INJURY REPORT: Meier’s groin injury is serious
Atlanta Falcons Tony Gonzalez is upended by Saints defenders after catching a pass. Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com
FLOWERY BRANCH — The Falcons will likely be thin at linebacker and wide receiver against the New Orleans Saints on Monday night.
Linebacker Stephen Nicholas (toe), wide receiver Kerry Meier (groin) and cornerback Kelvin Hayden (dislocated toe) were listed as doubtful in the team’s official injury report.
Below find the Falcons and Saints’ official injury reports:
FALCONS’ INJURY REPORT
Player Pos Status Injury
Kelvin Hayden CB Doubtful Toe
Kerry Meier WR Doubtful Groin
Stephen Nicholas LB Doubtful Toe
Brent Grimes CB Questionable Knee
John Abraham DE Probable Not Injury Related Harry Douglas WR Probable Groin
Tony Gonzalez TE Probable Not Injury Related Curtis Lofton LB Probable Ankle
Todd McClure C Probable Not Injury Related
Christopher Owens CB Probable Hand
Corey Peters DT Probable Knee
Jason Snelling RB Probable Illness
Will Svitek T Probable Groin
Michael Turner RB Probable Groin
NEW ORLEANS’ INJURY REPORT
Pos Player Injury Game Status
LB Jonathan Vilma Knee Probable
RB Mark Ingram Toe Doubtful
G Jahri Evans Knee Probable
DT Sedrick Ellis Hamstring Probable
DT Aubrayo Franklin Ankle Probable
LB Jonathan Casillas Knee Doubtful
RB Ramon Humber Knee Probable
WR Lance Moore Hamstring Questionable
–D. Orlando Ledbetter, The Atlanta Falcons beat blog
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ATLBIRDS1
December 25th, 2011
12:09 am
HiramTaint is with his boyfriend SeenThisB4.
dawgforlife
December 25th, 2011
12:36 am
you know, I have no idea if NO even has a newspaper..and I certainly don’t spend my time blowing in and writing Falcons mess on Saint stories. It never ceases to amaze me the Saint fans are so interested in the Falcons. They are obsessed with Atlanta. I truly couldn’t care less about the Saints. I just don’t know why Saint fans aren’t the same about the Falcons?…it amazes me…they just aren’t happy unless they are over here where they truly are not welcome…please, for the sake of your team, they truly want and deserve your support. Please find a Saint blog or something and go comment on it…oh, and careful the door doesn’t hit you on the way out.
dawgforlife
December 25th, 2011
12:37 am
oh, and I almost forgot…Merry Christmas
ATLFan
December 25th, 2011
1:18 am
All I have to say about the Saints fans here in Atlanta talking smack….Your Coach Sean Peyton doesn’t even live in the state let alone the city. There is a reason you aren’t there as well. New Orleans is a cesspool with no redeeming qualities outside of the food. Go Falcons!
realheavyd
December 25th, 2011
2:02 am
The excuses are already starting even before the game is played. LET’S GEAUX SAINTS !!!
Kris G
December 25th, 2011
4:41 am
5150 – What is the point you’re making about the NBA? Football has always had more fighting than the NBA. But obviously, not nearly as much as hockey. I have an idea what point you’re trying to make, but it fails on all counts if I’m right. Hockey is the thug sport, not football or the NBA. Hockey is famous more for fighting than for skating… even off the court hockey players are the worst of the major sports as far as fighting and thuggery.
Voice of Reason
December 25th, 2011
5:24 am
Way to make the title misleading. You accomplished your goal of getting a hit from me. “Meier’s injury is serious,” yeah that’s why he’s not on IR yet. When can we get a competent beat writer?
robertussen
December 25th, 2011
6:34 am
@kris g well in that case you’d have to say that boxing and ufc have more fighting than football or hockey…… it is a mute point best to ignore those who try to pull logic out of their backside
robertussen
December 25th, 2011
6:35 am
tonight and only tonight………….go pack go. or even better lose bears lose
Sid
December 25th, 2011
8:49 am
From Urban Dictionary…………….
Geaux:
A sound made to distinguish an awkward or inappropriate comment/moment.
A more extreme version of “yikes”.
Originates from the season 4 episode “Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High” of Family Guy.
Example 1:
Fish 1: You know what I hate? A guy in a blue suit.
Fish 2: Geaux!
Fish 3: Ssssss, there’s one right behind me, isn’t there?
Example 2:
Guy: I’m not sure, but I think I might be gay.
