Farwell, Mitchell lost for season
August 10th, 2008 – 5:41 PM by Judd ZulgadMANKATO — The Vikings lost both defensive end Jayme Mitchell and linebacker/special teams ace Heath Farwell because of torn anterior cruciate ligaments suffered in Friday’s preseason loss to Seattle. Farwell tore his right ACL in the first quarter. Mitchell, the second-team left end, tore his left ACL.
Coach Brad Childress announced the injuries following this afternoon’s practice. The Vikings did not practice Saturday. It was obvious Farwell’s injury was severe because he had to be helped off the field and was taken on a cart to the locker room. Mitchell, though, was able to get off the field.
While Farwell’s injury is a definite blow to the special teams, the Vikings still have plenty of depth behind him at linebacker. The defensive end position is a different story. Backup right end Brian Robison remains out after having surgery for a varicose vein in his leg last week.
“We’ll bring some [ends] in and work them out,” Childress said. “They are basically street free agents right now and everybody is looking for those guys. Those guys don’t just grow on trees. … We’ll still look at the waiver wire and see if we know somebody or have worked them out in the past or liked them but didn’t draft them or take them as a free agent. There is a lot of different meetings and some of those meetings are already going on and we’ve already got people in the pike that we’re going to try to bring in.”
Chip tried to catch Mitchell on his way out of the locker room but he declined to comment.
The Vikings depth chart at the end spots currently looks like this: left end — Ray Edwards and Leger Douzable. Right end — Jared Allen, Brian Robison, Otis Grigsby and Martail Burnett. Tackle Ellis Wyms also can play the end and could be shifted there in certain situations.
Farwell told reporters, including Chip, that he knew he was in trouble after his knee got rolled up on. “I knew it was a pretty serious injury,” Farwell said. “I’ve never been taken off on a cart in my whole life. I’ve never had knee injuries or any surgeries.”
In addition to Farwell and Mitchell, the Vikings had five players sit out today’s practice because of injuries suffered against Seattle. The list includes safety Michael Boulware (concussion); fullback Naufahu Tahi (bruised sternum); linebacker Heath Farwell (knee); tackle/guard Drew Radovich (left shoulder); guard Mike Jones (unknown); nose tackle Kenderick Allen (right wrist) and right tackle Marcus Johnson (right knee).
Tight end Garrett Mills (ankle) and cornerback Marcus McCauley (knee) both returned to the practice field and McCauley actually did quite a bit of work. Receiver Bernard Berrian did very little work today as Martin Nance got repeated reps with the first team. Safety Madieu Williams (neck) also was held back in several drills and replaced by Eric Frampton. Williams did not play Friday against the Seahawks.
Today’s practice was held in shorts and shells as the Vikings eased back into action after a day off. The team will be back to two-a-days on Monday with the first practice starting at 9 a.m.
65 Responses to "Farwell, Mitchell lost for season"
that really hurts our special teams. Farwell is the best special teams player I’ve seen since Chris Walsh
I was amazed to see what Jackson was able to do Friday night. He, hopefully, might prove me wrong. Now, it was only a couple series in an exhibition game, but he looked better than I ever thought he could.
Any news on Garrett Mills?
come on now … it was against a pretty VANILLA defense that was being used by Seattle … who played the game without Patrick Kerney and a handful of other defensive guys not even suiting up … if you look alot of these QBs have pretty good stats in these pre-season games who are just avg at best - all teams ,not just CHILIs, use VANILLA defenses … but I still wonder …even tho you are using a vanilla defense CHILI aren’t you supposed to still try and keep the other team from catching the ball every time they throw ?? …. another excuse from the mustached moron SHAVE THAT MUSTACHE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
The Leger Douzable era has begun. Write it down.
Vanilla offense, vanilla defense - what did you want him to do, thows INTs? Some of you guys would rather gouge your eyes out than give him any credit or acknowledge that just maybe he’s progressing after 16 games as a starter.
If Farwell were Hasslebeck he’d be saying that whoever rolled up on his knee did it on purpose.
BTW, the Vikes are screwed at LDE - they should have gotten Jason Taylor from Miami when they had the chance.
Also, Sage Rosenfels lit it up against Denver last night. From John McClain of the Houston Chronicle, “Rosenfels, who was 10-15 for 137 yds and 1 TD, made two exceptional throws — the touchdown to David Anderson perfectly timed just inside the goal line and the 41-yarder to Jacoby Jones. Jones was running a deep out route, and Rosenfels found him perfectly just before he went out of bounds. Very impressive.”
If the Vikes had pulled off trades for Taylor and Rosenfels, they’d have been SB contenders. Because they didn’t, they’ll probably finish at 8-8… 2nd or 3rd in the NFCN.
