This seems to be becoming a trend with the Green Bay Packers. Cornerback Damarious Randall, who has been sidelined with a groin injury, underwent surgery for that injury over the weekend.
It’s similar to how running back James Starks suddenly popped up with a knee injury and had surgery on the weekend the Packers played the Cowboys a couple weeks back. The only difference is Randall has been sidelined since the Packers played the Giants on October 9.
He made a brief and unsuccessful return against the Cowboys the following week and then sat out against the Bears. Although this is obviously a sign that Randall won’t be available for a while, the surgery isn’t expected to end his season.
Randall hasn’t been very good when he’s been on the field this year, but the Packers need him. They are already without Sam Shields, who is on injured reserve, until at least week 14. Quinten Rollins has also been sidelined the past two games with a groin injury, but he could return this week.
In the meantime, the Packers have been using LaDarius Gunter and Demetri Goodson as their starting cornerbacks. Gunter rebounded with a strong game against Chicago after a poor showing against Dallas. Goodson has largely gone unnoticed, which is a good thing.
As for Randall’s injury, you have to wonder what took so long for him to have surgery, why the Packers thought they could play him against Dallas and if that made the injury worse? It now appears Randall could be sidelined for an additional six weeks.
#Packers standout CB Damarious Randall had an operation for a core muscle injury, as @RobDemovsky said. Rough one, but fewer than 6 weeks.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) October 24, 2016
I still say Randall injured himself at about the 13:00 minute mark of the second quarter against the Vikings. The film clearly showed he tweaked something in his left leg. Randall has struggled every sense that play. May have appeared minor at the time, however groin injuries tend to get worse without rest. Probably wrong because the Packers would have put Randall on the injury list for the Detroit game, and didn’t Randall play well in that game? Sarcasm intended.
Plus Banjo and Abby on IR.
This season, is a big stinking shit pile of a mess. Sorry…it is. The players and coaches might want to have daily prayer meetings of beating the Falcons, regardless of Atlanta’s weak defense, their offense is no joke.
The Falcons are pissed, they lost 2 in a row, one against Seattle on a non call of blatant PI on Sherman. also lost in OT to the Chargers because of bad coaching decisions.
For any chance of the Packers winning, they’d have to put up 40 plus. I don’t see it.
This is a good example of a team catching another team at an awkward time. Could be ugly. There is no way that our offense can muster 40 points The defense better play tough at the line to keep this within reach of our less than stellar offense. Two questions come to mind this week, what is up with Nelson? and what is up with Matthews? Matthews only played 27 snaps last week . . . Is he another of the walking wounded?
All the big money players except for Rodgers, apparently just want to play part time, if they’re even playing at all.
Speaking of Shields, usually concussions are day to day, maybe week to week. For them to put him on IR after being out so long should probably tell us something. But we’d have to guess what it is, because the people who support this team and pay their fucking salary’s can’t be told anything.
I’ll say it again……The 3 stooges can’t leave soon enough for me.
It’s a road game in a dome against a good team… But we’re coming off 10 days rest whereas the Falcons played in OT & no Tevin Coleman
I hope we lose by 34
Because Demovsky’s always right, like the time he said that Montgomery had a grade 2 mcl injury, and would be out 2-3 weeks.
When in actuality, he had ankle surgery, and was out for what, 8-9 months? So he was close. Former Gazette writing Packer ball swallowing reporter.
Who is this “standout” corner Ian Rapoport speaks of…
Yea, i noticed that also. I think he might have been quoting Demovsky, but i didn’t care enough to check, because he’s a tool anyway.