“Questionable” on the Injury Report
Ten of 12 players on the Falcons injury report are “questionable” for Monday night’s game at New Orleans. That includes four starters and several key contributors.
Notable players include a trio of backs: Jason Snelling, Ovie Mughelli and Jerious Norwood.
Mughelli, the team’s starting fullback, missed the last two games with a calf injury. During that stretch the Falcons have had two of the lower rushing outputs of the season.
Snelling moved into the fullback/tailback role with Mughelli and Norwood’s injury and has performed well, leading the team in rushing yards in a loss last week at Dallas. The team’s seventh-round pick in the 2007 draft now has 19 carries for 122 yards and 11 catches for 100 yards (one touchdown) on the season.
He did not practice during the week with a hamstring injury. Neither did Norwood (hip). Mughelli practiced but was limited.
Should Snelling be unable to go, fans could get a steady dose of recently-signed running back Aaron Stecker.
Starting defensive linemen John Abraham (foot), Thomas Johnson (calf) and Jonathan Babineaux (ankle) are also listed as questionable, but Abraham and Babineaux have played in games in the past with the “50-50″ status.
Since the Falcons have a travel day between reporting injury status and playing the game, players could improve.
The Saints column on the Piedmont Healthcare Injury Report is less daunting: 11 “probable” names out of 13 listed.
On a related note, I’m officially listed as “out” for Monday Night Football.
After fighting an illness for most of the week, I’ve decided not to make the trip to New Orleans and risk getting anyone else sick. I will, however, join the AF.com team in cyberspace on Monday night to bring coverage and site updates.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=6c5fde71-59d7-4325-b1d2-8ab792f91722)
Sorry to hear you are still under the weather, but tell the truth, Mrs JMike just did not want you on burbon street.
Get well soon.
Sorry to hear that you are sick but Abe can go 50-50 yuo can too. J/K Hope you feel better and GOOOOOOOOO Falcons
Man this aint good at all…we were already at a slight disadvantage now it looks like we may be without 60% of our key players…hope there is a plan B that mike smith can bring out…get well soon jmike
man this doesn’t look good, and please start ty hill we need him , and bring in sidbury and put Anderson at DT. Turner we need you more then ever . this should be a good game , Go Falcons!
I think this is a good situation. We have been game planning and scheming and playing rediculously conservative. How else do you play a game your slated to lose? You put all that aside and play with everything hanging out. I’m looking for some things we havn’t seen this year. How do they plan around a team that’s playing people that they havn’t seen much of. There will be a lot of unexpected plays.
Sorry to hear you are sick, hope you are better by now. You guys are still my favorite team in the world.
O-line good…QB good…receivers good…Turner good…Linebackers and secondary good…We should be OK
FALCONS WILL WIN MONDAY NIGHT
we still have jenkins and michael turner its gonna be a tough game but we got this gooooooooo falcons
thats just the line we still have our linebackers we just need our secondary to step up and make some big plays for the falcons tonight to get a win on the saints……Mike smith is a good coach i think the falcons got something up their sleeves to night for them aints i mean saints?
Who Dat!
Who Dat!
Who Dat saying they gonna beat dem saints!
GO SAINTS!!
I’m afraid to even watch this game because of the secondary is so vulnerable.I don’t beleive they are fully responsible for the losses because the offense has been only decent…which is not ok when you’re looking at the roster.Offensive play calling has also been questionable to me. Mike said that he would expand the playbook this year but it seems that he has limited it.How many times have you guys seen Matty go deep?not many!If they wanna have a chance in this game they have to throw the ball down the field instead of those little slant routes