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Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant suffered a fifth Browns Spencer Lanning Youth Jersey metatarsal fracture in his right foot and the team has initially projected his absence to be between four and six weeks, according to ESPN.com’s Todd Archer. Bryant is scheduled to undergo surgery on Tuesday. Coach Jason Garrett confirmed the initial projected timeline of four to six weeks when speaking with reporters Monday but acknowledged that “all these things are premature” and that changes can happen as the process evolves. Fifth metatarsal fractures represent a break in the long bone on the outer aspect of the forefoot that connects to the fifth (pinkie) toe. This outer forefoot bone is subjected to a significant torsional stress in an athlete during pivoting, pushing off, sharp deceleration and twisting. It is also subject to impact stress with repeated running and jumping. All of the above demands fall under the domain of a wide receiver, making this injury relatively common to the position at both the professional and the collegiate level. The challenge in trying to heal from a fracture in this area is that the bone does not have a particularly good blood supply, which results in a frequent failure to heal independently, even with immobilization. For this reason, surgical fixation of these fractures (with implantation of a screw) has become the standard of care, especially in elite athletes, who will return to high-stress activities and whose specific movements in their sport put them at an otherwise increased risk of failure. Even with the presence of hardware it is Browns Tashaun Gipson Kids Jersey important for the athlete to allow adequate healing of the bone to prevent a nonunion (failure of the bone to heal completely), which could require a secondary procedure with bone grafting. Fortunately, only about 5 to 10 percent of those who undergo surgical stabilization will go on to experience continued problems with the foot. Still, given that the risk elevates with an athlete who does too much too soon, controlled early activity consistent with bone healing is critical. The early projection for Bryant may be optimistic. While every athlete heals at a different rate and no one can say from the outset how his specific recovery will progress, even when bone healing permits a return to football activity, Bryant may have a ways to go to get to competitive form. Six weeks from the date of Bryant’s scheduled surgery will be the Tuesday following the team’s bye week. It’s hard to imagine him returning prior to the bye given all the reasons outlined above. Foot and ankle specialists with whom I have consulted offer a standard projection of six to eight weeks following this type of surgery, with the caveat that it can fluctuate either way depending on the individual. (It should be noted that none of them was speaking specifically about Bryant’s case.) It’s also worth noting that a recent study of NFL players returning following a similar procedure documented the average return to competition at 8.7 weeks with the soonest at 5.9 weeks. It is worth pointing out that sometimes returning to play is impacted by other factors, including the seasonal calendar. Garrett appears ready to remain flexible when it comes to Bryant’s status. “These are not hard and http://www.nflbrownsofficialshop.com/Authentic-Taylor-Gabriel-Jersey fast timetables,” Garrett said. “These are estimates. You evaluate the player day by day and make adjustments accordingly.”

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning admitted Chargers Mike Scifres Youth Jersey taking strategic matters into his own hands late in Sunday night's season-opening loss to the Cowboys, confirming that he told running back Rashad Jennings not to score if he got close to the goal line. The purpose of the move was to run more time off the clock and deprive Dallas a chance at a comeback. It did not work. Manning ended up throwing a clock-stopping incomplete pass on third down, the Giants settled for a field goal and the Cowboys marched down the field to score the winning touchdown with seven seconds left. What led up to that sequence was bizarre. Manning said he lost track of the number of timeouts the Cowboys had left and told Jennings to stay out of the end zone on consecutive plays in case Dallas decided to let him score. "I thought they had one timeout left and they might let us score to get the ball back," Manning said on a conference call Monday. "So I told Rashad, 'Go down at the 1-inch line and don't score.' "This did not come from Chargers Nick Novak Kids Jersey the sideline. It was me, and I was wrong. I cannot be the one in that situation to inform a back. That's not my decision, in that scenario. I made a mistake." Manning spoke to Jennings about the situation after the game. He also spoke to the team Monday to take responsibility for those two plays and the third-down play on which he threw the ball out of the back of the end zone when he should have taken a sack to keep the clock running. "I'm not mad," Jennings said. "We're doing this as a team, and we thought it was best for us not to score at that point. Of course I wanted to, but that's just the football player in you." Jennings said this was the first time he had been given such an order since he was in college, and that the reason back then was that his team had a lead and a chance to run out the clock. That wasn't the case Sunday, but it still was odd to ask Jennings not to score. Had Jennings scored a touchdown on first http://www.chargersshopnfl.com/Authentic-Orlando-Franklin-Jersey down and Josh Brown hit the 33-yard extra point, the Giants would have led by 10 points with 1 minute, 50 seconds left. Had Jennings scored on second down, there would have been 1:43 left. Part of the problem was that the Giants were confused about the timeout situation. Jennings said Monday that the team believed the Cowboys had called their final timeout after the first-down play. That was based on the belief that the Cowboys had called their second timeout after Odell Beckham Jr.'s third-down catch the play before.

