Six Bucs listed as ‘ill’ on the first injury report:

“Six Bucs were listed as ill: starters Graham Barton, Emeka Egbuka, Dan Feeney, Luke Goedeke, Logan Hall and Baker Mayfield.”

Rams Win Injury Report Battle 16-4

The Jaguars listed Travon Walker as full, Robert Hainsey as limited

The Jaguars posted their initial injury report for Week 7. To nobody’s surprise, linebacker Devin Lloyd and tight end Quintin Morris won’t be available. Before the team flew to London, both of them had been ruled out.

Ventrell Miller, a third-round pick in 2023, will fill in for Lloyd. On the other hand, there’s a strong chance that Jacksonville will promote tight end Jordan Atkins to the active roster via standard elevation after signing him before making the trip. If he suits up, he’ll be behind Johnny Mundt and Hunter Long on the depth chart.

For the moment, though, Lloyd and Morris are the only players who won’t suit up. Center Robert Hainsey got the limited designation while he recovers from a hamstring injury he suffered in Week 5. Rookie Jonah Monheim stepped in his place and got the starting nod against the Seattle Seahawks.

If Hainsey isn’t good to go, Monheim will make his second start in a row. It’s important to note that the Jaguars gave up seven sacks and 33 total pressures in the loss to Seattle. However, Monheim only allowed one pressure. Based on his promising outing, it’s possible that the coaching staff may not be in a hurry to get Hainsey back on the field in Week 7.

Apart from Hainsey, safety Eric Murray (neck) and wide receiver Dyami Brown (wide receiver) were limited in practice. Then again, they’ve previously popped up on the injury report but still played, so both of them should be good to go against the Rams.

The biggest news from the injury report, though, is probably that Travon Walker was a full participant in practice. The former Georgia Bulldog is dealing with a wrist injury. He underwent surgery before Week 5 and missed a game. Walker returned for the Seahawks game but was on a snap count. Having more time to recover, he could have a bigger role against the Rams.

Having Travon Walker is huge, but the Jaguars O-Line must play better

The Jaguars should be thrilled that Travon Walker has no restrictions. Having him around will increase the odds of rattling Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford. However, the biggest question mark ahead of the game is the offensive line. It may not matter if Robert Hainsey doesn’t suit up, as Jonah Monheim could fill in for him. However, the rest of the group must fare much better after their underwhelming outing in Week 6.

Trevor Lawrence was routinely pressured against the Seahawks, and the Jags couldn’t get the running game going. What’s surprising is that the Jacksonville offensive line was among the best in the NFL early in the season, but somewhere along the way, the unit suffered a steep dropoff. They must buck the trend.
https://blackandteal.com/jaguars-already-ruled-out-two-players-devin-lloyd-robert-hainsey-initial-injury-report-for-rams-game-01k7mz2w295a

zn wrote:

CBS is just wrong.

I suspected as much. Their injury reports have been frequently unreliable over the years.

They have a tilt towards Fantasy Football, even in their “mainstream” reporting. And they just put up everything that comes their way without having a beat reporter make any investigations. Seems to me.

JourdanRodrigue@jourdanrodrigue.bsky.social
Dan Duggan and I go back and forth on Stafford/Giants :

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Would Rams really trade Matthew Stafford to Giants? Examining a potential deal

By Dan Duggan and Jourdan Rodrigue

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6146076/2025/02/20/matthew-stafford-trade-giants-rams/

It’s no secret the New York Giants are desperate to find a quarterback. They literally don’t have one — there are no quarterbacks currently under contract.

General manager Joe Schoen announced after the Giants completed a 3-14 season that the team will “look at any avenue we can to upgrade the position.”

“We’ll look at free agency. We can also look throughout the draft, potential trade opportunities,” Schoen said.

The inclusion of “trade opportunities” was notable, especially with the expectation at the time that the Giants, who have the No. 3 pick, would most likely target a quarterback in the draft. As time has passed, there has been surprising buzz about a potential trade target: Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford.

There’s enough smoke around the Stafford-to-New York rumors that a deeper dive into the situation is warranted. So I enlisted colleague Jourdan Rodrigue, the most plugged-in Rams reporter there is, to find out if a Stafford trade is realistic.

Since any actual trade discussions will be initiated by the Giants, let me open our discussion with a simple question: Why on earth would the Rams be open to trading Stafford?

