is Back to Healthy

by Josh Kirkendall on Aug 11, 2010 2:43 PM EDT in Injury

During Wednesday's press conference -- which will obviously be posted, commented and replied upon because of Andre Smith -- Marvin Lewis reiterated a previous Geoff Hobson hint that Brian Leonard's injury is far more optimistic than what was led to believe.

“Brian has an injured foot and it will be a couple weeks before he’s back to healthy. When it heals he’ll back here ready to go. I can’t look into the future and go beyond that. Right now his foot is injured. There’s nothing that says he would be out for the year or on IR so we’ll go from there.”

As of now, if you read through the Lewisenese, he says that basically Leonard's injury isn't season-ending, but they're still not sure. Within a few weeks, they'll evaluate again and determine if he's ready to go. Either way, if he's not placed on IR, Leonard will have to use a roster spot, whether he's ready to play or not. As some of you know, he can't go on the Physically Unable to Perform list. Unlike the idiocracy of actually having Antonio Bryant practice pointlessly making him ineligible for the PUP that would have freed up a roster spot through the first six games in the regular season instead forcing the team to wonder if they should put him on IR or outright release him, Leonard suffered his injury during the game, but had practiced beforehand.

But after hearing Andre Smith being ripped by the head coach, if your Leonard, your ass won't just be healthy in a couple of weeks, you're going to be in the best shape of your career.

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You can never trust Marvin's word on season ending injuries or injuries in general..

He throws a bunch of fluff out there to stop people from panicking…See Marvin’s comments in the 2008 about Carson’s elbow.. Typical Marvin about anything is talking a whole lot without actually saying anything..

by JamesShively on Aug 11, 2010 2:57 PM EDT reply actions

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I see your point, but that’s not really a good example. He kept Palmer out there simply to keep opposing teams off balance. Should they prep for Palmer, or Crazy Legs? That actually made sense to me.

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by Josh Kirkendall on Aug 11, 2010 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions

it’s no different from what any coach in the nfl does every week. no coach is honest about injuries because they see it as giving the opponent an advantage.

i'm going to go america all over your ass!

by Raging Clue on Aug 12, 2010 1:13 AM EDT up reply actions

In my opinion

I don’t think Leonard, a man known for giving everything possible for a couple of yards, is the type of personality that needs extra incentive to get healthy or do his best.

by SnapCount80 on Aug 11, 2010 3:29 PM EDT reply actions

How many of you guys remember that IR used to not be the whole season? I actually didn’t remember it until I was reminded of that when rewatching an old game where the topic came up.

I think this is something that needs to be revisited. I say the reserve/PUP system should be extended, and that in general any player can go on reserve/PUP at any time during the regular season to be out for 6 weeks, regardless of when they practiced or didn’t. I’d make only one exception — any player who could not be proven via MRI or the like to be currently injured may not be put on PUP inside of three full weeks before or after cutdown day.

by FriarBob on Aug 11, 2010 6:40 PM EDT reply actions