Baltimore Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs Broncos Terrell Davis Kids Jersey will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a torn Achilles tendon in Sunday's season-opening 19-13 loss to the Denver Broncos. This means the Ravens lose the franchise's all-time leader in sacks as well as their emotional leader. Many players in the locker room were visibly shaken by the news, and wide receiver Steve Smith Sr. and linebacker Courtney Upshaw choked up when talking about losing Suggs. "That's our leader. The motto here is next man up, and you're going to hear everybody saying that," Upshaw said. "But you never want to lose a guy like him. He's been a cornerstone for this defense for a long time." This will lead to speculation whether Suggs has played his last game. He turns 33 next month, and he acknowledged this summer that he's on the "back nine" of his career. It marks the second time that Suggs has torn an Achilles in the past 40 months. He tore his left Achilles in the spring of 2012, and he injured his right one in the middle of the fourth quarter Sunday. In the season opener, Suggs walked off Broncos Tom Jackson Youth Jersey on his own, which caused many teammates to think he had just cramped up. Suggs also didn't want to get carted off to the locker room, but the doctors insisted. Suggs has 106.5 career sacks, which is 36 more than any other Ravens player. He has the sixth-most sacks among active players. "Here's a tough, tough break for a guy who's done nothing but work above and beyond to a degree and be the kind of leader that you just admire so much," coach John Harbaugh said. "These are the things in life that happen. Adversity is how you respond to it. It's about how you react to it. It's about how you come back and play the next game, and how our young guys step up and how our older guys wrap their wings around those young guys." The injury to Suggs is compounded by the loss of Pernell McPhee in free agency. Suggs and McPhee accounted for 19.5 sacks last season. Za'Darius Smith is listed as Suggs' backup http://www.officialbroncosnflauthentic.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_TONY_CARTER_JERSEY.html on the depth chart, but the rookie fourth-round pick was inactive on Sunday. Baltimore could look to add a veteran pass-rusher like Dwight Freeney. "You can never replace Terrell Suggs," linebacker Elvis Dumervil said. "It hurts everybody when you hear news like that."

The Cleveland Browns waived Terrelle Pryor on Thursday, five days Cowboys Authentic Greg Hardy Jersey after it appeared the quarterback-turned-receiver had beaten the odds by making the 53-man roster. Pryor was let go because the Browns were awarded former Seattle Seahawks running back Robert Turbin on waivers. Turbin is recovering from a sprained ankle and will miss a few weeks of time. He has been in the league three years and gained 928 yards on 231 carries with no touchdowns. He played behind Marshawn Lynch in his three seasons, during which he didn't miss a game. Pryor was attempting to make the long climb Broncos Womens Dennis Smith Jersey in switching from quarterback to receiver. He missed most of preseason with a right hamstring injury, then played one half in the final game but did not have a pass thrown to him. "This will be a mistake by them," Pryor told the Northeast Ohio Media Group after his release. Suspended Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon tweeted some words of encouragement to Pryor after the move. Pryor worked with Gordon earlier this summer at the Randy Moss Academy as he tried to make the transition to wide receiver. As a quarterback, Pryor had been traded by http://www.seahawksofficialnflonline.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_MICHAEL_BENNETT_JERSEY.html the Raiders to Seattle for a seventh-round draft pick, then released by the Seahawks and Bengals. When Cincinnati cut him in June, he decided to move to receiver, and the Browns claimed him on waivers.