Others: Geaux!
loel
December 25th, 2011
9:07 am
“xmas” is NOT a word and only five more letters will spell the real word. Don’t be afraid of it.
hiramsaint
December 25th, 2011
9:53 am
puppyfor life- if you don’t care then why did you respond? how ’bout that sec smackdown? bet ya didn’t care about that either. what a tard !
5150 UOAD
December 25th, 2011
9:59 am
Kris G basketball is a NONcontact Sport and has a good deal of fights. Football has way fewer fights than Basketball considered all the contact. Football is a violent sport during the actual play. Most times after the play a fight doesn’t happen. College football is getting like the NBA in that the TRASH TALKING is what is causing too many fights not the actual physical play. NHL Hockey allows fighting or haven’t you noticed.
5150 UOAD
December 25th, 2011
10:00 am
HiRam Taint how am I going to get my money from you?
realheavyd
December 25th, 2011
10:42 am
It looks like the excuses are already starting even before game day is upon us.
Sid
December 25th, 2011
10:44 am
basketball is a NONcontact Sport ????????????????
I think a whole bunch a folks will differ.
Sid
December 25th, 2011
10:51 am
“Meier’s groin injury is serious”………………….DLed, any more info on that ?? He’s only listed as doubtful……
5150 UOAD
December 25th, 2011
10:58 am
Well, the presents are open and the Mess is cleaned. Meat is still smoking. Time for eggs and biscuits. Dinner at 4 pm. The rest of the family due to arrive at 2. So far Christmas has gone well. It will be crazy when all the kids arrive.
Hope y’all are with your loved ones safe and happy. Merry Christmas.
5150 UOAD
December 25th, 2011
11:00 am
Sid Basketball is considered a Noncontact sport. Contact is supposed to draw a foul.
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Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
11:47 am
” MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE” , All Falcon’s Fans !
Hope the Aint Turds have one too !
hiramsaint, pay your 100 dollar bet off Tuesday morning out of your Christmas money. you going to lose it !
Falcon’s come home to ” Roost” in the Mercedes Super Dome !
History Channel
December 25th, 2011
2:03 pm
“Never have I heard such a bunch of pathetic human beings, and I use the term very loosely. If this is the mentally of falcon fans then I am sorry for the state of Georgia.
A quote from a horrified Falcon fan after reading 5150’s dissertations and his cousins also….lmfao
Saint Fan
December 25th, 2011
2:36 pm
74th!
Dwayne
December 25th, 2011
2:53 pm
This blog makes for some great reading…Failcants…Aints…I liked the statement about the Falcon fans leaving in the 4th quarter when the game isn’t in doubt anymore, might as well beat the traffic. I also like the statement about the paper bags that the Saints fans wore. I bet a lot of the Saints fans mothers were wearing bags on thier heads when their children were concieved.
whodat70816
December 25th, 2011
4:18 pm
FailClown fans have to resort to wishing Brees blows his knee out so their team can win a game…
LOL…
It sure is going to be fun beating the FailClowns 3 times in one season….here’s to Matty Melt getting the 6th seed.
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
4:46 pm
Green Bay Packers will beat the Pulp out of da Bears tonight like as Atlanta will need any help MNF going against the Saints….anyway it will just seal the deal tonight and put Atlanta in the playoffs but The Birds should clearly make a statement to the Saints in New Orleans that we for real and take no prisoners………………………………………heyyyyy, I just saw who hiramsaint and seenthisB4 remind me of……….they are the ” Wet Bandits ” on ” Home Alone” .
Najeh Davenpoop
December 25th, 2011
4:50 pm
“basketball is a NONcontact Sport and has a good deal of fights. Football has way fewer fights than Basketball considered all the contact. Football is a violent sport during the actual play. Most times after the play a fight doesn’t happen. College football is getting like the NBA in that the TRASH TALKING is what is causing too many fights not the actual physical play.”
Spoken like someone who gets all their NBA information from Rush Limbaugh.
Tell Shaq that basketball is not a contact sport. Tell Sean Avery that trash talking is limited to the NBA.
There is very little fighting in the NBA and what little fighting there is can barely be called fighting compared to what happens in hockey or even bench-clearing brawls in baseball.
Friendly word of advice: when you know absolutely nothing about a subject, refrain from forming opinions about it.
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
4:53 pm
What does basketball and baseball have to do with this Football Sports blog ? I am clearly lost as to how it ever got started over here from past posts………….take it to the other blogs please.
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
5:01 pm
@ whodat70816………….I don’t wish he blow a knee out myself………….in fact, I hope he has a great game and loses the ballgame and comes up 1 yard short of breaking the record and gets sacked 5 times and hurried 25 times !
