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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (14667)	11/26/2006 12:25:27 PM
From: richardred	Respond to of 91387

considerations >Ravens CB Chris McAlister vs. Steelers WR Hines Ward Ward is listed as questionable with a knee injury, but if Pittsburgh's leading receiver does play this weekend, the physical McAlister would likely draw Ward's assignment. The Steelers wideout is known as a reliable pass-catcher, with 53 receptions for 753 yards and six touchdowns on the season, but he also is a sound downfield blocker for speedy running back Willie Parker. >Favre Confident He'll Be Fine by Mike Spofford, Packers.com posted 11/22/2006 Quarterback Brett Favre is still feeling tingling in the last two fingers of his throwing hand, and as of Wednesday afternoon he can't throw the football exactly how he'd like to. But he says there's no pain in his elbow, and he expects to play on Monday night at Seattle and keep his consecutive starts streak in tact. "At this point I'm confident I'll be OK," Favre said at his news conference. Favre took a shot to the ulnar nerve in his right elbow while getting sacked last Sunday against New England late in the second quarter and missed the rest of the game. Favre revealed on Wednesday that his elbow was knocked by the cast on Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi's right hand. With Tully Banta-Cain holding Favre's legs, Bruschi finished the sack with an upper body tackle. Television angles didn't show Bruschi's casted hand hitting Favre's elbow and only showed the elbow hitting the ground as Favre went down. "There was nowhere to go, and I just saw him coming and tried to protect the ball, and when he came in, the cast on his right hand caught me just perfect on the nerve," Favre said. "The cast kind of makes more sense, because otherwise I thought it was like he poked me or a knuckle or something caught me. As bad as it felt I figured he had to break a knuckle or something, but he had a cast on his hand." Favre said he wanted to come back in, particularly because the injury wasn't painful, but when he tried to make a couple of throws during halftime he simply couldn't get a strong enough grip on the ball. "I just said there's no way," Favre said. "As much as I would love to go in and play, I'm going to make a bad situation worse. That was very difficult because mentally I felt fine. "Today, it feels better. There is a bruise, and a little swelling. But as far as the pain goes, this is as minor an injury as I've had to even question whether or not I would play." Sunday marked only the sixth time during Favre's streak of 231 consecutive starts (251 including playoffs) that he couldn't finish a game due to injury. Interestingly, three of the previous five times, Favre had extra time to heal for the next game, just like he has one extra day this week with the Seattle game on Monday night. In 2002 (knee) and 2004 (concussion), the games in which he was injured came right before the bye week. Also, in 1994 (hip), his injury came on a Thursday night game, and the Packers didn't play again until the following Monday night, 11 days later. "I've been through this, not this type of injury, but I have been through this before," Favre said. "I think it's good we have an extra day for it to heal as well as to rest." Favre said the tingling running down from the elbow nerve makes it feel as though his ring and pinky fingers are "asleep" or "thawing out." By Monday, he's hoping they either wake up or thaw out completely. But unlike a muscle injury, Favre can't do anything to strengthen it or make it heal any faster or stronger. He simply has to take a wait-and-see approach. Favre participated in the opening jog-through portion of practice on Wednesday to get a look at the initial installation of the game plan but sat out the rest of the workout. "There's no doubt the damage or soreness is with the nerve, and unlike a hamstring or a groin or whatever, you can't strengthen a nerve back up," he said. "We're just more playing it by ear and seeing if day to day makes it a little bit better. We're being a little more cautious with it than we would with, say, a muscle injury."