cousin like cousin

It seems Vick isn't the only NFC South QB getting a little skittish about leg injuries. His cousin, Saints QB Brooks seems to be playing the same, timid game:
http://www.nola.com/sportsflash/sai...ports-4/1093958647277821.xml&storylist=saints

QB still hampered by injured leg
8/31/2004, 8:18 a.m. CT
The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Saints quarterback Aaron Brooks wants to play. But he wants to make sure it's in a regular season game, not an exhibition.

If he had it his way he'd rest his injured right leg until the regular-season opener against the Seattle Seahawks on Sept. 12.

But Brooks got back on the practice field this week, putting in his first full workout since re-straining his quadriceps a week earlier.

"He's smart," coach Jim Haslett said. "He didn't take off and run today, but he threw the ball well. His feet were excellent. The timing part comes in the red zone, where they're all timing routes. That's where he's going to need the work."

The Saints would like to see Brooks play a series or two in the team's exhibition finale against the Miami Dolphins on Friday night at the Superdome.

Haslett said he did not know if Brooks would play Friday.

"We're treating the starters like they were playing a regular-season game. We'll determine who's going to play what, when and how long later in the week," Haslett said.

The leg injury has forced Brooks to miss two of the first three exhibition games and almost three weeks of practice.

Brooks said his thigh was feeling much better Monday than it did a week ago, when he missed four practices and sat out the Saints' 17-13 win at Chicago last Friday.

Still, he has reservations about a recurrence of the injury.

"I'm going to prepare like I'm going to go," Brooks said. "But practice-wise, I'm going to go take it easy, no matter what the trainer says or the head coach says. They don't know my body like I do. If I can't do anything, I'm not going to push it, whether they want to see it or not."

 

Keep up the good work TotalPackage.

 

I can't in my wildest dream imagine Jake saying those words to Fox. " I'm going to pratice when I feel like it reguardless of what the coach or trainer says".

 

They'd have to treat Jake like they do Morgan - hide his helmet & sit on him to keep him off the field.

 

I thought that was Davis who they did that to last year? Maybe both of them?

 

i'm quite pleased to hear that our guys want to play so much they have to hide their helmets. that's so awesome.

 

I am glad someone appreciates what I do
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You da man! :applause: