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(Message started by: Callie on Aug 7^th, 2004, 1:34am)

Title: SHIPP OUT TWO MONTHS!
Post by Callie on Aug 7^th, 2004, 1:34am

It's in the Cardinals Off Season Thread - but just in case you're drafting this weekend and don't get there:

Aug 7, 12:47 AM (ET)

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - Arizona Cardinals running back Marcel Shipp will be sidelined at least two months after dislocating his left ankle during an intrasquad scrimmage Friday night.
Shipp got caught underneath a pile during a routine running play and got his left leg wrenched in the artificial turf at Northern Arizona University's Skydome.

After several minutes on the turf, Shipp was loaded on a cart and led off the field.

The injury was not as bad as it initially appeared to be, Cardinals coach Dennis Green said.

"It did not break through the skin, which means it probably does not need an operation," Green said.

Shipp led the Cardinals with 830 yards rushing last year, including games of 165 and 141 yards.

"He took a bad spill and it don't look good right now," Emmitt Smith said of Shipp. "But he's young and resilient and he's in great shape.

"I've been on football fields for a long time and I've seen some bad things happen, but not many to people I've been close to. The kid is a like a brother to me. Watching him go down is like watching a brother go down. It hurts."

Title: Re: SHIPP OUT TWO MONTHS!
Post by The_Dog on Aug 7^th, 2004, 10:02am

All this means is that it is going to take Jarrett Payton that much longer to get the rushing title back in the Payton family where it belongs. [smiley=laugh.gif]