It Ain't So! (Maybe)

by John Morgan on Oct 19, 2009 5:12 PM PDT Comment 18 comments

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Lofa Tatupu's self inspection left inconclusive results.

Lofa Tatupu might not be done for the season.

How much that really impacts Seattle's season is message board fodder, but Tatupu is an instrumental piece of this defense and the less hurt he is the better. It's been a bad couple of years for Tatupu. The silver lining to his most recent injury is that Lofa may finally heal the aches and pains that have haunted him since last season. A healthy Tatupu is awesome in ultraviolet.

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Additional hat tip to jacobstevens.

I did not see your fanshot or would have front paged it.

by John Morgan on Oct 19, 2009 5:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I like your title better.

by jacobstevens on Oct 21, 2009 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I will pour out a sip of Chimay as an offering to the Football Gods.

Heal up Taps.

Child please...

by Airborne Hawk Guy on Oct 19, 2009 5:56 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It's demoralizing to see someone as awesome as Tatupu get hurt again, especially after an ironman start to his career,

but I really don’t think we have it any worse on the injury front than some other teams, or at least in terms of players on IR. Kris Jenkins is out for the year. Chris Samuels and Randy Thomas are out for the year. Brian Urlacher, Samari Rolle, etc…

"Mayhap a hidden door lurks nigh. Let us search the environs."

by Fearless Frog on Oct 19, 2009 6:55 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Which team has it worse?

Plus IR is only better than whats happened to us if these guys actually come back and contribute, which remains to be seen…

by michaelfox99 on Oct 20, 2009 8:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

PLEASE.

"Football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental." - Doug Plank

by Stevo's on Oct 19, 2009 7:21 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Hill and Trufant were supposedly in practice yesterday

or start up today. For some reason, I’m actually starting to feel hopeful.

by LantermanC on Oct 20, 2009 8:28 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

confirmed

http://blog.thenewstribune.com/seahawks/2009/10/20/practice-report-trufant-hill-out-at-practice/

"Its not that I can't read and write, its just that I don't like to read and write."
-Charlie

by ninjasocks on Oct 20, 2009 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

just seems funny

This injury bug seems all to weird to me.

Hill is injury prone, Branch, a host of other players and now it seems that Lofa has become a budding complement to that list.

Why can’t this team get healthy and stay that way?

I ROCK out with my HAWK out, therefore I am....

by durteehawk on Oct 20, 2009 8:47 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I'd like to see some analysis of this.

Not sure how someone would go about doing that. Have certain teams managed to avoid injuries more than others? Is it climate? Toughness of training regimen? The kind of players a team drafts?

Perhaps, for example, the current Seahawk defensive scheme’s preference for small, quick players means we get guys who are frequently physically overmatched on the field and they end up getting hurt. This is just an example.

by djafrot on Oct 20, 2009 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Football Outsiders has researched injury

but it’s tough.

by John Morgan on Oct 20, 2009 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Freak injuries happen to even the healthiest of players.

It’s not Lofa’s fault that Deon Grant went helmet-first into his chest.

by BrianL on Oct 20, 2009 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wonder if he's pissed at Grant?

I am, he should be too. “What the fuck Deon?” That’s how their conversation should start.

by DJ C-Raig on Oct 20, 2009 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have no idea how Lofa would react

but these things happen. Deon was trying to make a play but Lofa happened to be there at the same time.

by BrianL on Oct 20, 2009 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was completely joking, I'm sure Lofa understands the circumstances,

but this is the second player Grant has just blasted (Fisher). He’s like Taylor Mays w/o the actual finishing of the play.

by DJ C-Raig on Oct 20, 2009 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Conspiracy theorists may be on to something if

Grant ends up with the mic in his helment and the cool sticker too…

by Groundhog on Oct 21, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

not to much to analyze....

they are injuries, they happen and for many different reasons. Nothing like this injury phenomenon can be attributed to one certain aspect or problem i.e. conditioning, Mora’s upbeat grueling practice regimen, the water out of the taps at VMAC. It is just one of those things that happens to a team every so often; more so than others.

I ROCK out with my HAWK out, therefore I am....

by durteehawk on Oct 20, 2009 10:54 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It's one of those self-fulfilling prophecies things

The thing you fear most is what the gods use to torment you. Think Winston Smith and the rat.

(For the record, in case they’re watching, I am deathly afraid that Matt Hasselbeck will put greasy fingerpoints all over the Lombardi Trophy while hoisting it into the air during the postgame celebration of a Seahawks victory.)

by Mr Fish on Oct 20, 2009 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs