| FTBL A couple of Gator D lineman injured

[Guest]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3721181

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida could be without two defensive lineman against rival Florida State on Saturday.

Lawrence Marsh and Matt Patchan injured their left knees during Saturday's 70-19 victory over The Citadel. Coach Urban Meyer said Sunday that Patchan would not play against the Seminoles and called Marsh questionable for the game.

Marsh, a sophomore defensive tackle who has started all 11 games and has 21 tackles and three sacks, sprained the medial collateral ligament in his knee on the first play against The Citadel. Patchan, a freshman who has played in every game, suffered the same injury late. He has seven tackles and 1.5 sacks.

"Matt's sprain is a little more severe than Marsh's," Meyer said. "He's got an MCL sprain that's going to take some time to heal."

The Gators hope to get reserve defensive end Duke Lemmens back against Florida State. Lemmens missed Saturday's game because of stingers.

Is this the same injury Smith and Cody had this year? BTW, I know it's Auburn week and I'm not looking ahead.

 

[TWJUA]

Their D-line has been average, not great. So with some of these injuries, I can say its not getting better for them. Thats probably the weakest part of their team, D-Line. Our strongest could be O-line. So, I hate to say it by injury, but this will only help us.

 

[Guest]

Their D-line has been average, not great. So with some of these injuries, I can say its not getting better for them. Thats probably the weakest part of their team, D-Line. Our strongest could be O-line. So, I hate to say it by injury, but this will only help us.

So you think this could linger to the SECCG?

 

[TWJUA]

Sprained knee for a d-Lineman? Sure, it would take a few weeks to heal. In the mean time, they aren't practicing, and won't be "100%" when game time comes. Same type thing that happened to Andre and Cody.

 

[tidenumber1]

Now that will be the excuse if and when we beat them. We will be hearing how the SEC was down this year and Bama had an easy schedule. Then they played a depleated Gaturd team.