Cowboys WR Roy Williams Injured

[Bill Lundberg]

Coach Wade Phillips revealed Monday that Roy E. Williams damaged cartilage in three of his ribs during the Cowboys' Week 4 loss.

Williams' status for Week 5 is in doubt, and the Cowboys could hold him out with a bye coming in Week 6. Williams' ribs are not cracked, but he's likely in a considerable amount of pain. The $54 million receiver is on pace for just 44 catches and 856 yards through four weeks. Should he miss a game, Sam Hurd would see more snaps opposite the Pat Crayton/Miles Austin rotation. Oct. 5 - 2:59 pm et
Source: Dallas Morning News

[KCrockaholic]

LOL

[KCUnited]

We need to put a corner and a LB on Witten.

[Quesadilla Joe]

[ziggysocki]

Originally Posted by KnowMo2724

"Oh hey thanks for the pass Tony! Ouch, ****!!!! My ribs!!!"

[Bill Lundberg]

Originally Posted by KnowMo2724

This is obviously a personal foul for helmet to helmet hit.

Signed,

BJ112

[WhitiE]

Originally Posted by Bill Lundberg

This is obviously a personal foul for helmet to helmet hit.

Signed,

BJ112

no shit dude Roy should have been flagged.... his face mask obviously comes down and hits the top of dudes helmet.... come on refs!!!!!!!

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by KnowMo2724

Did this draw a PF penalty?

[BryanBusby]

Originally Posted by Dartgod

Did this draw a PF penalty?

I don't recall any flags being tossed, but the talk show commissioner will certainly issue a fine.

[PunkinDrublic]

I think Romo can be a good QB but he loves the limelight too much. That's the problem with the present day Cowboys they want to party like the Cowboys of the 90s and then they choke like the Bills in the post season

To give you an example, Miles Austin had a birthday party at this swank Dallas nightspot earlier this year. They hired playboy models to attend this party and it was well attended by local celebreties (never got my invitation). It made me laugh at thought of a third rate WR partying like he's a superstar.

[orange]

Originally Posted by Dartgod

Did this draw a PF penalty?

Owners adopt four safety-related rule changes
By Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel
March 24, 2009


Dana Point, Calif. -- It's nothing akin to the introduction of instant replay or the "K" ball, but the NFL owners have approved four minor rule changes submitted by the league's competition committee.

All four rules were made with the safety of players in mind.

Rule Change No. 1: No blindside blocks in which there is contact to the player's head.
It will now be a 15-yard penalty if "the initial force of the contact by a blocker's helmet, forearm or shoulder is to the head or neck area" if the blocker is moving toward his own endline and he approaches the opponent from behind or the side.

In simple terms, no crackback blocks to the head. Examples are receivers blocking down on linebackers and defenders blocking back on interception or fumble returns. Under this rule, it still appears that Warren Sapp's block on Chad Clifton was legal, but I'll check later with vice president of officiating Mike Pereira when he has his officiating seminar later today.

Rule Change No. 2: No more kickoff wedges.
It will be a 15-yard penalty if players intentionally form a wedge of three or more players on a kickoff return. No more than two receiving team players can join together shoulder-to-shoulder within 2 yards of each other and block for the returner.

Rule Change No. 3: Unnecessary roughness has been expanded to include shots to a defenseless receiver's head.
The amendment states, a penalty will be called "If the initial force of the contact by a defender's helmet, forearm, or shoulder is to the head or neck area of a defenseless receiver who is catching or attempting to catch a pass." This would presumably cover the hit Steelers safety Ryan Grant had on Baltimore running back Willis McGahee in the AFC Championship game.

Rule Change No. 4: No bunch formations on kickoffs.
There must be at least four players on each side of the kicker and at least three of those must be lined up between the hash mark and the out of bounds line, one of which must be outside the yard-line number.

What the rule does is prevent teams from bunching up players on onsides kicks.

Look for an update to this story later in which I"ll have remarks from Pereira.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/archiv...ate=03-31-2009

[Quesadilla Joe]

Originally Posted by Dartgod

Did this draw a PF penalty?

No flags were thrown.... Probably because DJ Williams didn't hit him in the head.

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by KnowMo2724

Now how the **** wasn't that a penalty? Talk about a defenseless receiver, and Page gets flagged for a text book hit on a guy with the ball? You can see him lowering his head and going right into a guy that never had a chance on the ball...

[PunkinDrublic]

Originally Posted by Saccopoo

Now how the **** wasn't that a penalty? Talk about a defenseless receiver, and Page gets flagged for a text book hit on a guy with the ball? You can see him lowering his head and going right into a guy that never had a chance on the ball...

Denver has gotten away with being a dirty team for years. Why should the NFL hold them accountable now. Also Orton is not a good QB a lot of those completions are due to Brandon Marshall and Royal being such badass recievers. That one big reception where Marshall caught over the Cowboy CBs head was way too high but Marshall is such a freak of an athlete he was able to pull it down.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by PunkinDrublic

. Also Orton is not a good QB a lot of those completions are due to Brandon Marshall and Royal being such badass recievers.

That's funny. Try actually watching guys play instead of talking out of your ass. Buckhalter is a Running Back, by the way. I figured you wouldn't know.

Receiving	REC	YDS	AVG	LG	TD
B. Marshall	16	219	13.7	51	2
J. Gaffney	11	154	14.0	49	0
D. Graham	9	112	12.4	24	0
E. Royal	8	58	7.3	12	0
C. Buckhalter	8	96	12.0	30	0
T. Scheffler	6	71	11.8	29	1
B. Stokley	6	157	26.2	87	1
K. Moreno	4	33	8.3	11	1
P. Hillis	1	6	6.0	6	0
TEAM	69	906	13.1	87	5
OPP	76	724	9.5	53	0