Saints’ Challenges Grow: Olave’s Concussion and Carr’s Response to Thomas

Saints wide receiver Chris Olave returned on a flight with the team on Sunday after suffering his second concussion of the season that required him to visit a hospital. Olave was put on the league’s concussion protocol for the fourth time in his NFL career after a helmet strike to his head midway through the first quarter for the Saints in their 23-22 defeat against the Carolina Panthers. “Thank God. A Billion Thanks for all the love and prayers anyway.

As usual on his X account, Olave wrote after the game: “I’m going to be right.” Xavier Woods, a Panthers safety, struck Olave in the head and neck as he was scurrying toward the end zone to try to catch a high pass from quarterback Derek Carr across the middle of the field.

Woods was penalized for unnecessary roughness for the play, the ninth time he committed such a foul in his NFL career, which began in 2017; Woods leads the NFL in such penalties during that time. Olave did not get up from the ground after the pass and was taken to the cart before being driven out of the field but before he was transported to the hospital, he was strapped to a backboard. Players from both teams congregated around Olave and the medical team as they attended to him, and he waved and doled out a few ‘fives’ to his teammates before he was carted off.

Former Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas seemed to point the finger at Carr for Olave’s concussion in some tweets on his X page. “Dude. Scary and panic and just throw the ball,” Thomas wrote among a series of tweets about Carr. “Get him the f out of here; he is so ass.” Thomas, who was released by the Saints in March after eight seasons, has taken shots at Carr on social media several times this year.

He declared in January that he was “set up by a bad ball.” In November of 2023, he got a season-ending injury after catching a pass from Carr. Thomas also said at the time that the Saints weren’t trying to get him the ball. Carr responded to Thomas’ tweets in an interview in February and said that he wished Thomas had called him instead. Carr said at the time that he believed Thomas was upset because Olave took the majority of first-team snaps during practice last season.

I just saw Dude, who attempted to persuade me into believing I’m jealous that they turned Chris into WR1 all the while; he cannot even get him nice cleats. He needs his ass whooped,” Thomas wrote Sunday. After the defeat to the Panthers, Carr noted that he has love for Thomas but at that moment, he could not care less for the things that the latter has to say.

I have had so many teammates over the years and he is the only guy whom I thought we would not get along with.” Yes, and I don’t know what I did to him. / him = refer to the last person. / Last person = ZainulgetSession 13 It does not matter how he might feel that way and I personally have no idea why this could be the case with him .

He’s sorry for whatever he’s got going on to have to make him feel like he has to do that,” Carr said. “I don’t know. But he has never called me during any of this. My phone number has been fixed for years; I haven’t changed it. I have though used the phone to call him at different times. Just to try. Sometimes you can do everything that is in your power to do and it just fails. So I mean, that’s okay, so I don’t know why he feels any type of way. I didn’t see it. I won’t see it. Because I always ‘blank out’, whatever went good or whatever went bad.

I try to ignore everything. It’s unfortunate. Especially coming from that kind of player. But I wish him the best. I hope he gets on a team and does what he wants to do and loves it.” Carr added: ‘It is just something that I would never do to a teammate. Since it was single high, the ball went to where we decided, and it hit Chris in the head though.

It does in our game, and I wouldn’t intentionally do it. I didn’t put them into a look that is worse than they are. On the matter of football, proper, if I have to say the true thing about me, I don’t have an answer to it. Yet when it reduces to the person part of it, all that one can wish for is that he obtains that which he seeks.