Sad but true…
pre season games are just glorified practices - as i stated above almost all QBs put up good #s in pre season cause all the defenses, not just the vikes, as Judd and Chili state, are all VANILLA….wait til the real season starts when he is blitzed and has to actually read a defense …oh,oh, he’s just starting on DR. SEUSS … this guy is coddled like no other …. let’s start the judging after the Green Bay game
40 for 60 - the decision on Mills may have been made long ago (film is everything).VS is making a strong (BIG LOSER)case in Mills’ absence and should be gone soon, plus Kleisasser is looking like he can catch, too. I think Chilly will let VS go, especially with Jack lookin’ good. That is his main project (it’s all about pride and projects). Also, we will be looking for DE and ST help. Cut that VS contract!
It amazes me how some of you don’t realize how ridiculous you sound. On the one hand you want to say Jackson gets no credit for his great performance Friday night, yet in the begining of training camp, every time it was reported that he threw some INTs in practice that day you got on here and railed on him, saying he sucked because of those INTs,,,,,IN PRACTICE. You’re talking out of both sides of your mouth. Plus…to the idiot declaring the Vikings should have gotten Rosenfels (Ummmm what has he done in his career?) and Taylor,,, what makes you think they had a chance to get him, just because Sid said so? It’s like you guys are hell-bent on finding a way to rip on anything the Vikings do, why don’t you go cheer for a team that does everything right and stay away from here you are idiots!
And…sdh13…..YES LET’s start the judging after the GB game, only thing is,,obviously you aren’t practicing what you preach, as it is clear you are judging already. So, pre-season stats don;t count,,, Jackson gets no credit last year as a first year starter for having an 8-4 record, what is the prejudice you people have for him. He has not been in the league long enough to hate him that much. He may be good he ma not,,,no one has enough brain cells to know at this point.
vikson…that is why we call those guys the pessimists…nothing can be done to make them happy…they are just bitter viking fans.
It depresses Jax Haters when he plays well but they console themselves with the hope that he’ll suk next week or he’ll suk in Gm. 1. It might even come down to “Just wait till next season, he’ll suk then!” Keep the dream alive Haters.
my judgements are not based on practices or vanilla pre season games … my judgements are on actual regular season NFL football games….and judged on what he did in the actual NFL game before the opposing team has gone into their prevent defense …cause any guy can pad his stats after a team goes into the prevent … keep suckin down the purple kool aid mommy makes for you every morning you TJOKE lovers ….I know you don’t ever get a lot of opportunities to get excited about TJOKE … but after a VANILLA pre season game and some 7 on 7 drills CHILI has him go through against that vaunted pass defense of his …. COME ON
sdh13, go find another QB and team to hate.
and TJOKE had or has nothing to do with the team being 8-4 with him as a starter … try AP as the reason for that record … and if the coach wasn’t a complete idiot by not playing or usung AP you could say that he was 12-0… so yeah ,that is the only thing you have about him to rave about but GET REAL
The jury will still be out another season on the TJack verdict. Priority number one right now is to replace the injured defensive players. These guys are definateley gone for the season, so contact guys like Darrion Scott if you have to. We are desperate.
vikson - I quit reading Sid’s column when I was in high school.
We offered a 3rd round pick for Rosenfels, soooo somebody other than me (and your buddy Sid) thought he had some talent.
What makes me think we could have gotten Taylor? Because he was on the trading block… dumbass.
i think Vikson is Sid
sdh,lets say jackson has a good game sept.8 & vikings win.are you going to stop calling him t-joke?
good question c. my guess is he’s hoping that doesn’t happen but if it does he’s still gonna call him t-joke.
jay … i don’t hope nothing … i’m not a homer sucking down the purple kool aid by the pitcher fulls .. sept 8 is when it starts to be judgement time again … if he does well it’s a start but can he be consistent and not have 1 good game ,4 bad ones , then finally a good one again and then 3 bad ones and so on …
Any chance the Vikes try to bring back Darrion Scott just for ONE YEAR? I know he’s a head case but it might help our depth.
