Another practice injury
Backup center Jake Dean went down with a left ankle injury late in practice. He was already running with the first unit because of the injury to Kai Maiava, and it looks unlikely he will be ready for Saturday's spring game.
It left JUCO transfer Ryan Taylor, who was playing guard on the second team, to switch to first-team center. UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel said first-team left tackle Jeff Baca right team right guard Nick Ekbatani may have to take some snaps at center.
Unreal.....what is going on....Offensive line injuries......every year same thing...
And the injury train keeps chugging along...all aboard!I certainly hope there are no more injuries but I am not that optimistic anymore. I hope that we make it to September as healthy as possible.
Ever notice how injured our offensive line has been since the arrival of Brian Price? I say bench BP for the rest of the spring so that we HAVE an offensive line to play, come fall.
If'n our line caint contain Price, what chance do they have agin any other Pac-10 D line? Lookin' at the scrimmage videos, our OL boys look lost, slow, uncoordinated, unmotivated, and downright afeerd. They's allas runnin' after the guy they's supposed to block, like chasing a hog after it sprung outta the pen. Ah'm jest sittin' here on the porch a-shakin' my ol' baldy haid and wonderin' what we done wrong to deserve this.
Ok. Jokes up Neuheisel. You can take all of the injured guys out of the closet now. You have obviously been keeping them stowed away to get some laughs at the fans. But seriously, aside from my poor attempt at humor, this is freaking ridiculous. First it was Moya, Embree, Savage and Harris. I was understanding of them coming off of surgery and such. Then it was Paulsen. Again. Then it was Micah Kia's back. Then it was all this: tight end Morrell Presley (infected cut), linebacker Reggie Carter (eye infection), center Kai Maiava (ankle sprain), tight end Nate Chandler (knee) and linebacker Sean Westgate (concussion). I realize that they aren't life-threatening or career-ending injuries but come on. We are obviously doing something wrong.
Has osteogenesis imperfecta mutated and become an airborne, communicable disease?
I mean, it's not quite two QB's going down on consecutive plays, but geez!
Get rid of the turf & lay some grass out!!!!!!
This is no longer a coincidence! There is clearly something wrong with the shoes,the field,...something. We enlist Dohn to go investigative reporter and get to the bottom of this. Maiava is a short and LARGE dude with a low center of gravity and even his ankles are getting chewed up. WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!
Way too many lower leg and foot injurys are happening here and Dohn is the man to get to the bottom of it.