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady took Lions Larry Webster III Authentic Jersey the field for warm-ups and received a rousing cheer from the rain-soaked crowd at Gillette Stadium before Thursday night's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. As is the norm, Brady jogged from one end of the field to the other and forcefully pumped his right fist multiple times in the direction of fans seated in the end zone. Jay Z's "Public Service Announcement," one of Brady's favorite songs, played as he took the field. When the team took the field, fireworks shot in the air, and the crowd went wild. Brady arrived on the field at 7:45 p.m. ET, took some warm-up tosses and later was seen hugging Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Brady's status for the season opener was in question until Judge Richard M. Berman vacated Brady's four-game NFL suspension on Sept. 4. The league has appealed the ruling. The Patriots unveiled their Super Bowl banner in a pregame celebration that included a live performance from the Dropkick Murphys, who played "The Boys Are Back" and "I'm Shipping Up To Boston." Also, singer/songwriter/producer T-Pain was joined by the Springfield Symphony Orchestra for a performance of "All I Do Is Win." Patriots Hall of Famers Troy Brown, Willie McGinest and Ty Law Lions Womens Manny Ramirez Jersey each carried a Lombardi Trophy to a stage at midfield, and when owner Robert Kraft arrived with the most recent Lombardi, the crowd erupted. Had Brady not played tonight, the Patriots planned to unveil in his honor a banner that highlighted his four Super Bowl titles and three Super Bowl MVP awards. Chants of "Brad-y, Brad-y, Brad-y" were heard as the offense took the field for the Pats' first possession. While it rained heavily at times before the game, it had subsided by the time the ceremony began. On the opening drive, Brady put his hands http://www.lionsshopnfl.com/Authentic-Matt-Prater-Jersey on his helmet in frustration after missing receiver Danny Amendola, who was open on second-and-10. The Pats would punt. The fans renewed their "Brad-y" chants when Brady successfully snuck for a first down late in the second quarter. Two touchdown passes to Rob Gronkowski -- a 16-yard pass and a six-yard score -- gave the Pats a 14-0 lead.

If the surreal saga known as "Deflategate" has Browns Pierre Desir Authentic Jersey proven anything, it is that National Football League fans take their sport, and Tom Brady, very seriously. Look no further than the people – including a lawyer, a chemist and a schoolteacher – who wrote approximately 20 letters to U.S. District Judge Richard Berman last month while he considered whether to uphold the New England Patriots quarterback's four-game suspension for an alleged scheme to deflate footballs used in a January playoff game. Massachusetts attorney Steven Kramer challenged Brady's suspension on grounds including "double jeopardy, issue preclusion and collateral estoppel," a legal doctrine that protects defendants from being tried more than once in a criminal trial for the same issue. Another man submitted a 61-page brief undercutting the NFL's scientific evidence that the balls were intentionally deflated. Vanessa Ivelich, a teacher in Reno, Nevada, asked Berman to uphold Brady's ban for her students' sake. "How can teachers and coaches expect youngsters to Browns Randy Starks Elite Jersey abide by the rules of fair play if their favorite player doesn't have to?" she asked. Berman threw out Brady's punishment on Sept. 3, saying the NFL's appeal process suffered from serious legal flaws. The league has said it is appealing the court decision. The suspension was imposed over the footballs used in the first half of the Patriots' 45-7 victory against the Indianapolis Colts that sent them to the Super Bowl, where they defeated the Seattle Seahawks. The letters, mostly written in August, were posted publicly on Wednesday in New York federal court. The judge had pushed the two sides to settle the case, an outcome some fans supported. Liz Minnerly, a Patriots fan, suggested the team concede the 17 unanswered points they scored during the first half of the Colts game, when the controversial footballs were used. That would make the final score 28-7, she wrote, while Brady http://www.nflbrownsofficialshop.com/Authentic-Rob-Housler-Jersey could serve a half-game suspension. Other fans performed their own versions of the scientific experiments the NFL commissioned to determine whether the footballs were deliberately deflated. Mark Saito, a chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, told Berman his tests showed that winter weather could result in depressurized balls.

