Colts safety Sanders could be out 6 weeks

Splat · 09-17-2008, 08:57 AM

Colts safety Sanders could be out 6 weeks

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—All-Pro safety Bob Sanders could miss four to six weeks with a high ankle sprain sustained during the Indianapolis Colts’ win last Sunday over Minnesota.

Team president Bill Polian said during a taping of his weekly TV show Tuesday night that the league’s defensive player of the year could also have arthroscopic “cleanup” surgery on one of his knees while he’s recovering from the ankle injury.

“He will be back, that is for sure,” Polian told WISH-TV. “At this point we are not sure of the severity, but four to six is the reasonable assumption at this time.”

Matthew Jones · 09-17-2008, 09:02 AM

That's unfortunate. Even though I'm not a Colts fan, I'm still sad to see a quality player like Sanders get injured. It just makes the games less exciting to watch. Hopefully he's back closer to the four weeks than the six.

Splat · 09-17-2008, 09:08 AM

He is a great player when on the field its to bad he has never started a full season with out missing time.

tylerb929 · 09-17-2008, 09:38 AM

This sucks, but I think Melvin Bullitt is going to surprise a lot of people.

bored of education · 09-17-2008, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by tylerb929

This sucks, but I think Melvin Bullitt is going to surprise a lot of people.

like matt cassel? lol

iBoldin · 09-17-2008, 10:17 AM

Big blow depending on how many weeks Sanders is out for. But, has Dwight Freeney or Bob Sanders ever played a full, 16 game sched. with each other? Might be a little bit to worry about in Indianapolis.

Sveen · 09-17-2008, 10:34 AM

Ouch. Tough break for Indy.

NY+Giants=NYG · 09-17-2008, 10:35 AM

Isn't this guy always getting hurt? Feels like every year I hear or read something like this. Don't know if it's true, but damn, that's alot of time to miss.

bigbluedefense · 09-17-2008, 10:36 AM

How's their depth at Safety? With his injury history, and with the simple gameplan they employ, they should have a quality backup behind him to ease his loss whenever it happens.

He either rifles down the field to stop the run or drop in an intermediate zone in Cover 3 most of the game, a quality backup should be able to fill that void no problem.

Gay Ork Wang · 09-17-2008, 10:37 AM

Colts wont make the playoffs if those players are getting injured at this rate

wicket · 09-17-2008, 10:42 AM

I really think that might cost indy the playoffs allthough their division doesnt look as tough as it did preseason tbh

bored of education · 09-17-2008, 11:21 AM

Is Michael Coe still on the team? i liked him alot of a prospect

tylerb929 · 09-17-2008, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by bored of education

Is Michael Coe still on the team? i liked him alot of a prospect

He's on IR.

But he plays CB, the back ups at safety are Melvin Bullitt and Matt Giordano who have both proven to be very capable back ups.

PACKmanN · 09-17-2008, 12:06 PM

and their run defense has just gotten weaker.

CC.SD · 09-17-2008, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by PACKmanN

and their run defense has just gotten weaker.

Yah, try much weaker. All this high profile players going down really sucks.

MetSox17 · 09-17-2008, 12:55 PM

Much weaker? You mean after they gave up close to 200 yards on the ground to Minnesota, when they KNEW they were gonna run? Ouch.

Same ol' song and dance for Bob Sanders though. I'd hate to see what that defense looks like, without the only guy that was making plays this past week.

tylerb929 · 09-17-2008, 01:20 PM

Bob left the Minnesota game with about 13 minutes left in the 4th quarter. After that Minnesota still ran the ball 8 more time (7 of them were Adrian Peterson), on those 8 carries they gained 28 rushing yards (27 of them were Petersons).

That means.....

With Bob Sanders:
Adrian Peterson, 22 carries, 133 yards, No TDs, 6.0 ypc
Chester Taylor, 3 carries, 17 yards, No TDs, 5.7 ypc
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RBs with Bob in, 25 carries, 150 yards, No TDs, 6.0 ypc

Without Bob Sanders (Melvin Bullitt):
Adrian Peterson, 7 carries, 27 yards, No TDs, 3.9 ypc
Chester Taylor, 1 carry, 1 yard, No Tds, 1.0 ypc
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RBs without Bob in, 8 carries, 28 yards, No TDs, 3.5 ypc

Not saying, just saying. I'm sure there were other factors, but at this point in the 4th both teams were still playing for the win and if anything the Colts D should have been more worn down than the Viking offense.

Menardo75 · 09-17-2008, 02:13 PM

Yeah that sucks he is so important to their defense.

Dam8610 · 09-17-2008, 02:27 PM

There have been reports that it could be as short as 2 weeks, but he may get a knee scope, though that supposedly wouldn't take as long to recover from as the ankle injury.