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Report: Brees has fracture, torn meniscus (1 Viewer)

JohnnyU

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http://www.rotoworld.com/content/HeadLines...L&hl=188996

Report: Brees has fracture, torn meniscus

Kenny Wilkerson of WIST radio in New Orleans has reported that Drew Brees has a fracture and a torn meniscus in his left knee.

Wilkerson is citing what he says is an "impeccable source," and that the information is "100 thousand-trillion-million percent" accurate. He also added that the pain sometimes causes Brees to make mistakes when calling or executing plays and that it's possible the quarterback could need microfracture surgery at some point. Brees injured the knee back in Week 3 and the Saints referred to it only as a sprain, but it sounds like they might be covering up a bigger issue. He has been picked off more than normal this season, but overall his play hassn't seemed to be affected by the injury. Nov. 4 - 1:08 pm et

Source: Pro Football Talk on NBCSports.com

Update:

NFL Headlines

Brees laughs off 'false' knee injury report

Drew Brees laughed off a "false" report that he has a fracture and torn meniscus in his left knee.

Brees mocked the WIST radio report, saying he's "a hundred million billion trillion percent sure" it would hurt if he tried to drop-kick a football "with a broken knee." Brees also went into a jumping-jacks routine at his locker to prove to reporters that his knee is healthy. Told that his arm strength has been questioned on deep balls, Brees replied, "I'd like to watch film with those people." Beat writer Jeff Duncan deems the original report "laughably inaccurate." Nov. 4 - 4:17 pm et

Source: Jeff Duncan on Twitter

 
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Just to be sure he's OK, they should bench him weeks 14-16. :goodposting:

BTW, "100 thousand-trillion-million percent"?? Did this reporter get the scoop after triple-pinkie-swearing that he wouldn't say where it came from?

 
You can move around with a torn meniscus injury, just can't open it up and run full speed, especially if the cartilage causes the knee to "lock up"

really depends on the severity of the tear

Have had this surgery twice now....the fact that Brees is in tremendous shape may allow him to outlast the injury moreso than others could

 
bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
so they are letting their franchise QB play with a torn meniscus? Maybe QBs dont need healthy knees as RBs and WRs do???
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Elway played a good chunk of his career with no ACL in one knee, so yeah, it can be done. The things these guys can do on a weekly basis with physical maladies that would incapacitate the rest of us is amazing.
 
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Superdbs said:
bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
so they are letting their franchise QB play with a torn meniscus? Maybe QBs dont need healthy knees as RBs and WRs do???
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Elway played a good chunk of his career with no ACL in one knee, so yeah, it can be done. The things these guys can do on a weekly basis with physical maladies that would incapacitate the rest of us is amazing.
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and OT, what amazes me is the wimps who call these guys out when they can't get on the field.
 
BREES IS A STUD!

Playing on an injury not making a sound, but look at the drama Favre cause with a bumped chin.

Brees better then Favre as a man and a player. Just wanted to point out Brees charachter compared to that of Favre....movin on now....

Hes played on it so far, and u can bet you *** that he will play until the Saints are no longer in it.

I'll take a 40% Brees over half these chumps in the league.

Heres hopin for 350 and 4 this week :thumbup:

 
JohnnyU said:
http://www.rotoworld.com/content/HeadLines...L&hl=188996

Report: Brees has fracture, torn meniscus

Kenny Wilkerson of WIST radio in New Orleans has reported that Drew Brees has a fracture and a torn meniscus in his left knee.

Wilkerson is citing what he says is an "impeccable source," and that the information is "100 thousand-trillion-million percent" accurate. He also added that the pain sometimes causes Brees to make mistakes when calling or executing plays and that it's possible the quarterback could need microfracture surgery at some point. Brees injured the knee back in Week 3 and the Saints referred to it only as a sprain, but it sounds like they might be covering up a bigger issue. He has been picked off more than normal this season, but overall his play hassn't seemed to be affected by the injury. Nov. 4 - 1:08 pm et

Source: Pro Football Talk on NBCSports.com
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Ok, some context.

Wilkerson used to work for WWL, which is the main, primary official Saints station (& 50000 watt blowtorch for the Delta and MidSouth region from before the Saints existed). He got canned. Because of general craziness and poor on-air performance but also because of confrontations in the locker room, with Saints execs and coaches, and with callers. At some point he may have had a breakdown.

