The Indianapolis Colts have decided to shelve their starting TE Dallas Clark for the remainder of the 2010-11 season by placing him on IR. The TE, who suffered a wrist injury in last weeks game against Washington, had been attempting to seek other opinions but found no different answers outside of surgery.
In a statement released by the team, Clark stated "It's unfortunate, but it's been confirmed that surgery is necessary to repair the injury to my wrist. I have met with three great surgeons.... All three have helped me and my family out tremendously during this process." Clark finishes the year with 37rec., 347yds. and 3td and will be replaced by third-year TE Jacob Tamme.
I have been to West Virginia a few times and I find the state to be pretty interesting. The farmers markets and bridges and things make for great pictures and are full of pretty neat people. Now I haven't lived there and maybe thats why I don't understand when I ask people what they do for fun and they tell me "there are really only two things to do in WV...have sex and drink!" Two years removed from West Virginia University, Indianapolis Colts Punter Pat McAfee has taken that same attitude to Indianapolis and seems to be fitting in well with the team that has had three players arrested for alcohol related matters in the past year, with McAfee being the latest.
McAfee decided last night that he would hang out and have a good time in the downtown area and it seems to have got the best of him when the party ended around 5 a.m. as local police arrested McAfee for public intoxication after he allegedly took a swim in a local canal. After receiving a call from a person that was alarmed when McAfee drunkenly approached their vehicle at a red light police finally located McAfee. When they say kids say the darndest things, that also should apply to drunk people as well. When police arrived at the scene and asked McAfee how much he had to drink, he answered scholarly "A lot cause I am drunk!". Further questioned in reference to how he got wet , the topless McAfee couldn't provide a clear answer but with slurred speech and watery eyes he stated that he got wet because it was raining. The officers told him that his shirt was in the canal and McAfee stuck to his guns and his story that he wasn't sure if he went swimming in the canal or not. With that sign of not knowing if he had been or not McAfee was arrested for public intoxication.
The Colts Head Coach Jim Caldwell said earlier this afternoon "Certainly not pleased......Very disappointed in what happened." Shortly after, Caldwell and the team issued the news reference the discipline of the one game suspension after the bye week.
Eagles QB Michael Vick has finally broke the silence on his chest and rib injury that has sidelined him for the past two weeks. Appearing on the Tony Mercurio show Vick stated that he is "taking his time to heal" and he does not foresee playing this week when Philadelphia takes on Tennessee. Said Vick, "I met with the doctors this morning and the movement and mobility in my upper chest is still not there. We've just got to take our time and re-evaluate the situation and make sure we do what's best for the team. I think it doesn't make sense to try to rush back and play and be hurting. The team has really jelled right now . . . There's no reason to just break that up. We have a bye next week, which makes it even better."
Remembering the way that Vick was hit, it doesn't take a doctor to understand the brevity of the situation. The hit that Vick endured was one that he has taken hundreds of times in his football career with the difference being that he was hit from both sides at the same time. The simultaneous hit did not allow the torque of the hits to spread out from left to right or vice versa, instead it compressed causing the unique injury that it did. Vick will be reevaluated next week and again when the team returns back to practice after the bye and then a decision will be made by Coach Andy Reid as to whether Vick or Kolb will start when they host Peyton Manning and the Colts on November 7, 2010.
