Delhomme-gate???

[PantherBrew]

Is it a real injury or is it..........

dunn dunnn dunnnnn.

THE PHANTOM INJURY....

Doesnt look like much bruising or swelling to me.

[Zod]

Tape 2 fingers together is what I used to do in basketball if I just stubbed one. No way is it actually broken

[guyinchesapeake]

I believe the NFL is pretty thorough when it comes to injury report requirements. I can't imagine Fox not playing him if he wasn't injured. I accept that he is hurt..

[err456]

looks serious!

[g5jamz]

Broke the scaphoid bone in my wrist in two...there was no swelling. The hand is odd...there are bones in there that are a PITA to heal due to the circulation being poor. I had no swelling...just felt like a sprain. You can easily break things and not get swelling. From my experience, I've had more swelling in sprains (ankles, knee) than I have any break I've had.

I'm not saying this isn't a phantom injury though, but any lack of swelling 3 days since the game doesn't tell me anything.

[2jakefansinva]

Are you sure they taped the right two fingers together?

[PantherBrew]

I played offensive line in highschool, and broken, sprained, and jammed fingers are a norm. My fingers seriously look retarded.

Theres no way there wouldnt be some kind of swelling or bruising. When you break a bone or sprain something it has to swell becuase there is alot of blood that gets released from a bone break. Also, since a sprain is the tearing of ligaments there is also going to be blood released.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Looks like I was right. The minority of Huddlers that thought this was a legit injury may apologize to me now.

[Matt Foley]

Why is the whole hand taped up?

[PhillyB]

i see we have a bunch of doctors in here

[CosmoGirl]

The middle finger does look slightly purple. And a break / deep bruise can take days to show discoloration on the skin. Plus, are you aware that your finger technically goes up to your wrist.

[Jase]

I don't know if the injury's legit or not, but it does look like there's swelling.

[Sam Mills Fan]

IF he's injured, you absolutely can't tell anything from that photo. If the fracture is lower on the finger, it would be under the gauze and you obviously can't see there. Of course, that could be why they put a mountain of gauze on his hand anyway. They could just say the fracture is buried under it and that his finger looks all gnarly and mangled underneath and we have no way of knowing because we can't actually see through the gauze.

[CRA]

I believe the NFL is pretty thorough when it comes to injury report requirements. I can't imagine Fox not playing him if he wasn't injured. I accept that he is hurt..

Not really. Smitty played a season with messed up ribs....he said that once the season was over and it wasn't on the injury report. There is a lot of room they have to use the injury report.

I'm sure there is something wrong w/ Jake's hand...when and how bad I doubt we get a real answer. It is clearly an out....Jake could play. Fox and Jake are using it as an out...as even Jake knows he ain't getting it done and shouldn't be playing.