Jenkins reinjures ankle, has bone spur

[dbair1967]

Says he intends to play through them:

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Mike Jenkins started and played the first half despite tweaking his right ankle.

Jenkins, who missed a week of training camp after spraining that ankle, said he felt pain in it during pregame warmups. He does not expect to miss any more practice time, but Jenkins is prepared to deal with a nagging injury the rest of the season.
"Right now, I'm just playing through pain," Jenkins said. "There's nothing I can do at this point. What I have is a bone spur, and there's nothing you can do about it. I'm just going to have to play through pain pretty much the whole season."

Judging on tonight's rotation, Jenkins appears to have a firm grasp on the starting job after what was billed as a camp competition with fellow second-year CB Orlando Scandrick. Jenkins said the fact that Scandrick has proven himself as a starting-caliber player won't affect his decision on whether to continue to play on a sore ankle.

"I won't go out there and jeopardize my leg just because of a starting position. You've definitely got to take care of your body no matter what."

 

[Boyzmamacita]

A nagging injury for the rest of the season. Not good. Just when I thought we got out of this game without any injuries...

 

[TheSport78]

Wouldn't it make sense to have Scandrick as the starter then and have Jenkins come in on the Nickel so he doesn't heavily risk further injuring the ankle?

 

[Everlastingxxx]

Whatever, Scan has earned the starting spot. Jenkins couldnt hold his jock.

 

[Bluestang]

Well considering his performance tonight it seemed like he was OK and covered decent as well. The missed coverage that led to the Gage TD looked like he didn't press him good enough and Hamlin was late on the ball. It still is concerning but I think he should be serviceable this year.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Wow... Not exactly the news I wanted to hear.

 

[BIGDen]

Wouldn't it make sense to have Scandrick as the starter then and have Jenkins come in on the Nickel so he doesn't heavily risk further injuring the ankle?

I totally agree. I have no idea what they're thinking. Scandrick appears better to me and now you throw in this nagging injury crap...it seems like a no-brainer.

 

[CowboyWay]

It could be him prepping the fans as a reason to jump out of the way when he sees Ahmad Bradshaw coming his way in week one against Tampa.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Oh crap. Bone spurs. That sucks. He'll be dealing with that all season long until he can have them taken care of in the offseason.

How long is the recovery time for a person after they clean something like that up? If it's only a few weeks wouldn't it make more sense to get it done now, miss the last part of the preseason and maybe a couple games at the start, let Scandrick hold down the starting spot, and comeback at 100%?

 

[UnoDallas]

Well considering his performance tonight it seemed like he was OK and covered decent as well. The missed coverage that led to the Gage TD looked like he didn't press him good enough and Hamlin was late on the ball. It still is concerning but I think he should be serviceable this year.

what - that was Jenkins fault should have pressed him more until Hamlin was there - they guy was wide open from the get go

 

[juck]

He looked bad tonight.Got burned twice.

 

[28 Joker]

Mike Jenkins:

O.k. I went back and looked at the game log and compared it to what I saw.

If you toss out the play in the redzone, there were 5 passes directly at Jenkins in man coverage.

1. Bomb to Nate Washington - Jenkins won/Great coverage/play 0 yards
2. 3-8 Dallas 32 10 yard catch/1st down
3. 1-10 (next play) 5 yard catch
4. Bomb to Kenny Britt (line of scrimmage was Tenn 33, the ball was broken up by Jenkins at the Dallas 25.) That was a major league bomb. Young has a very strong arm. 0 yards
5. Bomb to Kenny Britt down the left sideline. Jenkins had him covered like a blanket.

That is 3 bombs thrown at him, and Jenkins won all three. Those were the plays that mattered. Mike Jenkins stopped three bombs. I told you guys Tennessee would go deep, and they picked on Jenkins. Jenkins won the battle.

Again, if you grade him on a little curve, he gave up 15 yards in those 5 plays. Those were the man to man plays.

5 attempts for 15 bloody yards.

 

[Hostile]

I thought he looked good tonight except for the TD. He was expecting double coverage deep but he has to hit the receiver to jam him first.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

He looked bad tonight.Got burned twice.

Scan should have started. But because Jenkins is a 1st rounder...pft.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Jenkins had a tough night to me...

 

[28 Joker]

I thought he looked good tonight except for the TD. He was expecting double coverage deep but he has to hit the receiver to jam him first.

I agree with you, and that is easily correctable.

I thought he looked great.

I guess Jenkins is going to join Newman's club.

By the way, Newman looked great, too.

Collins wanted to go deep on him one time, but when he looked over there, Newman had his guy locked down.

Jenkins can play through the bone spur. He looked dang good tonight.

Perhaps, if Henry and Pacidiot didn't take his snaps away last year, he would have been perfect.

It would help if the special teams would quit giving them the ball on our 30.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

It's funny cause if he jams up that receiver, an Hamlin is able to get over the top in time that way, and either the play is broken up, picked, or Collins went elsewhere I'm willing to bet the vast majority of people here would say he had a great night.

But he screwed up, badly I'll agree, one time and all the sudden he struggled and had a bad night. Despite the fact that they tried to throw deep on him 3 times and he allowed 0 catches on those three plays and allowed all of 15 yards on 2 completions that were directly on him outside of that.

1 play is all it takes around here for people to go from a guy having a good/great night to a bad/struggling night.

 

[bbgun]

So was the spur caused by the training camp injury?

 

[2much2soon]

Wow, I figured this board would be all over Jenkin's performance.

He looked completely lost on the TD pass when he stayed in the short zone to cover...no one?

He broke up the bomb only because it was severely under thrown. He did show his recovery speed on that play but who knows if he could of made up the ground if he was facing a competent QB/WR combination instead of Vince Young and whoever.

For all the talk about this guy "learning his lessons" from last year, I expected to see more polish.

He still looks like a guy who is convinced he has Deon Sander'ish athlete ability and can get by on that alone.

 

[jacks1]

It could be him prepping the fans as a reason to jump out of the way when he sees Ahmad Bradshaw coming his way in week one against Tampa.

...ummm, I think Bradshaw plays for the Giants.