That being said, he *does* report things other people won't. He knows people on staff at Saints HQ. He basically started saying this injury report about Brees after the Atlanta game. He went on the radio, he did shows and reports about it, and there was a lot of debate locally about whether it was accurate, and if it was if it should be reported (the Saints deny it, WWL won't discuss it). Even CBS picked it up in the FF reports and cited WIST (his current station) as the source. He also was the one who reported the Vicodin theft story, but the thing is he has not let it go, he has continued to push it on 690 AM and people are sort of rolling their eyes at him now that the whole scandal seems to have gone away.

He is not the only one claiming Brees' INT's are related to the knee. However, Brees had two LOUSEY picks vs the Falcons, including one that was just pure bonehead, a stupid shovel pass - and those were BEFORE he got hurt. We used to see that stuff in 2006-08, along with things like red zone and deep territory picks. And indeed many of his picks just look like stuff Brees would do in 2006-2008. Last year he was perfect and he just eliminated, apparently from sheer discipline, a lot of his old mistakes. Some of the problem this year has to do with Payton's playcalling and return of the Saints having no real running game. However there are passes that just seem off sometimes; the deep pass INT vs the Steelers last week was one. The late game INT vs Arizona was another. People are saying he cannot put full pressure on his knee/leg on some passes.

To me, Brees just seems like he is slipping back to his 2007-2008 form and that it is a matter of discipline and the fact that PLAY ACTION FAKE IS JUST NOT WORKING like it did last year. There is also more pressure (not unrelated) and the WR's do not seem to be getting the same separation, *especially deep. Even IF the report is true, I see no impact in how Brees is actually playing or his season-long prospects for playing a full slate.

 
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Peter King twitter:Have doubts about validity of Brees story. At practice 5 mins ago, knee-brace-less Brees kicked field goals. Hasn't worn brace in a while.
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Looks like BS
 
He also added that the pain sometimes causes Brees to make mistakes when calling or executing plays
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How exactly does knee pain cause Brees to make mistakes CALLING plays?
 
Jeff Duncan tweeted: ( Saints beat writer)

Not sure about report, but here's what I do know: Brees has taken every practice snap, is playing w/o a brace & is the league's No. 9 passer
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I call the report BS
 
SaintsInDome2006 said:
JohnnyU said:
http://www.rotoworld.com/content/HeadLines...L&hl=188996

Report: Brees has fracture, torn meniscus

Kenny Wilkerson of WIST radio in New Orleans has reported that Drew Brees has a fracture and a torn meniscus in his left knee.

Wilkerson is citing what he says is an "impeccable source," and that the information is "100 thousand-trillion-million percent" accurate. He also added that the pain sometimes causes Brees to make mistakes when calling or executing plays and that it's possible the quarterback could need microfracture surgery at some point. Brees injured the knee back in Week 3 and the Saints referred to it only as a sprain, but it sounds like they might be covering up a bigger issue. He has been picked off more than normal this season, but overall his play hassn't seemed to be affected by the injury. Nov. 4 - 1:08 pm et

Source: Pro Football Talk on NBCSports.com
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Ok, some context.

Wilkerson used to work for WWL, which is the main, primary official Saints station (& 50000 watt blowtorch for the Delta and MidSouth region from before the Saints existed). He got canned. Because of general craziness and poor on-air performance but also because of confrontations in the locker room, with Saints execs and coaches, and with callers. At some point he may have had a breakdown.

That being said, he *does* report things other people won't. He knows people on staff at Saints HQ. He basically started saying this injury report about Brees after the Atlanta game. He went on the radio, he did shows and reports about it, and there was a lot of debate locally about whether it was accurate, and if it was if it should be reported (the Saints deny it, WWL won't discuss it). Even CBS picked it up in the FF reports and cited WIST (his current station) as the source. He also was the one who reported the Vicodin theft story, but the thing is he has not let it go, he has continued to push it on 690 AM and people are sort of rolling their eyes at him now that the whole scandal seems to have gone away.

