A bad offseason for Dolphins defensive end Phillip Merling has gotten a lot worse.
Per a league source, Merling has suffered an Achilles’ tendon injury.
The extent of the injury, along with the timing and the cause, aren’t known. The source said it’s possible that the injury happened not during offseason workouts, making it a non-football injury.
If — and we emphasize the if — it’s a non-football injury, the Dolphins can choose not to pay Merling’s salary of $600,000, in the event he’s unable to play in 2010.
Merling recently was charged with felony battery after allegedly beating up his pregnant girlfriend.
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AWWWW lol
Florio was this your doing?
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How is it non-football related if he did it working out?
If guys can get screwed out of their contract for being injured for working out in the off-season, then they should ban together and vow not to work out in the off season because its too risky.
K A R M A…..
eat it!!!!!
BYE BYE MERLING!!!
The Dolphins will be unloading this guy very soon as he is the only thug and hoodlum on the team. He most likely got injured by lunging at another girlfriend of his.
When it rains it pours. jetfans are happy as memories of Merling picking off old man Favre and running over the jets for a TD still haunts them.
Marv_Sleezy says:
July 22, 2010 3:42 PM
How is it non-football related if he did it working out?
If guys can get screwed out of their contract for being injured for working out in the off-season, then they should ban together and vow not to work out in the off season because its too risky.
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Did the change it? Because I’m reading ” The source said it’s possible that the injury happened not during offseason workouts, making it a non-football injury.”
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barely even remember it. been to AFC championship since.
Jared Odrick pick looking like a smart pick!
Fins DL starting to look like the team’s achilles heel. See what I did there?
I just dropped the entire jets roster off at the pool
Phillip…I have Rex Ryan on line 1 for you.
Losing in the playoffs is not something you want to brag about Three Cloud.
How is his ex-girlfriend with child doing?
the Herald and SS are reporting he’s out for the year …
and that it did occur during football activities …
Amazing.
This has NOTHING to do with the Jets and they still manage to get brought up. Some people have weird fetishes.
It was more the getting there than the getting beat.