Sam Baker, Laurent Robinson Already In Doubt For Week 4
by Dave Choate on Sep 23, 2008 6:00 AM EDT
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PrintI know that injury news isn't the most cheerful way to start your Tuesday, but I am nothing if not a cold, heartless automaton.
Unfortunately, the news concerns two of our more promising young players. Sam Baker was held out of film sessions with flu-like symptoms, which may or may not be related to his concussion. Baker, as you'll recall, has not managed to finish out the last two games with various injuries and maladies. That's not good news for a rookie, and if he's still feeling weird and out of it the team is likely to mark him down as questionable mid-week. With a tough matchup against Carolina coming up, the Falcons could really use a healthy Baker to anchor the left side of the line.
The other, slightly less critical injury is to Falcoholic sleeper Laurent Robinson. Robinson seems to have a knee sprain, which would likely keep him out the game entirely this coming weekend. That would leave Roddy White and the amazing Michael Jenkins to carry the Falcons' receivers next week, especially given that our tight ends remain incredibly weak targets for Matt Ryan. The upshot is that Harry Douglas may get some more opportunities, and I'd be more than happy to see what he could do.
Thoughts on these unfortunate injuries?
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Baker
would probably be OK to go Sunday if it’s just a flu bug, wouldn’t he? Believe that’s also what was bothering him during the KC game.
Does Robinson’s injury mean that every fan’s favorite, Adam Jennings, may see playing time at WR Sunday? DOWN, you goosebumps!
"There's no such word as 'quit' in swamp buggy racing, Marigold"
I think
The concern with Baker is more that those symptoms could be from his concussion, in which case the guy should be taking it easy. Maybe I like to coddle rookies too much, but I wouldn’t want to put Baker back out there to get messed up even further if that’s the case.
by Dave Choate on Sep 23, 2008 11:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Jennings
I was flipping through channels the other day at my girlfriends house and came across the increadibly cheezy, yet irresistble movie Invincible staring the one and only Marky Mark Whalburg and it gave me a crazy thought! Open tryouts for the Atlanta Falcons punt returner. Because in all of Atlanta (the 9th largest city in the U.S.A with a population of 5,278,904) there has to be SOMEBODY who can return a punt without dropping it.
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.
-Bo Jackson
by Pregame with Pabst on Sep 23, 2008 4:15 PM EDT reply actions
Yesterday I really had to turn up the heat (so to speak) on the AFMB
and get an affirmative statement posted.
Plain and simple is that T-Rex got a concussion in Tampa.
Who knows why he was allowed to play against KC, but something
just tells me that he is a young and fiery guy and probably convinced the Coaches that he was good to go.
Sam’s illness is more of a tell tale of post concussion.
I hate to say it but T-Rex needs to take at least a week off to recover.
Concussions are not to be taken lightly.
I want Baker playing for us for at least a Decade.
But it is shaping up for him to miss this week and that is ok.
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