He is not the only one claiming Brees' INT's are related to the knee. However, Brees had two LOUSEY picks vs the Falcons, including one that was just pure bonehead, a stupid shovel pass - and those were BEFORE he got hurt. We used to see that stuff in 2006-08, along with things like red zone and deep territory picks. And indeed many of his picks just look like stuff Brees would do in 2006-2008. Last year he was perfect and he just eliminated, apparently from sheer discipline, a lot of his old mistakes. Some of the problem this year has to do with Payton's playcalling and return of the Saints having no real running game. However there are passes that just seem off sometimes; the deep pass INT vs the Steelers last week was one. The late game INT vs Arizona was another. People are saying he cannot put full pressure on his knee/leg on some passes.

To me, Brees just seems like he is slipping back to his 2007-2008 form and that it is a matter of discipline and the fact that PLAY ACTION FAKE IS JUST NOT WORKING like it did last year. There is also more pressure (not unrelated) and the WR's do not seem to be getting the same separation, *especially deep. Even IF the report is true, I see no impact in how Brees is actually playing or his season-long prospects for playing a full slate.
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Bingo.If you look at Brees' Saints career, 06-present, 2009 was an anomaly, for him, and for the entire offense (running game working, very few dumb mistakes, etc). This 2010 offense is more like 2007 and 2008 (2006 was more ball control with Deuce and Reggie).

The difference is that the 2010 defense is also an anomaly. So far it's really, really good. And actually good.. not 2009 "let teams march up and down but force opportune turnovers a lot" good/arguably lucky.

I'm not seeing anything out of Brees that I didn't see in 2007/2008

 
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I've had a torn meniscus for almost a year. It sucks & my knee hurts during all physical activity, but Ibuprofen makes it pretty bearable unless I'm full out sprinting. I imagine having an NFL-caliber medical staff shoot it up with painkillers would make it much more than bearable. I'm sure lots of players ride out a torn meniscus until the offseason.

 
keep in mind that Kenny Wilkerson is a giant toolbag that 98% of Saints fans (and probably those in the organization) can't stand. it's not unlike him to unnecessarily stir up #### with incorrect info.

 
RUSF18 said:
He also added that the pain sometimes causes Brees to make mistakes when calling or executing plays
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How exactly does knee pain cause Brees to make mistakes CALLING plays?
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You see how low he crouches when he gets in the huddle? That has to hurt a bad knee. Maybe he winces or says "OUCH" and the WR is hearing "OUT" ???Given the source, it sounds like there is nothing to see here.
 
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Maik Jeaunz said:
keep in mind that Kenny Wilkerson is a giant toolbag that 98% of Saints fans (and probably those in the organization) can't stand. it's not unlike him to unnecessarily stir up #### with incorrect info.
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:thumbup: It occurred to me also that someone in the organization is messing with Wilkerson, feeding him believable -- but incorrect -- information.
 
Coach Sean Payton said Thursday a report that Brees has a fracture and a torn meniscus in his knee is "inaccurate...completely false," Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.
 
Football Critic said:
BREES IS A STUD!

Playing on an injury not making a sound, but look at the drama Favre cause with a bumped chin.

Brees better then Favre as a man and a player. Just wanted to point out Brees charachter compared to that of Favre....movin on now....

Hes played on it so far, and u can bet you *** that he will play until the Saints are no longer in it.

I'll take a 40% Brees over half these chumps in the league.

Heres hopin for 350 and 4 this week :thumbup:
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You have something on your chin. Need a tissue? Geez dude.
 
bleedgreen said:
Coach Sean Payton said Thursday a report that Brees has a fracture and a torn meniscus in his knee is "inaccurate...completely false," Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.
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I'm not saying it is or isn't true, but I don't give a ton of weight to this quote. This is exactly the same quote Payton and most other NFL coaches would give if the story was 100% accurate.
 
This made me laugh, just a little:

Drew Brees laughed off a "false" report that he has a fracture and torn meniscus in his left knee.

Brees mocked the WIST radio report, saying he's "a hundred million billion trillion percent sure" it would hurt if he tried to drop-kick a football "with a broken knee." Brees also went into a jumping-jacks routine at his locker to prove to reporters that his knee is healthy. Told that his arm strength has been questioned on deep balls, Brees replied, "I'd like to watch film with those people." Beat writer Jeff Duncan deems the original report "laughably inaccurate."

 
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