RODRIGUE In a sane and logical world, they wouldn’t be! But as we know, sometimes football gets weird …

Stafford had a dispute with his existing contract extension (signed in 2022, after he helped the Rams win the Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in L.A.) as early as last spring, and his camp let that be known during the first round of that year’s draft. This dragged out all spring and summer and even into the first day of training camp, during which coach Sean McVay pushed back his opening news conference by three hours while working out the eventual adjustment with Stafford that morning. The adjustment effectively front-loaded most of Stafford’s remaining guarantees into 2024 and kept the door open to revisit the rest of the existing contract this spring.

Now we’re here: There’s no chance Stafford will play on just $4 million in guarantees in 2025, so the contract must be adjusted again. The Rams, on the other hand, didn’t commit publicly to the QB in their season-ending news conferences last month and will be hesitant to shell out a huge sum or a lengthy deal with Stafford turning 37 earlier this month. That’s why all of this is up in the air — and curious teams are undoubtedly sniffing around.

Know of any?

DUGGAN Funny you should ask! I can think of a certain team desperate for a quarterback with a GM and coach on the hot seat. The Giants’ rumored interest in Stafford makes perfect sense for this regime, especially if it’s not all-in on drafting a quarterback with the No. 3 pick (or earlier).

After suffering through two seasons of heinous quarterback play, it’s easy to see why the Giants would be interested in adding a proven winner who was tied for fifth in Mike Sando’s annual QB tiers ranking last summer. Schoen and coach Brian Daboll are under pressure from ownership to win or else in their fourth season. No (potentially) available quarterback offers a better path to winning than Stafford.

The question is the cost to acquire Stafford. Even if the Giants are convinced they’re a quarterback away from contending, there are still obvious holes in a roster that won three games last season. So they need to guard against mortgaging the future in a trade for a 37-year-old. So, the first part of the compensation equation: What do you think Stafford will be looking for in a new contract to facilitate a trade?

RODRIGUE Stafford would make most quarterback-needy teams much more competitive, which is why I genuinely believe the ready-to-win Rams would like to get something done if they can. But what would he accept? Back off, aggregators, because the following is my opinion: I think Stafford believes he has plenty more football left after two relatively stable seasons; I think he knows he’ll be a hotly-debated future Hall of Fame candidate (I believe he merits induction); and I think he got a taste of winning postseason football games too late in his career and wants more. When I watch him play when he’s feeling his best, there’s no question he’s got juice left.

There is a level of financial respectability owed to a quarterback of his stature. The fact that he wasn’t happy with last year’s number before the adjustment, especially the guarantees, is telling of where his floor is now.

However, I don’t believe the Rams want to make a long-term, high-cost investment in any quarterback they don’t know for sure is part of their future because they now feature a young roster with multiple high-dollar contract extensions soon due. They could be looking at shorter-term or flexible terms without shelling out top money.

While one side of that scale might be doable for another team, if it’s between the Rams and Stafford, then both sides will have to meet closer to the middle for this to get worked out. That means the Rams might have to pay more or pad guarantees or even increase the years, OR Stafford would have to accept less. Or both! The Rams are also likely asking themselves whether it’s worth facing this question all over again the next couple of offseasons, or would it be easier to cut ties now and pursue a bridge player en route to finding their long-term future at the position?

DUGGAN OK, so whatever the number is, I think we can end the fantasy of Stafford coming to the Giants on his eminently affordable existing contract. The other major question from the Giants’ perspective is, what do you think the Rams would be looking for in return if they do decide to deal Stafford?

RODRIGUE Funny thing about the Rams, they sometimes will ask for the moon — why not? — while ultimately expecting to land somewhere else in the atmosphere. They don’t have a second-round pick in 2025 because they used it to trade up last year for Braden Fiske. They also don’t like where they’re sitting in the first round (No. 26); GM Les Snead refers to picking in the 20s as “purgatory.”

In a deal for Stafford, acquiring a pick high enough to package and move up for a top receiver or offensive lineman, or acquiring enough picks to package together to go after a few need positions would probably be worth listening to. In this case, I look less at that tasty No. 3 overall pick and more at No. 34 (and then some) … though you’ve got to at least ask, right?!