[…] The Vikings‘ defense got a whole lot thinner yesterday with the announcement that both linebacker/special teams bad-ass Heath Farwell and backup left end Jayme Mitchell will be lost for the season with torn ACLs. Both injuries happened during Friday night’s preseason tilt with the Seahawks…need I reiterate my disdain for preseason? For the record…Farwell’s tear is in the right knee while Mitchell’s is in the left. This takes away our fourth linebacker and our second left end. And did I mention that our starting left end Ray Edwards has already been suspended once for steroids and has missed time this off-season with a bad back? I’m sure the team will be all over the waiver wires…not that they wouldn’t have been anyway. […]
ok, so based on your way of looking at numbers, if Jackson (It REALLY is very childish to put nicknames on someone like t-joke don’t you think?) had nothing to do with the 8-4 record, then if the Vikings start out 2-6 this year it has nothing to do with him that way either. You don’t get to have it both ways, and…offering a 3rd round pick for a QB who has done nothing yet does not exactly speak out that he is a very hot commodity. Also, just because Taylor was on the trading block doesn’t mean there was a chance to get him,,,,how many other nfl teams were clammoring to mortgage the future to get him. And lastly you idiot, just because those of us with common sense and without a bent toward making sensationalistic negative comments just for the sake of having a good time don’t do so, doesn’t mean we drank any kool-aid, I have not once said, or made any prediction about Jackson’s future other than he has done nothing so far to merit the hatred you idiots have for him. Again I say, if you knew as much about football as you think you do, teams would be calling and offering you a real job. Sage Rosenfels???????? Talk about drinking kool-aid.
Okay, T-Jax had a good game. This is what ALL Vikings are hoping for. Let’s see if he can continue this. As the team gets deeper in to pre-season he’ll have more playing time to show us his great arm strength and book smarts. But you T-Jock Supporters need to get a grip and come down to reality and quit saying he was 8-4 as a starter last season and really think about how much he actually contributed in those games.
Losing Farwell and Mitchell are big blows to the team right now. Let’s see if Pope, Alexander and Boulware can step up and win a spot on the Special Teams unit. Not sure what this team will do at DE. That’s a much larger issue for this team to address.
7:02 post should be…Vikings Fans
He contributed enough that he didn’t do as about half of the nfl qb’s do, by losing the game. Good god what does it take you people to see that, and again, since you aren’t reading the whole thing here, it has nothing to do with thinking he will or won’t be a good NFL QB, it has to do with the fact that there hasn’t been enough time or games to determine that,,,, some really good QB’s have had much worse starts in the first 12 games of their careers than Jackson has. Again I ask,,,what has he done to garner so much hatred? Keep in mind, most Packer fans hated Favre the first season he was with the Packers, no one though a QB from a so-so school would be headed for the HOF. And no, I’m not saying Jackson is headed to the HOF, I’m saying you guys just like spewing hate toward him for the sake of it.
Vikson = moron. Go buy another jersey…
How many games are enough games? When is enough, enough? T-Jax is rated in the lower 25% of starting QB’s imost QB categories. Half the QB’s? Jackson has played in 16 games as a starting NFL QB. Name some really good NFL QB’s that have shown as little progress? Drew Brees? Carson Palmer? Peyton Manning? Don’t just throw out “stuff” without anything to back up what you’re saying. That’s the issue I have with all that want to show Jackson support is that you provide nothing to back up what you say, you just throw crap out there and hope that it sticks.
Passing Yards = 24th in the NFL
Comp % = 26th
Rate = 28th.
No hatred here, he’s not showing that he’s anything more than a back up QB with a team that doesn’t have a quality NFL QB.
2MT hates Tarvaris. Didn’t you see how awesome he was on Friday night? Watch out Brady and Manning…
Anyone here ever played EA’s “Head Coach”? They’re bundling it with the Anniversary Edition of Madden and I want to know if it’s work the extra money. It looks and sounds kind of boring…
Bones - He did have some nice numbers. But then again, those Jackson Supporters are going to come back and say, hey, 7-10/8-10 and 111 yards with a TD and no INT’s equates to 28-40/32-40 444yards and 4 TD’s. Multiply that by 16 regular season games and he’s the MVP for 2008.
I was impressed by T-Jax on Friday night. But just like we can’t get overly concerned about the team’s pathetic attempt to play defense we can’t get overly excited over the performance of the quarterback. He gift-wrapped one for Marcus Truffant that the CB should’ve taken to the house…
I caught some of Sid’s radio progrum yesterday morning. I swear to God he asked Francisco Liriano if his arm felt good 10 times in 3 minutes…
Oh, and Bret Favre’s numbers his first year as the starting QB in GB:
302-471 - 3,227 18TD’s and 13INT’s with a 64.1% completion % and an 85.3 Rating. If T-Jax were even close to those numbers I’d be supporting him.
In T-Jacks first 16 games:
218-375 - 2386 11TD’s 16INT’s, 58.1 completion % and 69.0 Rating.
One really important thing to remember when assessing the performance of both T-Jax and the o-line: Preseason = no blitzing!
sdh13, you say your “judgements are not based on practices or vanilla pre season games, my judgements are on actual regular season NFL football games”.
Then why are using Rosenfels’ preseason stats as an argument that the Vikes should’ve signed him? I sincerely doubt we get to the SB with Sage Friggin’ Rosenfels. Please.
