Division Rivals Getting Banged Up

About the only good news from yesterday's game was that no Eagles got seriously hurt.  Lito Sheppard looks like he's going to miss some time with an MCL sprain, but that could have been much worse.  The same can't be said for the rest of the division:

Cowboys -- Terry Glenn is deciding whether to have season-ending knee surgery.   Nose tackle Jason Ferguson -- a bear of a man who was expected to be the foundation for the Cowboys' run defense -- is out for the year with a torn biceps tendon.

Giants -- Eli Manning, Brandon Jacobs and Osi Umenyiora were all injured in last night's game.  Jacobs will be out three-to-five weeks.  His potential replacements didn't look great last night.  The severity of Osi's knee injury isn't yet known.  Eli has a bruised shoulder, which doesn't sound too bad but could be the kind of thing that lingers.  [UPDATE:  On Monday Night Football they just announced Eli will miss at least a month with a separated shoulder.]

Redskins -- Right tackle Jon Jansen suffered a "fractured dislocation of the right ankle," which sounds terrible.  Washington hasn't decided yet on his replacement, but Jansen won't be an easy guy to replace.

Yes, things could have been worse yesterday.

UPDATE: Add the Bears to the list after they lost two defensive starters for the season as well.

Comments

[BenZ]

I actually thought Ward was good as the Giants backup RB.

The grain of salt (microscopic grain) yesterday is that all of the NFC teams looked like crap. The Cowboys lit up the Giants, but got lit up themselves. The Panthers beat up on the Rams with a QB that shouldn't even be starting anymore. The Packers' offense put 3 points up against the Eagles at home. The Bears offense is worse than their defense is great. The only positives seem to be the Lions (playing Oakland... hmmm...) and the Vikings (playing the Falcons... hmmmm....)

Yeah, I don't look down the schedule with much fear. Patriots game is probably the only one where the birds look outmatched.