TBO.com - TBO is Tampa Bay Online

Redskins Lose Samuels For Year

ADVERTISEMENT

The Associated Press

Published: December 9, 2008

ASHBURN, Va. - Five-time Pro Bowl left tackle Chris Samuels is out for the season with a torn right triceps, the latest blow for a Washington Redskins team that has sunk to last place in the NFC East.

Samuels was injured in Sunday night's 24-10 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.

Right tackle Jon Jansen was also hurt in the game and an MRI on Monday revealed a sprained MCL in his left knee. The Redskins (7-6) said Jansen has not been ruled out for this week's game against the Bengals.

The dual injuries forced Coach Jim Zorn to insert Justin Geisinger - a backup center who hasn't played tackle since college - into the game at tackle in the fourth quarter against the stifling Ravens pass rush. Geisinger struggled - and got hurt as well. He was having an MRI on Monday to address what Zorn called "a potential knee problem."

Zorn said second-year player Stephon Heyer will start the rest of the season at left tackle in place of Samuels.

No Regrets After Obscene Gesture
ALLEN PARK, Mich. - Detroit Lions center Dominic Raiola says he has no remorse for making an obscene gesture toward Lions fans because their heckling went too far.

Raiola told a reporter, who extended a middle finger during her question, that he didn't regret his actions toward fans Sunday during a 20-16 loss to Minnesota.

"I don't take one thing back," he said Monday.

Raiola said fans have been particularly hard on him because he's been with the team since 2001, when it started a slide that has become the NFL's worst eight-season stretch in more than a half-century.

The Lions (0-13) have lost 20 of their past 21 and are 31-94 since 2001, falling to the league's poorest winning percentage (.248) over an eight-season stretch since 1950.

"I'm just so frustrated," Raiola said. "I'm tired of being a doormat for people to just talk to us how they want to talk to us.

"I'm just not going to put up with that anymore."

VIKINGS: Fox televised a clip of Vikings owner Zygi Wilf's postgame locker-room speech after Sunday's victory at Detroit, and tight end Visanthe Shiancoe was inadvertently shown naked in the background. He was wearing a towel that did little to cover him.

The network apologized, but screen-grab images were all over the Internet.

RETIRING: Kicker Morten Andersen, the NFL's career-leading scorer, is retiring because of knee problems.

Andersen, 48, a native of Denmark who scored 2,544 points during his 25-year career, played for the Falcons the past two seasons but wasn't able to get a contract this year.

Share this:

Loading Comments...

Email Print

ADVERTISEMENT