After sustaining an ankle injury on the first play of the second quarter Monday night, Redskins tight end Chris Cooley will reportedly miss the remainder of 2009. The Pro Bowl tight end will finish his season with 29 catches (a career low), 332 yards and two touchdowns, as he hauled in a pair of passes for 21 yards before leaving with the injury Monday night in the Redskins' 27-17 loss to the Eagles. Head coach Jim Zorn would not confirm that Cooley's year is over, but did note that Cooley will "be out for a while."
""He's got a break in his ankle," Zorn said. "It's on the inner side of his tibia. I haven't seen the X-rays yet, but we're quite certain it's broke or fractured in some way; we'll have a better diagnosis tomorrow."
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Losing Cooley is a big blow to the Redskins' already maligned offense, which has struggled to score points all season and is now on its second play-caller. He will be replaced in the lineup by the young Fred Davis.
The Redskins may not lose a ton in terms of pass-catching when it comes to inserting Davis for Cooley. Davis is more athletic, and finished Monday night with the best stat-line among Redskins' receivers. He caught eight passes for 78 yards and a touchdown. Quarterback Jason Campbell definitely appeared to like throwing Davis' way.
On the other hand, the biggest problem for the Redskins' offense thus far this season has been blocking, and Cooley is a much more adept blocker than Davis. It will be interesting to see what the 'Skins do in running situations moving forward, because Davis can't help to clear the path very well for Clinton Portis. And, obviously, if they only play Davis in passing situations, they are tipping off the defense that they are passing. Thus, it's easy to see why the Cooley injury is such a big blow for the Redskins, who are already going through an incredibly disappointing 2009 campaign.
Washington is currently 2-5 and will have a bye in Week 8. They will travel to Atlanta to face the 4-2 Falcons in Week 9.
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WELL THERE YA GO Snyder and Vinny..Your idea of changing the play caller CERTAINLY worked.. And now it goes from BAD to WORSE with Chris Cooley most probably for the rest of the season WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO NOW (YOU WHO KNOW IT ALL UPSTAIRS)..Snyder and Vinny, your interfierance (ON THE FIELD) in the way a team plays HAS COST US..You the people calling for Coach Zorns head,can you see things more clearly now,I hope now you can see that it was in fact the 2 people i have mentioned and not Coach Jim Zorn that has made this team bad so far this season..As i live in Ireland im not so bad in the sense i cannot go to games like you fans on the other side of the big pond BUT you fans who do go to the Skins games have more power than you realise.. You pay the pay checks all the way to the top (VINNY AND SNYDER) so its time to make a stand in my opinion..Ive been a avid Skins fan for the past 25 maybe 30 years and as real fans do i will stand behind the team BUT NOT THE HIGHER BEINGS THEY THINK THEY ARE ABOVE..Hailskins Best Regards Steve Dublin Ireland
With all the heat i mentioned above i forgot to mention..Chris hopefully its not as bad as first thought WE NEED YOU ON THIS TEAM MY FRIEND, speedy recovery Chris all the best Steve Dublin Ireland
I hope Chris recovers quickly from his injury but sure wish the Skins would start playing some real football. I miss my team.
I AGREE WITH STEVE..THE HIGHER UP'S NEED TO KEEP OUT OF THE MIX!AND THE NEW CALL PLAYER..HMMMM, HE MIGHT WANT TO GO BACK TO CALLING BINGO! IT ISNT ZORN WHO IS THE PROBLEM, IT'S THE OWNER PUTTING HIS NOSE IN WHERE IT DOESNT BELONG..GO AWAY SYNDER! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM OUR BELOVED SKINS WITH ALL THIS MESS? AND I AM SORRY, BUT THEY NEED TO TAKE MR.OVER RATED BUSTED UP CAMPBELL OUT AND PUT COLLINS IN THE GAME!!AND NOW COOLEY, O MY! THE TEAM HAS LOST THEIR HEART AND EXCITEMENT FOR THE GAME AND YOU CAN THANK WORTHLESS SNYDER FOR THAT!I MISS THE SKINS I'VE LOVED FOR 35 YEARS!!BUT A TRUE FAN I'LL ALWAYS BE!
Too bad play-calling was not the issue last night. I thought the play-calling was decent and I could tell this was not Jim Zorn making the calls. You have missed blocking assignments, fumbles and a muffed punt at the most critical moment of the game. It is quite obvious the problem is poor execution and NOT the plays being called. Jason missed a sure touchdown because he checked down too quickly, fumbled a shotgun snap that was not that bad and held the ball too long and got stripped. The Eagles got 13 points off turnovers. Quite a different game if we take care of the ball. Don't you think? The defense got off the field on 3rd down and pressured McNabb. We need to get out there and execute!
Hopefully Chris isn't hurt that bad and he recovers soon, BUT I guess if not he'll have plenty of time to paint pictures of himself in tight nut-hugger shorts!!
I believe the skins' main problem starts with coaching, all the coaching,, they look ill prepared with no rythm. They hit a couple nice plays and put together a decent drive only to be shut down by poor O line protection, bad snaps, and broken plays.
Again it starts with ownership- hire a GM who knows football to run your team and bring in the right personell. Dan Snyder has alot more money than he does "football" brains.
Go Steelers!
I Definatly put alot of the blame on Zorn.But rememeber we have no O line.You can'twin ithout an O-line,period.No Qb in this league could carry this team without an O line,none.
Chris you will be missed! My thoughts and prayers are with you Chris to heal fast! The Skins looked so bad last night it was so hard to watch my team fall apart. The defense can only do so much come on... I have been a fan for many many years and it hurts to watch the players and fans go through this. Fire Zorn and Vinny this sucks and we can't take it and please get rid of Campbell he is the worst... This is the worst season I can remember ever and it hurts and it sucks and I want it to end....
at the beginning of the season i was a believer that jason campbell was the guy here and this was going to b a break out season....now i just cant wait til the end of the season so he and zorn just get out of here and we ca hav a fresh start with a new qb at the helm and mike shanahan or jon gruden coachin us up...2 bad colt is injured becuz now wudv been a good time to giv him a chance to c was hes got in the regular season..any1 got any ideas on who the next qb will b?u think it will b thru the draft or thru free agency?