Jaguars WR Mike Sims-Walker injury update: High ankle sprain.
by Alfie Crow on Nov 22, 2010 6:02 PM EST
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PrintAccording to Tania Ganguli of the Florida Times-Union, the ankle injury Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Mike Sims-Walker suffered against the Houston Texans is a high ankle sprain. A high ankle sprain is typically a multi-week injury and given the fact that Sims-Walker didn't practice all last week would lead me to believe Sims-Walker will likely be out against the New York Giants this week.
Given what transpired on the offense on Sunday, this will be an injury to watch this week.
The Jaguars offense was anemic to say the least with the absence of Mike Sims-Walker. Hero from the Houston Texans game, wide receiver Mike Thomas was bracketed all game long. He scored a touchdown and gained some yards on a couple short passes. He ended the game with 5 catches for 35 yards and a touchdown. With Sims-Walker out of the line up, it removed a legitimate wide receiver threat from the field. This let the Browns lax coverage on a side and bracket Thomas and tight end Marcedes Lewis.
Even though the Jaguars took a couple shots down the field, it severely limited the Jaguars ability to go down the field. The Browns forced the Jaguars into taking short stuff or a homer-run shot, limited the normal 15 yard intermediate area the Jaguars can typically take advantage of.
"I was getting a lot of bracket on the inside. They would stack the safety on the inside. Also they would put a nickel guy underneath me a lot on third down so they were trying to take me away I guess in some kind of fashion, but we were able to get the win so that's all that matters," Mike Thomas told Charlie Bernstein of FSN Florida after the game.
Prior to the screen pass to Maurice Jones-Drew, David Garrard was only 19/33 for 179 yards. That left him with a measly 5.4 yards per attempt (YPA). That's a full 3-yards below Garrard's YPA of 8.8 prior to the game. Quit a bit of Garrard's yardage in the game were on quick short passes that relied on the receiver to get a good chunk of the yardage after the catch, which hasn't been typical of the Jaguars passing offense this season.
If Sims-Walker is out again on Sunday, which I am going to assume he is, the Jaguars offense can expect to see much of the same.
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by Zoltan from Budapest on Nov 22, 2010 6:15 PM EST up reply actions
That's a blow
After what we saw last week. I agree with you Alfie- MSW is a key part of teh offense. I hope somebody can step up. That Hill guy maybe…
Meanwhile good news for us from New York(according to Tania Ganguli):
Now the Jaguars will face a Giants team without WRs Hakeem Nicks or Steve Smith.
So Nicks is out too. They left with Manningham and Boss basically. Boss is scary; but Manningham? I hiope the Jags can limit him….
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by Zoltan from Budapest on Nov 22, 2010 6:15 PM EST reply actions
a thought
Am I crazy for thinking we’re going to deactivate Underwood and activate the kid we just picked up from San Fran? I figure it’s not as steep a learning curve to learn routes as it is to say, learn a playbook as a quarterback or blocking schemes and cohesion.
I really hope he does not get cut
He’s in effect a rookie and he’s filled quite a few roles this year. I think he was so damn frazzled by the time of that kick return that I expected him to bobble it.
He is definitely in need of some head clearing time.
He is Gene's pick
He will be on the roster just for that- for now.
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by Zoltan from Budapest on Nov 22, 2010 7:13 PM EST up reply actions
I notice you say things like "Gene's pick" quite a bit
Not sure whether that’s to be taken in a negative conotation as if Gene has his pets for lack of a better term.
Yeah
Espcailly after Gene just said in his Monday Radi show that Jason Hill had 3 excellent practice last week. I think he will see action on Sunday.
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by Zoltan from Budapest on Nov 22, 2010 7:13 PM EST up reply actions
The kid from San Fran...
We can’t even name him, but he is going to be the savior replacement for MSW this week?
Where is Osgood in all this? Nates Hughes (uh, I mean Tiquan Underwood) blew his shot on Sunday. And the great hope from the preseason, John Matthews, did he even get a ball thrown his way? The targets on Sunday will be Thomas, Lewis, MJD and Miller. I would be surprised if all the others didn’t get more than 1 pass each thrown their way. My advice, get Zach Miller the ball.
Garrard
He certainly wasn’t good yesterday, but I don’t think it makes too much sense to compare his YPA without the screen pass to his YPA for the year. For it to make sense you’d have to take out the hail mary/all other stellar plays by someone else.
Oh well, lets hope MSW gets back soon and since we got the bad Garrard this past week, hope we get the good one next week.
Every QB in the league
has big screen passes and missed tackles that allowed the RB/WR to go for big yards included in their YPA number. Trying to look at that number without a specific long catch makes no sense.
I mean, should you also include the yardage on the passes that were perfect but the WR’s clearly dropped ?
DG is the best we have and help is not on the way. I realize he's not perfect, but I feel a lot better about him at QB than I do the O-Line, DB's, or LB's ability to cover a TE.
If you're referring to the fact that MSW will be missed
I think everyone understands that.
Right up there with the sky is blue and water is wet….
DG is the best we have and help is not on the way. I realize he's not perfect, but I feel a lot better about him at QB than I do the O-Line, DB's, or LB's ability to cover a TE.
Instead of nitpicking about me talking about the YPA prior to the screen (which exemplifies the ENTIRE point) and trying to make it sound like I’m bashing Garrard, talk about what’s actually typed. It’s makes all the sense in the world to point out how the passing offense was anemic prior to a 75-yard screen play, of which about 73 yards were YAC.
