*** DOLPHINS NEWS ***
Oct 03, 1997: -- Mare' Injures Hamstring --
** Mare' Injures Hamstring **
The Dolphins announced yesterday that kicker Olindo Mare'
strained his left hamstring on Wednesday night while doing stretching
exercises following practice and is now listed as questionable for
Sunday's game against the Chiefs.
Mare' missed practice yesterday and may not be able to play on
Sunday. His hamstring, which is on his non-kicking leg was reported
to be so painful on Thursday that he couldn't even sit in his car
comfortably on his way to work.
As a precaution, the Dolphins are flying in last year's kicker
Joe Nedney for a workout today and if Mare' doesn't improve
significantly by the end of the day today, Nedney could be signed
tomorrow to kick on Sunday.
Other scenarios include using punter Kyle Richardson to handle
the kicking duties, although he was so bad in practice on Thursday as
a field goal kicker that they didn't even let him finish the practice.
Richardson, however, may be able to handle the kickoff duties.
If the Dolphins do feel they have to sign Nedney, they will
have to waive a player to stay under the 53 man roster limit. The
most likely candidates for that are punter John Kidd, who has not been
able to play most of this year due to his own pulled hamstring and
fullback Stanley Pritchett, who may be placed on injured reserve.
Pritchett was originally scheduled to be out 2-3 months, but
his knee is not responding as well to treatment as the team had hoped
it would, so he may become the latest player to be placed on injured.
** Lamar Thomas May Play **
In other news, it looks like Lamar Thomas will get his first
playing time of the season this weekend and rookie Brian Manning will
spend his first Sunday on the inactive list. Thomas has looked
especially impressive this week in practice, while Manning has had
some trouble running his routes.
According to the Herald, the Dolphins will only have 4 wide
receivers on the active roster this Sunday, and if Thomas is active,
that could mean that Qadry Ismail may also not see action this Sunday.
My Comments:
I have only one thing to say about this....
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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Curt Fennell,
curt@phins.com, DOLFAN in New Rochelle (almost)
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