Tuesday Notes: Kevin Smith to Have Surgey on Injured Knee
by Sean Yuille on Dec 15, 2009 7:26 AM EST
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- As mentioned in a FanShot, Kevin Smith is out for the season and will have surgery on his injured knee. Smith has "at least a knee ligament injury," but Jim Schwartz cautioned that multiple ligaments could be damaged. The thing is that we won't know for sure until Smith actually has the surgery and doctors can get a better look at it. It is very common for other ligaments to be damaged at the same time as the ACL, so there is definitely a chance that Smith could have injured his MCL or PCL as well. Let's hope it was only his ACL, but Schwartz certainly didn't sound too optimistic on Monday.
- Louis Delmas left Sunday's game fairly early on after re-injuring his ankle. Schwartz didn't discuss just how severe the injury might be, but he didn't sound too concerned, either, saying that he was "encouraged by the tests that have come back." Let's hope the injury isn't anything big and he will be back against Arizona.
- Longsnapper Don Muhlbach left Sunday's game after hurting his arm and also possibly sustaining a concussion. He actually was on a cart on the sideline, and Schwartz officially declared Muhlbach's status as "up in the air." Dominic Raiola did a decent job filling in for Muhlbach, though the snap on one field goal was a bit low. I don't know if the Lions will just have Raiola handle the longsnapping duties if Muhlbach can't play this week or if they will bring someone else in, but you would think with a week of practice Raiola could do a good enough job to take over for Muhlbach for another game.
- Based on what Jim Schwartz said on Monday, I wouldn't expect to see Aaron Brown returning kicks anytime soon unless there is an injury to Derrick Williams.
- Baltimore's Terrell Suggs insinuated that the Lions, specifically Terrelle Smith, went after his injured knee on Sunday.
- An "uncut" video of Matthew Stafford mic'd up during the final moments of the Browns game has been posted on NFL.com.
- Bill Ford Jr. is too busy with Ford to deal with the Lions now-a-days. Specifically, he said that he is "quite out of touch" with what's going on with the Lions.
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Dude...
Did anyone else notice muhlbauch stumble off the field…lol… he was weaving bad. I think it was on a kickoff.
It was bad.
In a funny way…. it looked like he was drunk off his ass.
Ford out of touch??
Another shocking revelation out of Detroit.
I spray paint my dog Honolulu Blue and Silver
Pic - me vs. Bears fans
i dont blame him for this one
The company comes before the sports team, people’s livelihoods are counting on the fact that he does a good job @ Ford Motors, and its not like he played a large role with the Lions anyways
The beginning of the end of the misery
At the Game
I was at the game in Baltimore and let me say it was pathetic. It looked like the players quit on the Coach in the Second Quarter. Leaving Smith in a Game that was over was another stupid move that could cost the guy his career since it is never a given a rb will recover from knee injuries.
All I can say is we seen the same stinking product on the field for the last 5 years. It doesn’t matter what personal is out there the Lions have no heart or care if they win or lose. It was a waste of money to watch that game in person specially in the Cold Wet conditions. 2-14 will be our final record and probably the #1 draft pick again.
going to get crap for this but i want the num 1 pick aghen
with locker staying in school suh woul not fall to #3
Just Remember matt... what would Daunte do??
but i dont think we will get 1st
TB has to win one (i will say 50% of that happoning)
rams will have to win one and beat us in the SOS tie braker (25%)
browns will have to win one OR beat us in SOS (90%)
Just Remember matt... what would Daunte do??
Semi-agree with Fuzzdog
We have seen this crappy product on the field now for 10 years, not 5. We won’t get the #1 this year, TB and St. Louis (whichever one) is going to draft him and Suh will be gone unfortunately. Life sucks.
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by NYCLionsfan on Dec 15, 2009 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
Actually, it looks like TB...
would have to win two…. Right now, they have us by 7 SoS point. That could be made up, but I’m pretty sure they’ve got us.
Yes, TB does...
They have something like 117 opponent wins versus our 110 opponent wins… so they have the tougher schedule, therefore the tie-breaker if we both finish 2-14. It’s not likely that we make up the 7 point differential in three weeks, so most likely they have to win two.
That’s how I figured it. Per usual… I could be wrong.
Ahhh.... I should have said "TB has to win two MORE"
I think that’s where I confused you…. TB would have to go 3-13.
Okay....
then throw everything I said out the window…. :o)
Thinking about it… yeah, that makes more sense. So we are actually closer than I though to legitimately having the #1 or #2? Just one win by every team (STL, TB, CLE). Interesting……
Yes the team with the weaker schedule picks first.
I had been reading that writers were saying that team X was “ahead” of us because their opponents had more wins. That implied to me that the team with the tougher schedule picks first. I agree with Sean that it is actually the team with the weaker schedule who picks first. Thus we are ahead of Cleveland. According to some strength of schedule data I have seen, our opponents have won 50% of their games.
Browns 55%, Bucs 56%, and Rams 57%. With only three games left, I don’t think that they could catch us. We should win the tie breaker in a head to head against those three teams.
NOTE: I would much rather be talking about how we are ahead on all the PLAYOFF tie breakers.
by NorthLeft12 on Dec 16, 2009 10:48 AM EST up reply actions
i hope this works out for us....
can anyone link a NFL draft projection site.
for draft order, not picks.
google it. There are a bunch of them.
Walterfootball.com has a draft order with a strength of schedule link.
Ford
Fords have always been out of touch and I think suh will go number 1 to tampa but if we could get him he could be the haynesworth of schwartz defense
I Nominate Culpepper.
1. We don’t pay him alot.
2. He’s not under contract after this year.
3. He FU@%ING SUCKS!!!
4. Start Stanton, with Stafford as his #2 next week.
Culpepper Contract
I thought Culpepper reworked his contract in to a 2 year deal this spring, maybe wrong but thats what i thought. Does anyone know?
as far as i know...
it was a 1 year backloaded with alot of incentives. i may be wrong though, i’m to lazy to try and find it. but it seems to me like this is why culpepper blew up on thanksgiving.
and maybe why he got the start last week and possibly this week. he called bullshit on mayhew and the deal they sold him.
Well even with game time he's our a lot of $$$$$$$
Since he sucks. I don’t know too many teams who want to sign a QB who will consistently give them QB ratings of 30.
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by NYCLionsfan on Dec 16, 2009 10:51 AM EST up reply actions
it was a lot of incentives, based on performance...
playing time and if I remember right, Starts played into it….
But pretty much Daunte needed to play 4 games to make over the base salary.
Could this be the worse year for injuries?
It seems as if everyone has been injured at some point.
2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).
Zack Follett: he will hurt your mind.
I second that H.E.
It’s been incredible. We’ve had more injuries than a commuter train collision.
GO LIONS! RESTORE THE ROAR!
The Final Lion Destonation
The Script…
The Lions bus was supposed to be in a less than Major Crash. It wasn’t, now the players are succuming to season ending injuries.
I Smell a BlockBuster!!!
by j16941 on Dec 15, 2009 8:43 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Yeah has of Wednesday Morning
Our IR list is the longest at 16 players, Minnesota has just 1 player on theirs.
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