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By Darren Urban, Tribune
December 22, 2005
Reliant Stadium in Houston has sent two Cardinals toward season-ending knee surgeries. The team is just happy one of them is not rookie cornerback Antrel Rolle.
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Rolle’s MRI came back negative on his swollen left knee, and he said Thursday doctors told him he will not need further surgery. The same can’t be said for cornerback Lamont Reid, who went under the knife Thursday, and guard Adam Haayer, who will have surgery next week, after both were hurt against the Texans.
The team already knew quarterback Kurt Warner would not need surgery on his partially torn medial collateral ligament suffered in Houston.
But Rolle’s injury was scary because he already has surgery on it earlier this season, missing nine games during rehab before returning two games ago. He played a nickel role against Washington and then started in Houston.
When Rolle was told of his MRI results, it was “definitely a relief.”
“They told me to ease back,” Rolle said. “Everything happens for a reason. I wanted to come back bad enough a little too much. I have to take care of my mind, take care of my body.
“I’ve been frustrated. I had a lot of goals and I haven’t been able to do none of them because of my injury.”
Rolle is the only one of the four players hurt in Houston who has an outside chance of playing in the season finale in Indianapolis, although coach Dennis Green said that is unlikely.
“If he wasn’t coming off knee surgery, we’d probably drain it and he’d come out and play,” Green said. “But we’re taking a much more cautious approach.”
REMEMBERING DUNGY
The sudden death of James Dungy, son of Colts coach Tony Dungy, hit Green hard. Tony Dungy was on Green’s first coaching staff, serving under Green from 1992-95. “It puts the world we exist in in a different perspective,” a somber Green said. “I just think it is a tragedy. “There’s not a parent that wouldn’t give their life for their child’s life. There’s a helplessness we all feel when we lose a child.”
EXTRA POINTS
Aside from Rolle and Reid, every other Cardinal was able to practice Thursday. Defensive tackle Darnell Dockett (ankle), who missed practice Wednesday and was listed as questionable, was upgraded to probable. . . .
The Eagles will be without quarterback Donovan McNabb, running back Brian Westbrook, receiver Terrell Owens and most of their original starting offensive line Saturday, but the Cardinals insist they won’t take playing the Eagles’ reserves lightly.
“I wouldn’t say they are unknowns,” Cards defensive tackle Ross Kolodziej said. “No one gets on the field in the NFL if they aren’t a good football player. You have to respect that. It’s a short week. It’s still come down to execution. It’s more about what you do anyways.” . . .
If Larry Fitzgerald gains 64 more yards receiving and Anquan Boldin gets 60 more yards, the Cards’ duo will become only the fifth tandem in NFL history to post 1,300-yard receiving years in the same season, and the first since Pittsburgh’s Hines Ward and Plaxico Burress did it in 2002.
Contact Darren Urban by email, or phone (480) 898-6525
December 22, 2005
Reliant Stadium in Houston has sent two Cardinals toward season-ending knee surgeries. The team is just happy one of them is not rookie cornerback Antrel Rolle.
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Rolle’s MRI came back negative on his swollen left knee, and he said Thursday doctors told him he will not need further surgery. The same can’t be said for cornerback Lamont Reid, who went under the knife Thursday, and guard Adam Haayer, who will have surgery next week, after both were hurt against the Texans.
The team already knew quarterback Kurt Warner would not need surgery on his partially torn medial collateral ligament suffered in Houston.
But Rolle’s injury was scary because he already has surgery on it earlier this season, missing nine games during rehab before returning two games ago. He played a nickel role against Washington and then started in Houston.
When Rolle was told of his MRI results, it was “definitely a relief.”
“They told me to ease back,” Rolle said. “Everything happens for a reason. I wanted to come back bad enough a little too much. I have to take care of my mind, take care of my body.
“I’ve been frustrated. I had a lot of goals and I haven’t been able to do none of them because of my injury.”
Rolle is the only one of the four players hurt in Houston who has an outside chance of playing in the season finale in Indianapolis, although coach Dennis Green said that is unlikely.
“If he wasn’t coming off knee surgery, we’d probably drain it and he’d come out and play,” Green said. “But we’re taking a much more cautious approach.”
REMEMBERING DUNGY
The sudden death of James Dungy, son of Colts coach Tony Dungy, hit Green hard. Tony Dungy was on Green’s first coaching staff, serving under Green from 1992-95. “It puts the world we exist in in a different perspective,” a somber Green said. “I just think it is a tragedy. “There’s not a parent that wouldn’t give their life for their child’s life. There’s a helplessness we all feel when we lose a child.”
EXTRA POINTS
Aside from Rolle and Reid, every other Cardinal was able to practice Thursday. Defensive tackle Darnell Dockett (ankle), who missed practice Wednesday and was listed as questionable, was upgraded to probable. . . .
The Eagles will be without quarterback Donovan McNabb, running back Brian Westbrook, receiver Terrell Owens and most of their original starting offensive line Saturday, but the Cardinals insist they won’t take playing the Eagles’ reserves lightly.
“I wouldn’t say they are unknowns,” Cards defensive tackle Ross Kolodziej said. “No one gets on the field in the NFL if they aren’t a good football player. You have to respect that. It’s a short week. It’s still come down to execution. It’s more about what you do anyways.” . . .
If Larry Fitzgerald gains 64 more yards receiving and Anquan Boldin gets 60 more yards, the Cards’ duo will become only the fifth tandem in NFL history to post 1,300-yard receiving years in the same season, and the first since Pittsburgh’s Hines Ward and Plaxico Burress did it in 2002.
Contact Darren Urban by email, or phone (480) 898-6525
