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Saints’ team doctors have sought advice on treating Derek Carr’s injury

The Saints’ doctors can’t just keep doing what they’ve been doing. They consulted with Texas after Quinn Ewers suffered the same injury as Derek Carr:

The New Orleans Saints will be without starting quarterback Derek Carr for  a few more weeks, which gives Spencer Rattler an opportunity to learn on the job and take more live reps. But it’s not like the Saints are planning to keep Carr on ice forever. They want him back in the lineup, and their doctors have been doing their homework to devise the best plan for treating his oblique muscle injury.

Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers suffered a similar oblique strain, which is an unusual injury for a football player. But the school’s medical staff treated him well and Ewers only missed two games, plus a bye week, before returning against Oklahoma in the “Red River Rivalry” game. Ewers scored a touchdown pass and ran for another score in the Longhorns’ 34-3 rout on Saturday.

And on the broadcast, FOX Sports sideline reporter Holly Rowe shared an interesting footnote. She said the Saints had reached out to consult with Texas’ doctors on how they treated Ewers so effectively.

“It’s such a rare injury, it’s actually something that we see in baseball pitchers and volleyball players,” Rowe said, misspeaking and calling Carrr by his older brother’s name, “Actually David Carr in the NFL had a similar injury, they reached out to Texas this week to find out how they’re treating him, treating Quinn Ewers, because he has looked good. A lot of different techniques.”

That misstep aside (it’s not the first time the Carr brothers have been confused for one another, and it won’t be the last), this is good information. There’s nothing unusual about medical professionals consulting with each other especially for rare conditions like this one. The best surgeons in the world still sit through seminars and visit universities for workshops to learn how to better treat their patients.

But that hasn’t stopped fans on social media from laughing at the Saints’ expense — what kind of sports doctors can’t treat sports injuries? That seems to be a negative response due to all the frustration the team has had with injuries over the years, which is a little unfair. It would be more concerning if the Saints weren’t looking for help when working outside their area of expertise. They can’t just keep doing what they’ve been doing and hope for different results.

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Derek Carr dealing with new injury, will learn more after return to New Orleans

Derek Carr is dealing with a new injury after an awkward windup to throw late against the Chiefs. He says he’ll learn more after the team returns to New Orleans:

The last time we saw Derek Carr, he was writhing in pain and clutching at his lower back after his final pass against the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night. Then he got up slowly, was walked to the blue medical tent on the New Orleans Saints sideline, and then escorted to the locker room for further evaluation. So how was he feeling after the game?

“Not good,” Carr replied, “We’ll get an MRI and all that kind of stuff tomorrow, and figure it out.”

Carr said he wasn’t functional — not able to move and throw how he needed to, and that there wasn’t time for the team medical staff to treat him with just  minutes left in regulation. So he’ll travel back to New Orleans and undergo testing to get a better idea of what’s ailing him after a night’s rest.

But it wasn’t a hard collision that hurt him. Carr said an awkward windup to throw was when he first noticed something was off: “It wasn’t even the hit, honestly. Just when I dropped back, and torqued to throw that ball to (Mason Tipton), that’s when I felt it.”

The Saints announced his injury as an oblique issue, and those have been a problem for them before. Marshon Lattimore missed most of training camp dealing with it. Drew Brees had it flare up a couple of times over the years, too. There’s certainly a possibility it could keep Carr from playing next week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

If that’s the case, everything the Saints have done and said suggests it would be Jake Haener starting next Sunday, not Spencer Rattler. But we’ll just have to wait for an update once Carr has had the opportunity to go through a thorough evaluation. The only certainty is that the Saints offensive line can’t do as poor a job protecting their quarterback as they did Monday night and expect to win.

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Reports: Georgia QB JT Daniels dealing with injury

Reports: Georgia QB JT Daniels dealing with injury

According to Dean Legge of DawgPost, Georgia quarterback JT Daniels is dealing with “an upper-body injury.”

It does not appear to be too serious, as DawgPost reports the quarterback has still been practicing with the team.

Daniels has missed some reps with the No. 1 unit this week that he typically would have taken. However, Dawg Post can confirm that Daniels has taken part in practices this week.

247Sports is reporting that Daniels is considered “questionable” for this Saturday’s game against UAB.

247Sports wrote that Daniels’ injury is to his core, and added that it’s likely his ribs or oblique.

When Daniels suffered the injury is unknown, but if it were prior to the Clemson game that would justify the lack of downfield shots Georgia took.

Per 247Sports, former 4-star Carson Beck received a majority of the first team snaps on Tuesday. If Daniels is unable to play against UAB, expect Beck to get the start.

Head coach Kirby Smart has not yet commented on this.

Seahawks suffer couple injuries in season-finale win over 49ers

The Seattle Seahawks suffered a couple of injuries in their season-finale win over the San Francisco 49ers in Week 17.

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The Seattle Seahawks beat the San Francisco 49ers in Week 17 and finished the year as the NFC West division winner and the NFC’s No. 3 seed heading into the playoffs. But the Seahawks may be limping a bit into the postseason after suffering some injuries in Sunday’s contest.

Coach Pete Carroll provided a number of player updates following the game.

Safety Jamal Adams, who injured his other shoulder, should be fine for the wild-card round pending any new developments.

“He hurt his shoulder,” Carroll told reporters. “He was just so disappointed, he was more dejected about the fact that he got banged up—I think it was on a pass rush – and we’ll see what happens, see what that means for next week, I can’t tell you. The early stuff from the trainers is that he’ll play next week, but we’ll have to see how he does get through the week.”

Seattle saw another defensive player leave the game early, defensive tackle Jarran Reed.

“He had an oblique strain that happened early-middle of the game, and he went back in with it and played with it,” Carroll said. “Pretty sore coming out though, so we’ll have to see what that means. I don’t have any forecast there.”

Carroll also said running back Rashaad Penny suffered some mild cramping but was “fine.”

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