Tuesday morning revealed once again why NFL commissioner Seahawks Kevin Norwood Womens Jersey Roger Goodell is regarded with distrust by many players, reviled by legions of fans and -- according to an Outside the Lines report -- supported more strongly than ever by the majority of league owners. Goodell spoke publicly for the first time since U.S. District Court Judge Richard M. Berman vacated Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's four-game suspension. Appearing on ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike in the Morning, Goodell: Stood firm on the league's ongoing course of litigation in DeflateGate, no doubt appeasing owners who consider the issue a make-up call for soft punishment in the 2008 SpyGate punishment, as reported by OTL. If you were hoping the league would rescind its appeal of Berman's decision, well, it doesn't appear it will happen. Inadvertently noted the inherent confusion in some NFL policies by saying the league “absolutely” did not ask the Patriots to suspend two game day employees for their apparent roles in a ball-deflation scheme. That admission must be reconciled with the league's requirement that those two men, John Jastremski and Jim McNally, can not be reinstated without the approval of NFL executive vice president Troy Vincent. Acknowledged that "you're not going to win Seahawks Kevin Pierre-Louis Kids Jersey them all" but sounded a hopeful tone about future discipline procedures. Goodell said he wants to "get to a better place where we have ultimately better decisions." It's that final point that should provide a glimmer of hope for the future of a league that, as OTL described in great detail, is weighed down by divergent allegiances to competing goals. At the moment, the league's process for resolving disciplinary disputes is mind-bendingly ineffective. As we've discussed before, it's goes something like this: Accuse. Leak. Investigate. Mull. Leak. Discipline. Appeal. File lawsuit. Investigate the investigation. Negotiate. Exhaust all legal options. Settle (sometimes). Rinse. Repeat. Tuesday, Goodell made clear he understands that the "courts are not where we should be having these discussions," a simple but important breakthrough. He revealed he reached out to NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith last week -- before Berman announced his decision -- and told him: "We need to sit down and figure out how do we get to a better place on our discipline procedures." The question -- and this gets to the dichotomy http://www.seahawksofficialnflonline.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_LUKE_WILLSON_JERSEY.html of Goodell's intent, statements and allegiances -- is whether he is referring to substantive change or merely the appearance of it. Goodell said he is "very open" to changing his role as the league's primary disciplinary officer. His reason, however, is not poor performance but to alleviate an "extremely time-consuming" process.

When Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison http://www.lionsshopnfl.com/Authentic-Laadrian-Waddle-Jersey on Monday told reporters he's checking with the NFLPA to explore whether a statute of limitations exists for recouping money lost by fine, it was hard to tell whether he was kidding around. Harrison can be unpredictable that way. So I checked with Harrison's agent, William Parise, and he's indeed discussed this matter with his client. They've explored how this might work through the NFLPA. The situation hasn't gone much farther than that, but Parise is intrigued, largely because of Tom Brady. "Certainly there's an open door because of the courts Lions Lance Moore Authentic Jersey overturning the commissioner's ability to hear his own appeals," Parise said. In this case, a player sees Goodell striped of power and wants to act. The NFL fined Harrison $125,000 for various hits in 2010 and suspended him one game in 2011 for a hit on then-Browns quarterback Colt McCoy. Whether Harrison can get money back misses Lions Larry Warford Limited Jersey the bigger point. The fact that we're even talking about recouping fines from four or five years ago illustrates the impact of U.S. district judge Richard Berman reversing Brady's four-game suspension last week.