Look, Jackson hasn’t played at his highest level yet, that’s evident. Last week’s game was very encouraging, preseason or not. We all know the Vikes aren’t gonna come out against GB and throw on the first 11 plays.
Someone above mentioned “how much is enough?”. It’s this year, this is the year. If he starts throwing jump passes again and doesn’t do well, then he’s got to go. If the coaching staff continues to keep him after that, then that’s just ridiculous and I’ll start crying and moaning.
But, I don’t think it’s gonna get that far. I think Jackson’s gonna pull it off this year and do decent.
I was listening to the game on the radio and it sounded like Allen was held in Check by Walter Jones pretty much the entire time they lined up against each other. I also heard Winfield had 5 tackles in the 1st qtr. The Vikings weren’t able to stop the run which then opened up the pass.
No Phat Pat. No Madieu Williams. No Patrick Kerney. Pre-season……take it for what it’s worth.
While I was a bit disappointed with Allen’s performance, he did put some shifty moves on Jones to put some pressure on Hasselbeck.
Winfield’s coverage skills looked pretty weak Friday night. Cedric Griffin got completely burned on a touchdown pass. To be honest, the defense looked very similar to what we’re used to: no rush and poor coverage by the secondary.
Preseason = training camp in pads. It’s basically an opportunity for late round draft choices and rookie FAs to battle for the 6th linebacker and 5th wide receiver spots. Personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing preseason get cut to 2 games or eliminated altogether…
You getting Madden tomorrow King?
Garretts Mills made more progress toward being a starter during this weekend’s game than anyone. Fred realizes he didn’t play, but Visantes Shankdoh really helped his cause.
I’m getting it Wednesday.
I hated the Shiancoe signed last year. You don’t give top $$$ to a guy who has been a career backup.
Are you going to get the Anniversary Edition or the regular one?
What’s the difference besides the Coach thing?
* Contains the full version of Madden NFL 09
* Contains the full version of NFL Head Coach 09
* Contains exclusive Bonus Content
* Fully playable version of Madden NFL 93
* Retro playbooks featur the best plays from every year of Madden NFL Football history
Doesn’t sound like it’s worth the extra $30. Head Coach sounds really boring.
I’ll probably get the regular version.
JUDD:
The Darrion Scott named was mentioned a couple of times. Is there any chance of bringing him back? We are desperate for DE’s right now. No other team is full of choir boys and he might have some football left in him.
Do you really thinks coach Baldenee is going to bring back a player who held a plasic bags over his son’s head? Hitting another man with a sign pole is one thing, but harming a child? Not happening Kennys.
Bones, I hated the Shiancoe signing too. I thought at the time Chili’s trying to do what he did with Chester, sign someone who hasn’t gotten much playing time because he’s been behind a really good player, but there’s no evidence it’s gonna work this time because there’s no evidence Shiancoe’s that good.
As far as Jax I haven’t seen it as one side saying “He’s gonna be a great QB” or saying “WOW look how he lit it up in a preseason game”, I’ve just seen one side saying it’s unrealistic to judge any QB by their 1st year as a starter. Like you yourself said, not many good QBs are good their 1st year starting.
No-one should put much stock in pre-season play but it pisses me off when the first thing people say when plays okay is “Vanilla defense! Just watch what happens when he has to play for real!”
If he’s gonna develop into a good QB we should see the evidence this year. Personell people say the biggest jump for QBs is in their 2nd year as a starter. But I also wonder if some people are so locked into their position about him they’re not gonna be objective, they’re always gonna find something to nitpick about and keep insulting him.
Fred, I assume you’re not buying Darrion’s defense that it was just a game. He claims he was just trying to amuse the little tyke after he said “Hey Daddy, let’s play that fun game where you put a plastic bag over my head!” I believe you’re right, this may not be a successful defense.
[…] The Vikings‘ defense got a whole lot thinner yesterday with the announcement that both linebacker/special teams bad-ass Heath Farwell and backup left end Jayme Mitchell will be lost for the season with torn ACLs. Both injuries happened during Friday night’s preseason tilt with the Seahawks…need I reiterate my disdain for preseason? For the record…Farwell’s tear is in the right knee while Mitchell’s is in the left. This takes away our fourth linebacker and our second left end. And did I mention that our starting left end Ray Edwards has already been suspended once for steroids and has missed time this off-season with a bad back? I’m sure the team will be all over the waiver wires…not that they wouldn’t have been anyway. […]
[…] As feared, linebacker/special teams ace Heath Farwell is one of them, coach Brad Childress told reporters Sunday. But the other was a surprise: Defensive end Jayme Mitchell, who apparently suffered the injury on his first play from scrimmage Friday night in the Vikings’ 34-17 loss to the Seattle Seahawks. […]
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