Thomas Davis

[tarheelpride]

Any updates on him??? I pray that knee ain't as bad as it appeared to be. We need him out there....

[Pantherman]

So far no update. Could be tomorrow before we hear anything. But it doe not matter at this point. Our season is over and our playoff hopes are just abotu gone. Our playoff hopes our on a thin string.

[Chaos]

So far no update. Could be tomorrow before we hear anything. But it doe not matter at this point. Our season is over and our playoff hopes are just abotu gone. Our playoff hopes our on a thin string.

Yep, time to start tankin' and getting that draft pick closer to the top......

Ah, poo.

[Hairless Cat]

Doesnt matter?

I think it matters to the team and Thomas Davis.

Sorry Im a bit pissed about the game but saying an injury to one of our guys doesnt matter is f**kin idiotic!

You friggin guys kill me. No loyalty to poo

You dont deserve an NFL team

[tarheelpride]

So far no update. Could be tomorrow before we hear anything. But it doe not matter at this point. Our season is over and our playoff hopes are just abotu gone. Our playoff hopes our on a thin string.

So it doesn't matter that we might lose who is arguably our best defensive player this year for the entire year??? Dude, really...this is a person we're talking about. We're gonna fight until we're mathematically eliminated and even then, they're still playing for pride. To say it doesn't matter suggest the team and the "fans" have given up. Not cool.

But I am getting a bad vibe about this injury. I think he was putting together a ProBowl type season. He will surely be missed. We can't afford any more injuries

[KillerKat]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=tsn-nflteamreportpanther&prov=tsn&type=lgns

It's believed to be serious

[4dabirds]

I hope TD is not out for the year. That would suck for you guys and him as well.

[Proudiddy]

I fully expected it to be a multi-week injury just from the nature of it. Typically, when a guy goes down without any contact, something usually tore. I just hope at this point its an one of the ligaments besides the ACL, so it'll be less of a recovery/rehab time.

Who knows though, maybe I'm wrong, and hopefully it's a sprain and he'll be back in a few weeks.

[kingtarheel]

Great year to trade away a bloody first round pick!

[Proudiddy]

Observer's reporting that he's walking around on it and thinks he just hyperextended it, although that's no indication of an actual diagnosis... Sounds better than Gantt's report though.

http://blogs.charlotte.com/panthers/2009/11/davis-walking-on-injured-knee.html

[mountainpantherfan]

I haven't been on here that much as of late because I just had ACL reconstrustion surgory and my wife is an Athletic Trainer. She had me rewind the game so she could see what happened and said "ACL tear, he's going to be in the same boat as you." I really hope she is wrong....

[Proudiddy]

I thought so too at first, but usually if a guy is walking around on it within hours of the injury and if the trainers checked it and it wasn't really unstable, I think it may just be some kind of sprain.

I thinks it's odd that he was carted off eventually, yet he was able to walk on it after the game. That usually doesn't happen. I'm hoping for the best.

BTW, are we able to sign him to an extension during the season? Although I doubt we would be able to fit it under the current cap. And he's a RFA after the season, correct?

[mountainpantherfan]

RFA if there is no cap, UFA is there is.

I'm not sure about all ACL injuries but would guess that it is an ACL sprain because you're correct, it takes days before you can really walk on it if it was a tear. However, the doctor who performed my surgory is one of the doctors for the Steelers, I live near Pittsburgh, and he told me that Hines Ward tore his ACL in like his second season and has never missed a game or has had it repaired. So who knows?

[tarheelpride]

Well it's apparent he'll be out. I thought I saw Johnson on the injury report for this week too. Question to me is do we have anyone capable of taking over his spot? Conner? Anderson? Johnson? Obviously there will be a dropoff, but who gets that spot? And what kind of changes will we see to the defense???