BigRay Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 REDSKINS NOTEBOOK Patten Says He Was Healthy Enough to Play By Howard Bryant Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 17, 2006; Page E09 As his teammates cleaned out their lockers yesterday, injured Redskins wide receiver David Patten made a surprise pronouncement: He says for the last five weeks he was healthy enough to play. 10. When posting anything concerning news articles from outside sources, please include a direct link (i.e., URL) to the origination page/site. Please paste the URL directly atop the post, above a small portion of the article's text (for example, the lead paragraph or a particular sentence or two) . Such a practice provides credibility and attribution to the source of the information, and allows visitors the option to visit the respective websites. You are responsible for the content you post. If you are posting a published article from a news source, please title your thread in the following format: "SOURCE SHORTFORM: HEADLINE" (Ex. WP: Redskins Sign CB Shawn Springs). Please see our copyright statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL4064 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 interesting......... Steven Davis for the Panthers is also healthy enough to play right now, and they are starting Goings as Foster is out. i think the IR rule needs to be looked into further for reasons like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Sorry, but how is that a surprise? I think we all knew he could play if we went far enough, but he was put on IR so we could sign another guy to fill his spot to help us get that far . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXREDSKINS44 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Yeah Gibbs commented about this yesterday saying that they really needed to fill that roster spot!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRay Posted January 17, 2006 Author Share Posted January 17, 2006 Sorry, but how is that a surprise? I think we all knew he could play if we went far enough, but he was put on IR so we could sign another guy to fill his spot to help us get that far . You're right but I didn't see it as so much of an surprise just interesting to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark911 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 blah..wrong thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OVCChairman Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 this isnt surprising. If he's a true player and not just about the money, when the season is on the line, he's going to be able to play through any pain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrell1106 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I thought it was interesting move to put him on IR only after a seemingly benign injury but JG's explanation made plenty of sense. They needed that spot and could not wait for his recovery plus we needed to win every game at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor 36 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 The IR rule is in place for a very good reason. If it did not exist, any team could sneak around the roster limit by putting players on the IR list, signing more players, deciding they want to play a diferent player this week, so they switch a player off of IR and put an other one on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herb mul-key Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 plus he thought it was a chance to see jacobs....oops, damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnacpa Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 This is being made into something and shouldn't be. This happens all the time in the NFL ... players talk about being ready to play and being on IR. Part of it is to remind other teams that they are ok, back, and able to contribute, should their current team disagree. Part of it is to let everyone know that they will be ready to go from the first offseason team workouts so that people don't have to worry. I saw these comments and do not think that Patten was making any kind of stick towards the organization. I think he will be a very productive slot receiver if we can get a legitimate #2 to compliment Moss. I really hope the coaching staff saw enough in his lack of production while he was healthy to know that he is not the answer at the #2 spot. I also hope that we bring in more than 1 receiver because if we do get 1 and Moss or that person goes down, we are back in the same spot or worse than we were this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lombardi's_kid_brother Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 One of the Giants' linebackers said the same thing. Patten might be healthy now, but the 'Skins couldn't keep going with three receivers until he was. And they should not change the IR rules. Teams would just treat IR as another practice sqaud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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