Tom
December 25th, 2011
5:03 pm
“All I have to say about the Saints fans here in Atlanta talking smack….Your Coach Sean Peyton doesn’t even live in the state let alone the city. There is a reason you aren’t there as well. New Orleans is a cesspool with no redeeming qualities outside of the food. Go Falcons!”
You falcant fans make no sense at all. How can food be good coming out of a cesspool??? Admit it. First of all New Orleans, whether you like it or not is a world-class city. Second of all, our team has had a visit with the Vince Lombardi trophy. For falcant fans, it is only a dream that you wont see in your lifetime.
Tom
December 25th, 2011
5:06 pm
“tonight and only tonight………….go pack go. or even better lose bears lose”
How come you just cant depend on your falcants to win all by themselves?
5150 UOAD
December 25th, 2011
5:07 pm
Najeh Davenpoop basketball is considered a non-contact sport. Fighting has been a part of Hockey forever at the NHL level. When do the benched clear in baseball? When the Pitcher attempts to Make CONTACT with a batter using the baseball.
Michael M it was from the College Bowl Football game last night when the players got in to a fight to end the half. A punk WR scored a TD and stood over the DB and then got in his ear running his mouth. So very close to punches were thrown. Too many PUNKS are being allowed to go to college to play a sport.
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
5:12 pm
I see .
Oh and by the way whodat70816…………I do like your QB as long as he is not playing our Football Team but when he does I don’t care what they do to him …………………………….but between Breezy and air-head Rodgers, Breeze gets my pick because Rodgers thinks he is the greatest thing since the invention of the football and I can’t stand the guy and the way he things he is top of the talent !
Tom
December 25th, 2011
5:19 pm
“From Urban Dictionary…………….
Geaux:
A sound made to distinguish an awkward or inappropriate comment/moment.
A more extreme version of “yikes”. ”
Unfortunately the Urban Dictionary knows nothing of Louisiana Culture. “Geaux” in Louisiana is just a way of saying “go”. The “eaux” is pronounced like a long “O” sound in french and is very much a part of Louisiana Cajun culture. There are a lot of jokes about “Boudreaux” and there are names like “Thibodeaux” and “Gautreaux” that are well known stereotypes of Cajuns. So in Louisiana, we like to play with that “eaux” ending in words and syllables that end with a long “O” sound.
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
5:28 pm
I am so glad I live up here in the North Georgia Mountains, as close to ” Paradise ” as you can get this side of the Pearly Gates……….lol ! ! ! !
Dwayne
December 25th, 2011
5:28 pm
lets talk about fighting in sports. for the MOST part, 2 hockey players square off, the other players watch, they don’t intervene. Watch a fight break out in any other sport and see what happens.
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
5:43 pm
The Birds should be packed and on to New Orleans if not now but a little later on tonight………just think tomorrow they going to be some fighting and bickering back and forth between the Saint fans and Falcon Fans on here……….got my ” Blog Boxing Gloves ” ready Boys !
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
5:47 pm
All hiramsaint can say is ” Saints by 17, Saints by 17 . Saints by 17 “, is that all you got, Buster ?
hiramsaint
December 25th, 2011
6:10 pm
thats all i need- the game will speak for itself and the failclown excuse machine should be in high gear around 10:00 monday night. if not then it will be the failclown whining machine.
5150 UOAD
December 25th, 2011
6:36 pm
An hour and a half until the start of the Falcons making the Playoffs.
HiRam Taint is getting his Boudreaux Butt Paste ready for after the MNF game. Those butt less chaps chafe him when his wife gets ruff on him.
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
6:39 pm
lol
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
6:41 pm
Say it ” Aint ” so ? ………………lmao
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
6:49 pm
Business is slow today…………Seenthisb4 must of took a soak in the tub and lubed down with vaseline trying to sooth the burns too !
5150 UOAD
December 25th, 2011
6:52 pm
SeenthisB4 has been on the Saints blog some…http://www.nola.com/saints/index.html
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
6:57 pm
Good, he or she can take the rest of them over there too as far as I am concerned
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
7:01 pm
The way we all ragged them out this entire week, looks like they would be too embarrassed to show up over here but seeing how they are the way the are what more can we expect .
5150 UOAD
December 25th, 2011
7:01 pm
Michael the Philly blogs were funny. Sound just like the Atl blogs about MV. Some hating him and the others calling the haters racists. Sounds just like the ATL blogs for sure.
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
7:09 pm
I can’t say nothing about that other than he may cause Andy Reid to get fired.
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
7:11 pm
Heck that was to happen, we need to get Andy down here to be our defensive Coach, bet we would have the toughest D in the NFL.
Michael M.
December 25th, 2011
7:20 pm
Put him on the Peach diet…lol