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Injured receiver says he'll be ready to play against Giants after bye week
By Marla Ridenour
Beacon Journal sports writer
Published on Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008
BEREA: Receiver Donte' Stallworth could be the biggest beneficiary of the bye week.
Yet to play after pulling his right quadriceps in pregame warmups for the opener Sept. 7, Stallworth felt he was ''pretty close'' to being ready for Sunday's victory at Cincinnati, but ''it just wasn't quite there.''
The Browns are off until a Monday Night Football appearance Oct. 13 at home against the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants.
''I didn't feel like I was really ready to beat anyone,'' Stallworth said. ''I can run straight ahead fine, but the cutting and [getting] in and out of my breaks wasn't quite there yet. My biggest thing was trying to be smart and not become a liability out there or injure myself further. Now with this bye week, I get another two weeks and I'll be ready to roll this game.
''I'm excited to take my cheerleading outfit off and put on a Cleveland Browns uniform.''
Playing for his fourth team in four years, seven-year veteran Stallworth came from the New England Patriots in March. General Manager Phil Savage said when Stallworth was hurt that the medical staff said he would miss two to four weeks.
Stallworth said he's felt ''terrible'' being inactive.
''I know it's probably not the right thing to say, but I felt like I wasn't even part of the team,'' he said.
Vickers OK
Fullback Lawrence Vickers said his left eye was a little sore but not seriously injured after he was hit with a beer bottle after a 1-yard touchdown run by Jamal Lewis in the fourth quarter. Vickers even joked, ''It wasn't that bad, but it's messing up my modeling career.''
''I was in the end zone and turned over to see if it was a touchdown. The bottle flew out of the stands,'' Vickers said. ''It hit the top of my helmet and the top of the bottle came across my eye and I had beer all over my face. I smelled like beer for the rest of the game.
''I thought maybe somebody poked me in the eye. I was smelling beer, I looked on the ground and that's when the ref said, 'Are you OK?' I was like, 'Oh, my God,' and I kind of snapped because why would somebody throw a bottle on the field?
''When I jumped up, I'm looking at the ref and I'm kind of angry and upset. He was like, 'I can't do anything about it.' I didn't see anybody running over there to try to see who did it.''
Vickers said security ''found one guy, but it wasn't the guy who did it.''
Brownies
Savage said that when Ryan Tucker returns from May hip surgery, possibly against the Giants, it will be ''at tackle or guard.'' He might bump Kevin Shaffer out of the right tackle spot, with Rex Hadnot at right guard. . . . Savage didn't seem optimistic about strong safety Sean Jones, who underwent arthroscopic knee surgery Sept. 11, saying ''it was more of a six-week proposition.'' . . . Coach Romeo Crennel said defensive lineman Shaun Smith will have surgery on his left hand today for what Smith called a fracture. . . . Crennel said Shaffer suffered ''probably a mild concussion'' against the Bengals and that tight end Kellen Winslow had his knee banged up and was being evaluated.
Marla Ridenour can be reached at mridenour@thebeaconjournal.com. Read her Browns blog at http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/browns/.
BEREA: Receiver Donte' Stallworth could be the biggest beneficiary of the bye week.
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Bluffton, SC
Posted 01:28 PM, 09/30/2008
Hope somebody found the ******* that threw the bottle and turned them over to the authorities. What a friggin moron.
Posted 07:56 PM, 09/30/2008
Will two weeks be enough for Anderson to rebuild chemistry with Stallworth? Because I'd hate to see that excuse trotted out there.
Shawnee Hills, OH
Posted 10:03 PM, 09/30/2008
Glad Stallworth feels better. Maybe he will fully recover in time to sign with his fifth team in five years next winter. Does he feel as terrible as the Browns offense looks?
Posted 09:10 AM, 10/01/2008
The Vickers story brings a whole new meaning beer goggles...
Posted 09:18 AM, 10/01/2008
people come back quicker from torn acl's these days then stallworth and his injured quad. hopefully stallworths presence will be enough to get the offense going. i think they browns need to focus on running the ball more jamal needs to carry it 25 times a game.
akron, oh
Posted 10:44 AM, 10/01/2008
they are not saying much about joey j have i missed something? we need him
Posted 12:06 PM, 10/01/2008
Browns fans are nutty, throwing beer on a player...GEEEZ
Posted 10:13 PM, 10/01/2008
^^
the game was at cincinatti duh
