Injury Round-Up: Week 7

aaprigs311 · Post #1 » by **aaprigs311** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:55 pm

I was debating whether to just add to DB's injury thread, but since there are so many guys banged up I figured I could monitor and update various injury notes that I've read. If you want to sticky this MD, I'll continue to update it week to week. Nevertheless, here's the round up for week 7 against the Colts.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
McCarthy's Wednesday media conference
Coach Mike McCarthy will address the media shortly. As usual, we'll have all the injury updates and other newsworthy items as they come. Refresh for the latest.

* First, the injury report. Did not participate: S Atari Bigby (hamstring), DE Jason Hunter (hamstring), CB Pat Lee (back), DE Michael Montgomery (ankle), DT Ryan Pickett (tricep), CB Charles Woodson (toe). Limited: LT Chad Clifton (hamstring), CB Al Harris (spleen), WR James Jones (knee), QB Aaron Rodgers (right shoulder). Full participation: LB A.J. Hawk (groin), S Aaron Rouse (concussion).

* On DT Justin Harrell: Full participant. Observed throughout individual. "I think he's in very good shape. We'll use the full week of practice to determine his status." Doesn't know specifics of how do in team periods.

* On Harris: Doubtful for Sunday. "He was able to do a lot of the individual drills, did some extensive conditioning. ... Mentally, he feels he could play." Made significant progress.

* On Bigby: Tested today, remains "close." Opened it up today. See how he feels Thursday. "He's a lot closer this week than he was last week."

* On Colts' no-huddle offense: Spent a little extra time working on today. Natural tendency is to simplify, but can't let opponent dictate what do defensively.

* On Lee: Had back spasms. Fought through last week. Doctors felt best to sit today.

* On Pickett: Hopeful. Shooting for Friday. In meeting this morning, Dr. Pat McKenzie felt Pickett needed to rehab today and tomorrow. Possibly would have to restrict him via taping or otherwise.

* On Rodgers: "He did not throw today. He'll potentially throw (Thursday). He will not throw on Friday." Will rehab hard this afternoon and see where his pain level is after that. QBs coach Tom Clements is spending extra time with him on footwork.

* On DE Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila: Had pretty good day of practice after good week last week.

* On TE Tony Gonzalez: "He's an excellent player." Career speaks to that. Doesn't speak on personnel matters. "There's a lot of conversation that goes on."

-- Tom Pelissero, tpelisse@greenbaypressgazette.com

Post #2 » by **ReasonablySober** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:20 pm

I think the goal should be to have everyone as close to 100% as possible following the bye week, this Colts game be damned. I know that the train of thought could be to have guys like Pickett, Harrell, Lee and Bigby tough it out this week because of the time off following the game, but I don't want to risk anything further.

Great to hear about Harris.

aaprigs311 · Post #3 » by **aaprigs311** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:42 pm

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Injury report: Wells has chest/shoulder strain
Center Scott Wells was limited to action in the jog-through portion of today's practice because of a strained shoulder/chest muscle, sustained on Wednesday.

The injury might be of somewhat more concern because Wells had a series of upper-body strains in recent months, but coach Mike McCarthy said he's "pretty confident" Wells will play on Sunday against Indianapolis.

Other noteworthy stuff from McCarthy ...
* QB Aaron Rodgers (shoulder) threw with velocity and could have gone through the whole practice, but it was decided midway through to rest him. He wasn't on a set pitch count.
* The only other changes to the injury report were S Atari Bigby (hamstring) and CB Pat Lee (back) moving to limited participation and S Aaron Rouse (concussion) being removed from the injury report.
* Bigby "looked good" after finally passing his running test on Wednesday. Whether he can go full speed will determine whether he plays on Sunday.
* WR James Jones (knee) almost certainly will miss Sunday's game because of recurring problems.
* CB Al Harris (spleen) would have played last week if it were his choice, but he is "doubtful to out" for Sunday.
* Part of the decision on the status of DT Ryan Pickett (tricep) will be what he'll wear to protect the injury.
* McCarthy made a point of saying fans need to crank up the volume throughout Sunday's game in order to disrupt the Colts' no-huddle offense. He half-jokingly pleaded with the media to distribute the message.

-- Tom Pelissero, tpelisse@greenbaypressgazette.com