DUGGAN The Rams definitely need to ask about No. 3, and the Giants definitely need to hang up the phone. No. 34 is where the conversation gets interesting. I don’t know how the Rams make the trade if they can’t get that second-round pick (plus more). Pick No. 34 would be a steep price to pay, but I don’t think a Giants offer will be taken seriously without their second-rounder. How much more they have to give up will depend on a combination of their level of desperation and the competition for Stafford.

Your point about Stafford clearly still having juice when he’s feeling his best raised my antenna to some nagging questions about a 37-year-old who has battled injuries. Have there been signs of decline? Strictly looking at the box score stats, there’s been a dip since that magical 2021 Super Bowl season. But what have you seen watching him every week?

And on a related note, how much of a concern is durability? He has only missed one start due to injury in the past two seasons, but he missed eight games in 2022 and, from afar, seems to be banged up often.

RODRIGUE Stafford wasn’t on the injury report all season, and you’re correct to note he has only missed one game due to injury over the last two. However, we annually seem to find out how much he was playing through either via allusions to this by McVay or, in the case of this year’s ribs injury, via his wife Kelly Stafford’s podcast. There’s no question he can still play. The arm talent is still so clear; he can make any throw you’d want and some you didn’t think were possible. He’s willing to move more in recent seasons to pick up easy yards when available, but he’s far from a mobile quarterback.

I’d add that through the back third or so of the 2024 season, he played poorer football than I have seen from him in his time in L.A.. He managed more games than he directly won during that span. He also admitted he didn’t play well. However, in the playoffs, he turned back into an absolute killer. Can you tell I am not quite done watching him here in L.A., yet?

DUGGAN I get it … which is why it’s so hard for me to fathom the Rams trading him! The last time we saw him, he was driving with a chance to beat the Super Bowl champion Eagles in the divisional round. Anyway, the Giants would be dreaming about being in that position if they make the trade. But it would need to happen fast, especially with the retirement talk that has swirled around Stafford in recent years. I know he said in an interview last summer that he hoped to play three or four more years. So, we’re down to two or three more years based on that timeline.

I don’t know if he’s said anything more about his future, or if you have a better sense for how much longer he’ll play. All I know is the Giants just traded a third-round pick for Darren Waller, and he retired a year later. They can’t afford that type of debacle with Stafford.

RODRIGUE Some of the retirement talk definitely seemed to help move the needle on previous contracts, I’ll just say that. And my personal opinion? That dude will throw the ball around until the wheels fall off, so long as he’s being paid a respectable sum to do it, he feels healthy and his team has a plan to win. Any team Stafford plays for will have to walk the line between top-level play, his march toward 40 and the risks that come with. If the Rams don’t want to pay top money in the context of that risk (and I don’t believe they do, even though I do believe they want Stafford to be their QB), and another team is OK with all of it, that team should make the call.

DUGGAN The whole “plan to win” thing seems like it could be a sticking point with the Giants. Stafford doesn’t have a no-trade clause, but he can effectively quash a deal if he says he doesn’t want to play for a suitor. So, here’s the (multi) million-dollar question from the Giants’ perspective: Do you think Stafford would be interested in coming to New York?

RODRIGUE That’s a big, big question. I can’t speak for him, of course, but I do think he absolutely thrives in the spotlight, so the market and the back pages aren’t a deterrent. The Giants also have a top receiver and an offensive-minded head coach, plus a defense that can hold its own especially if given half a chance by its offense. If they pay Stafford, that’s another factor in their favor. I don’t think it’s an accident (or subtle) that ESPN’s Adam Schefter recently noted Chad Hall, Stafford’s brother-in-law, now coaches in New York. You tell me, Dan, having watched every snap — is their offensive line respectable enough for a quarterback who isn’t exactly mobile?

DUGGAN The O-line progressed to functional when stud left tackle Andrew Thomas was in the lineup last season. And if the Giants are going to make the plunge for Stafford, I expect they’ll be equally aggressive to upgrade the protection in front of their investment.

Schefter adding that link between Hall and Stafford while breaking the hiring of the Giants’ assistant QB coach — surely a huge scoop in his world — was just another log on the fire of this smoldering rumor. Things will start to get real — or not — soon. So let’s finish up this speculation by setting the table for what’s to come.

Rams brass made it clear after the season that it wants a quicker resolution with Stafford than last year. You reported this week that the sides have had some initial conversations and plan to continue those in the near future. League-wide business will pick up at the NFL Scouting Combine next week. So, when do you expect we’ll find out if Stafford will be back in LA or on his way out?