This article is in no fashion a criticism of David Garrard. Stop trying to make it that.
Instead of getting defensive
maybe you should notice that I wasn’t nitpicking, I was replying/agreeing with tdhendrick and added an additional example of why its doesn’t make sense to exclude any yardage.
Maybe you should go after tdhendrick.
DG is the best we have and help is not on the way. I realize he's not perfect, but I feel a lot better about him at QB than I do the O-Line, DB's, or LB's ability to cover a TE.
It makes perfect sense. The screen was the final offensive play of the game. On the other 33 passing attempts, the YPA was atrocious. If 70, 60, even 50 yard plays happened more than once in a blue moon I could see the point, but they’re not.
Even with the screen, the YPA was a full yard below season average.
I mean honestly, your both turning this into something it isn’t. You evidently don’t understand the point I was making. That was by far the longest play of the season. They’re 30+ yard plays are extremely low as well. Comparing the YPA without it to season average is right on point, because it’s not like the season’s been littered with long plays to spike his YPA, It’s been littered with intermediate routes that got taken away in this game, as I mentioned. Which is why the YPA prior to the screen was so abysmal.
This was all explained in the article. Evidently, it was missed.
Hmm
Can we all drop the pro garrad anti garrard bologna. He has good days he has bad days but in the end let’s enjoy the win, have fun and look forward to beating the Giants next Sunday enjoy life
by jesusjagfan2009 on Nov 22, 2010 9:53 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Hmm
Can we all drop the pro garrad anti garrard bologna. He has good days he has bad days but in the end let’s enjoy the win, have fun and look forward to beating the Giants next Sunday enjoy life
by jesusjagfan2009 on Nov 22, 2010 9:54 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I'm confused
Isn’t the West Coast offense at its most basic predicated on YAC? I mean I saw a lot of interations of it from DeBerg to Montana to Young and the imitators. I don’t remember too many 50 yard bombs, but I do recall a lot of dumps to Craig and Rathman and Brent Jones and quick slants to the wideout.
And the 75 yard pass was actually a 4 yard pass after a loopy pirouette. I’m all about accuracy.
MSW is a huge component of this offense
of that there is no doubt, even when he is having rough patches. His ability along with Garrard’s newfound ability to go downfield (much credit to the offensive line) give this offense a dimension we have not had since Leftwich and the respect given to Jimmy Smith.
We just don’t have that third guy who can be a difference maker. Underwood is not it, Osgood is not either, nor is Matthews. That’s why I said perhaps we plug in Hill. With the injuries in the NFL, you need guys who can fill in, maybe not at the same strength, but guys who will command respect of the secondary. Without MSW secondaries know they can collapse the field as they are likely not going to get beat deep, but on the underneath stuff.
I hope they put Zach Miller at WR
for a good number of snaps. He may not have the best speed, but he’s physical and big.
nobody is attacking Alfie
tdhedrick questioned the idea of comparing YPA without the screen. It’s a valid question.
DG is the best we have and help is not on the way. I realize he's not perfect, but I feel a lot better about him at QB than I do the O-Line, DB's, or LB's ability to cover a TE.
by pksiv on Nov 22, 2010 8:44 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Well, we will see news about the position…if i understood correctly on Jaguars Monday, Underwood won’t be the starter anymore, it was just too much for him. I would really like to see what Hil brings to the table…cannot be worse than Underwood.
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Good point...
Hill couldn’t be any worse as a WR than Underwood, and he won’t be missed if Deji is back returning kicks.
I wonder if Nick Collins will be able to chip in any worthwhile information about Giants, or is that former player stuff mostly BS?
I'm
Excited to see Hill. At least he had more than 30 catches a few seasons ago.
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Underwood was critical in the victory over the Colts.
His performance was abysmal last week and needs to be given a wake up call. His speed is his greatest asset and we see he has miles of work to go but that is why he was practice squaded last year. As Vic would say, you don’t give up on a guy with that speed.
You read my my Rhett- I was just about to make the same comment. Troy would be a nice addition I think.
Troy has the speed,
and has much better hands. TU can go back to the Practice Squad
by rhettchrystal on Nov 22, 2010 9:09 PM EST up reply actions
+1
DG is the best we have and help is not on the way. I realize he's not perfect, but I feel a lot better about him at QB than I do the O-Line, DB's, or LB's ability to cover a TE.
Alfie
I saw your named linked on a Jaguars picture on Facebook. I noticed you repping a Black Keys shirt. Looks like we have similar taste in football teams AND music.
this sucks
we actually need MSW lol, if he doesnt play this is gonna be a huge loss for us yet again..we need to win this game
I guess we should just cancel the trip to NY....
don’t be so glum chum. All is not lost. The have injuries, and so do we. I am confident we can overcome ours. Lets hope they do not fare so well!
no doubt
Last week was the game where the defense had to assert itself especially in winning the battle of physicality and it stepped up to the plate in a resounding way.
This game, the offensive line is going to have to play out of its mind. If we limit the impact of the hits Garrard takes, we can win this game. He’s going to get sacked, his style of play lends itself to a lot of hits. I’m really thinking this may be a game where we have 3 or 4 running backs with at least 5 carries apiece.
giants d-line
is going to be all over Garrard and our o-line does have to play lights out..theyve injured literally like 5 qbs this year, eugeneee monroeeee timeeee
Looks like another reason to cancel the trip.....
Its great that you have let the team know this and they can save all that money and just take the loss….nice work!
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