Team caught short by injuries to receivers
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Patriots receivers Deion Branch , Troy Brown , and Bethel Johnson will start the week with injury issues. The extent of those injuries won't be known until coach Bill Belichick releases his injury report tomorrow.
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With his best wide receiver hurt, Brett Favre made it look for a while like the easiest way for him to complete passes was to throw it to the other team.
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Rookie running back Thomas Tapeh was placed on injured reserve after dislocating his hip in Philadelphia's loss to St. Louis on Monday night.
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With few top-shelf teams this season, several factors are contributing to a shortage of quality, well-played NFL games.
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NFL playoff shocks have relegated  big-play wide receiver Terrell Owens and last year's Super Bowl  Most Valuable Player Peyton Manning to the sidelines.
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Joel Klatt saw his receiver streaking behind the defense, reared back and threw deep. Then, everything went blank. Klatt didn&#39;t realize what happened next until some teammates helped him off the turf a few seconds later.
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NFL playoff shocks have relegated big-play wide receiver Terrell Owens and last year's Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Peyton Manning to the sidelines.
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The Tennessee Titans already have one quarterback recovering from surgery. They aren't in a hurry to operate on backup Billy Volek's throwing shoulder if they can avoid that.
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KIRKLAND - They had managed to avoid the injury bug, for the most part, for the first four games of the season. But misfortune finally caught up with the Seahawks the way it has with a bevy of other NFL teams.
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A mistake surfaced at the worst possible time during Quincy Carter's debut as the starter in place of the injured Chad Pennington.
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Green Bayâs much-improved special teams have been a key piece of its turnaround this season. But with the playoffs approaching, the teamâs punting and kicking have not been at their best.
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CINCINNATI -- When the outside world looked at yesterday's matchup at Paul Brown Stadium, it saw a battered defense that was missing half its secondary facing an elite quarterback and the fourth-highest-scoring offense in pro football. The world looked at this and saw a disaster about to happen. The Patriots looked at it and saw opportunity.
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Foxboro, Mass. - Every week the New England Patriots seem to offer their fatalistic following some reason to despair - &quot;We don&#39;t have any wide receivers!
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There were two players the Giants could not afford to lose to injury. Running back Tiki Barber was one. The other is now done for the season.
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As bruising and violent as most Sundays are around the NFL, it's hard to top last week's for physical pain.
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The Vikings&#39; star wide receiver suffered the injury in last week&#39;s victory at New Orleans. Vikings coach Mike Tice said the problem was &quot;a little worse than a mild strain of the hamstring&quot;.
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The NFL season has ended almost as soon  as it began for several players who suffered serious injuries  on opening day, in particular Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin  Everett.