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I don't know the severity of Lito's injury (what is it about guys from Florida not staying healthy on this team?), but there were a TON of key NFC East injuries that happened yesterday or in the few days leading up to the games. This will just be the update thread because a number of them will absolutely have an effect on the season:

- Eli Manning: Bruised shoulder (unknown how serious but he left game).

- Brandon Jacobs: Knee injury...MRI scheduled for today.

- Osi Umenyiora: Knee Injury...MRI today

- Jason Ferguson: Tricep (I think)...done for the year.

- Terrance Newman: Plantar Faciatis...day to day kinda thing that will effect him the whole year.

- Jon Jansen: Fucked up ankle...done for the year.

- Terry Glenn: Knee...likely done for the year with microfracture surgery, but he may still choose another surgery that could get him back this year. Either way, he's either done for the year or will be severely limited when he returns.

I was watching the Bears game and didn't see the PGPC, but was there anything wrong with Kearse?

As an aside, I hope it's as easy to pass on the Cowboys and Giants as it looked last night. The d-backs might as well not have even dressed for the game.

Jacobs out 3 to 5.

Sheppard out at least 1 game:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3012935

Jason Ferguson is done for the year.

He'll probably be out more.

Not an NFC East injury, but Mike Brown is out for the year.

That was for Shep being out, btw.

shep has the same injury as Jacobs. gotta figure hell be down for a month. I love the guy, but he cant stay healthy for shit...

Not an NFC East injury, but Mike Brown is out for the year

Jesus...he makes Lito look like Cal Ripken.

Let's add another body to the pile -

Orlando Pace is also out for the year.

MORE bodies -

Eli Manning has a separated shoulder, should miss a month.

Separated shoulder bodes poorly even AFTER the month of recovery is done.

Rumors are that the Giants are interested in the Pillsbury Slowboy, aka Leftwich.

Pillsbury Slowboy = Roy Williams.

My fault. Leftwich is the Pillsbury Throwboy.

amazing, totally unexpected turnaround in kevin everett's prognosis, based, apparently, on a medical breakthrough in treating spinal cord injuries immediately after the injury occurs:


BUFFALO, N.Y. - Kevin Everett voluntarily moved his arms and legs on Tuesday when partially awakened, prompting a neurosurgeon to say the Buffalo Bills’ tight end would walk again — contrary to the grim prognosis given a day before.

“Based on our experience, the fact that he’s moving so well, so early after such a catastrophic injury means he will walk again,” said Dr. Barth Green, chairman of the department of neurological surgery at the University of Miami school of medicine.

“It’s totally spectacular, totally unexpected,” Green told The Associated Press by telephone from Miami.
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Green said he’s been consulting with doctors in Buffalo since Everett sustained a life-threatening spinal cord injury Sunday after ducking his head while tackling the Denver Broncos’ Domenik Hixon during the second-half kickoff of the Bills’ season opener.

Everett dropped face-first to the ground after his helmet hit Hixon high on the left shoulder and side of the helmet.

Asked whether Everett will have a chance to fully recover, Green said: “It’s feasible, but it’s not 100 percent predictable at this time. ... But it’s feasible he could lead a normal life.”

On Monday, Bills orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Andrew Cappuccino, said Everett likely wouldn’t walk again.

“A best-case scenario is full recovery, but not likely,” said Cappuccino, who operated on the reserve tight end. “I believe there will be some permanent neurologic deficit.”

Cappuccino and officials at Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital did not immediately return several messages left with them by The AP.

In a report Tuesday evening, Buffalo’s WIVB-TV quoted Cappuccino as saying: “We may be witnessing a minor miracle.”

Bills owner Ralph Wilson said the team has been in contact from the beginning with Green and the Miami Project, the university’s neurological center that specializes in spinal cord injuries and paralysis.

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Everett’s agent, Brian Overstreet, also said Everett’s mother told him the player moved his arms and legs when awakened from a deeply sedated sleep.

“I don’t know if I would call it a miracle. I would call it a spectacular example of what people can do,” Green said. “To me, it’s like putting the first man on the moon or splitting the atom. We’ve shown that if the right treatment is given to people who have a catastrophic injury that they could walk away from it.”

Green said the key was the quick action taken by Cappuccino to run an ice-cold saline solution through Everett’s system that put the player in a hypothermic state. Doctors at the Miami Project have demonstrated in their laboratories that such action significantly decreases the damage to the spinal cord due to swelling and movement.


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“We’ve been doing a protocol on humans and having similar experiences for many months now,” Green said. “But this is the first time I’m aware of that the doctor was with the patient when he was injured and the hypothermia was started within minutes of the injury. We know the earlier it’s started, the better.”

Everett remains in intensive care and will be slowly taken off sedation and have his body temperature warmed over the next day, Green said. Doctors will also take the player off a respirator.

Cappuccino said Monday that the 25-year-old did have touch sensation throughout his body, showed signs of voluntary movement and was able to breathe on his own before being sedated. But he cautioned that Everett’s injury remained life-threatening because he was still susceptible to blood clots, infection and breathing failure.

Green noted that Everett and Wilson have ties to Miami and the Miami Project — Everett played there and Wilson is one of the project’s largest donors.

“It’s an amazing group of circumstances. It’s a home run. It’s a touchdown,” Green said.