RODRIGUE If I’m McVay, I want this resolved before the mandatory NFL combine interviews with the media take place (McVay and Snead won’t be in Indianapolis, per usual, but will speak virtually). I know the Rams will not let this situation drag out through the spring, as it did last year. I don’t believe this is contentious at all, and based on their initial conversation, everybody knows where everybody is at. However, if the Rams want to keep any leverage against a full payout, they’ll need to have a clear understanding of what their trade options (and their bridge QB options) are, and Stafford’s agent Jimmy Sexton will want a full picture of what he could stand to make elsewhere. That’s a long way of saying this could be figured out before next week, or it could take until after the combine. It’s fluid, for sure, and I’ve learned by now that you never can rest too easily at any time in the football calendar when the Rams are working on something.

DUGGAN Well, that five-week offseason was fun! It’s back to work, with Stafford’s fate looming as one of the biggest dominos in the league. We’ll have you covered from coast-to-coast on how this situation unfolds.

Lions injury report

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Week 1 injury report: Jahmyr Gibbs returns in full, just 3 Lions dealing with injuries

https://www.prideofdetroit.com/2024/9/4/24235046/week-1-injury-report-jahmyr-gibbs-returns-in-full-just-3-lions-dealing-with-injuries
<p id=”poV8cF”>Let’s take a look at the Lions’ first injury report of the 2024 season.</p>

Injured reserve, Non-Football injury list

• G Christian Mahogany (Illness, mono) — NFI list, eligible to return in Week 5
• DT Brodric Martin (knee) — injured reserve, eligible to return in Week 5
• DL John Cominsky (MCL) — injured reserve, eligible to return in Week 5
• CB Emmanuel Moseley (pec) — injured reserve, eligible to return in Week 5

Estimated no practice

• S Loren Strickland (thumb)

<p id=”GR8FG4″>Not much is known about Strickland’s injury at this time beyond the fact that he was also not practicing on Tuesday. Hopefully, we will learn more later this week when coach Dan Campbell speaks with the media on Friday.</p>

Estimated limited practice

• DT DJ Reader (quad) — Week 2 target return date, but Lions keeping the door open
• S Ifeatu Melifonwu (ankle) — status for Week 1 “unclear”

<p id=”EkIhQl”>Reader has been projected to return to game action in Week 2 for a few weeks now, but on Wednesday, Campbell indicated there may be a chance the Lions prized free agent is ready to play this week.</p>
<p id=”edt62N”>“So, yes, there’s still a chance,” Campbell said of Reader possibly playing this week. I’ll know more probably after tomorrow than I do right now. He’s doing well. He’s doing well.”</p>
<p id=”LAvz0x”>Reader is not out of the woods yet but there are encouraging signs.</p>
 

Lions injury report

https://www.prideofdetroit.com/2024/9/4/24235046/week-1-injury-report-jahmyr-gibbs-returns-in-full-just-3-lions-dealing-with-injuries

Just somethin on the internetz

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https://www.baltimorebeatdown.com/2023/12/7/23992482/ravens-practice-updates-lamar-jackson-missing-from-thursday-practice

We’re guessing illness

On Thursday, Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson was noticeably absent from practice. Both because he’s the biggest name on the team and not on the field and the fact he was the only absence on Thursday, as wide receiver Rashod Bateman returned after missing Wednesday with an illness designation.

It’s likely Jackson is absent due to illness. He was not on the injury report yesterday with any designation following practice. Jackson has been prone to suffering illness around this team of year, which is what’s being assumed at this time. However, it’s not ideal to have Jackson miss practice against a team that’s up-and-coming during this back-half stretch and in challenging weather conditions, especially when ball security’s been an issue for this offense all season.

We’ll here more from either the podium today or when the injury report is released around 6:30 p.m. ET. Note, Head Coach John Harbaugh is not scheduled to speak, so it’s up to whether our not Offensive Coordinator Todd Monken will answer the why Jackson is absent.

She chose the wrong words.

You know…the thing is…even if the sideline reporters didn’t make up the shit the coaches “said,” then all that means is that the coaches made up the shit that the coaches said.

Lost in the media coverage of this is the fact that sideline reporters don’t actually ever say anything of value anyway, apart from injury reports – which nobody needs a sideline reporter for.

Sideline reporters aren’t reporters. They’re showbiz, and the big sin committed here is openly acknowledging that sideline reporters are useless.