How the Locals were Looking on Sunday in the NFL:
Cincinnati Bengals LB Germaine Pratt, from High Point Central HS/N.C. State had 1 Total Tackles/1 Solo Tackle/Pass Deflection, in the Bengals’ 41-24 victory over the Las Vegas Raiders…
LB Akeem Davis-Gaither, from Thomasville HS/Appalachian State, with 2 Tackles for the Bengals in their win over the Raiders…
Chicago Bears:WR Keenan Allen(Northern Guilford HS/California) had four receptions for 36 yards in the Bear’s 29-9 loss to the Arizona Cardinals…
Pittsburgh Steelers:DL Larry Ogunjobi(Ragsdale HS/Charlotte) Steelers with BYE Week…
Detroit Lions:DJ Reader(Grimsley HS/Clemson) DJ Reader did not play on Sunday for the Lions in their 24-14 win over the Green Bay Packers…Here is his injury status:D.J. Reader | DL (Unknown)…Injury:Rest…Practice Status:Full Participation in Practice
Detroit Lions:Emmanuel Moseley(Dudley HS/Tennessee) Lions placed Moseley (pectoral) on injured reserve and he remains sidelined indefinitely…
Detroit Lions:Hendon Hooker(Dudley HS/Virginia Tech/Tennessee) Hooker did not see action on Sunday in the Lions 24-14 win over the Green Bay Packers…
LA Rams:Joshua Karty(Western Alamance HS/Stanford) Karty was 2-2 on his field goals and also 2-2 on his PAT Kicks, for 8 points for the Rams, in their 26-20 Overtime win over the Seattle Seahawks…Karty was warming up for a shot at the game-winning field goal kick, but the Rams got a TD pass to win it in OT…
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The Carolina Panthers got a rare win on Sunday, 23-22 over the New Orleans Saints, but the the focus of the game was not necessarily the Panthers victory, but more so, the Saints WR Chris Olave being hit by the Carolina Panthers’ DB Xavier Woods, and the concussion that Olave suffered on that hit…Olave sustained his second concussion of the season….
from www.espn.com:
Former New Orleans Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas appeared to blame Saints’ QB Derek Carr for Olave’s concussion in posts to his X account.
“Dude. Scary and panic and just throw the ball,” Thomas wrote among a series of tweets about Carr, “Get him the f out of here he is so ass.”
Saints wide receiver Chris Olave sustained his second concussion of the season Sunday.
Thomas, who was released by the Saints in March after eight seasons, has taken shots at Carr on social media several times this year. He wrote in January that he was “set up by a bad ball,” referring to a season-ending injury that occurred after he caught a pass from Carr in November 2023.
Thomas also said at the time that the Saints weren’t trying to get him the ball. Carr addressed Thomas’ tweets in an interview in February and said that he wished Thomas would have called him instead. Carr said at the time that he thought Thomas was frustrated because Olave was getting the majority of the first-team reps in practice last season.
“Dude tried to lie and say I was jealous of them making Chris WR1 whole time he can’t even get him a decent ball. He need his ass whooped,” Thomas wrote Sunday.
Carr, following the loss to the Panthers, said “he has love” for Thomas but “didn’t really care” for his comments.
“I’ve had so many teammates over the years and he’s like the one dude that didn’t get along with me. And I don’t know what I did to him. I don’t know why he feels that way. I’m sorry for whatever he’s dealing with to make him feel like he’s got to do that,” Carr said. “I don’t know. But he’s never called me during any of this. My phone number has never changed. I’ve in fact called him on different occasions. Just to try. And sometimes you can try as hard as you want and it just doesn’t work out. And that’s OK, so I don’t know why he feels any type of way. I didn’t see it. I won’t see it. Because I always ignore everything, good and bad. I try to ignore everything. It’s unfortunate. Especially coming from a player like that. But I wish him the best. I hope he gets on a team and does what he wants to do and loves it.”
Carr added: “It’s just something I would never do to a teammate. Because it was single high, the ball went to where we talked about it going and Chris got hit in the head unfortunately. That happens in our game, and I would never do it on purpose. I didn’t throw him into a bad look. … When it comes to the football aspect of it, I really don’t have an answer for it. But when it comes to the person part of it, I just hope he gets what he’s looking for.”