Tigers QB Russell limited in practice Wednesday, October 19, 2005 By William Kalec and Jim Kleinpeter BATON ROUGE -- LSU quarterback JaMarcus Russell practiced Tuesday but did participate in passing drills because of an undisclosed injury. When asked Tuesday evening whether he'd be ready to make his sixth consecutive start of the season, Russell said, "hell yeah," and promised the injury would not limit him Saturday against Auburn. Russell spoke to the media and was not wearing any bandages or braces on either arm or shoulder. During the portion of practice open to the media, LSU coach Les Miles asked television cameras not to shoot any of the quarterbacks. Russell, dressed in full pads, took part in handoff sessions with the running backs but watched backup Matt Flynn run with the first team and freshman Ryan Perrilloux directed the second-team offense in the early sessions of team drills. Involved in a highly publicized quarterback derby with Flynn and Perrilloux throughout August, Russell wasn't announced as the starter until he trotted out with the offense for LSU's first drive of the opener at Arizona State. Since then, the redshirt sophomore has cemented his position, completing nearly 64 percent of his throws for 1,117 yards and seven touchdowns and four interceptions. Russell does not have a history of injury problems and has not missed a non-mop-up snap this season. Flynn spelled Russell for the final minutes of blowout wins at Mississippi State and Vanderbilt. http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-20/1129702233198130.xml
For sure it was a sore wrist, his family member (uncle) went to the Florida game and talked with him after the game at length, and he reported last Sunday he hurt his wrist on the fumble play. He finished the game with no problems and his uncle didn't indicate it was a serious injury, I think it has no effect on his play personally.
I'm sure he will be....and if not, then I guess a lot of those "anti-JaMarcus" fans will get their wish, and get to see how Flynn looks..... and believe me, if that's the case, and Flynn looks worse off than JaMarcus, I'm coming back here and I'm letting some people have it with double-barrels! :hihi: I'm just hoping that all of our players are healthy (Buster, Skyler, JaMarcus).
Miles said in the show tonight if MF had to come in, he knows the offense and can execute the throws and he doesn't expect to skip a beat. Coachspeak, I know, but at least he said it I happen to think MF will do a fine job, he'll do less big plays but more getting the ball to the offensive guys and letting them do the work. Frankly, that is not such a bad thing...
Flynn may very well be the saviour for our team(like we really need one), but I sure don't want to roll the dice against the banners.
