Gators could be without LB Jones against ‘Noles

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP)—Top-ranked Florida likely will be without starting linebacker A.J. Jones against rival Florida State next week.

Jones, sixth on the team with 37 tackles, injured the medial collateral ligament in his right knee during Saturday’s 62-3 win over Florida International.

Coach Urban Meyer all but ruled Jones out against the Seminoles, saying he grabbed backup Brandon Hicks after the game and told him to get ready.

“A.J. Jones won’t play probably,” Meyer said.

Left guard Carl Johnson and center Maurkice Pouncey also are battling injuries. Johnson sprained his right ankle against the Golden Panthers, and Pouncey suffered a bone bruise in a leg during Friday’s walkthrough when he collided with a teammate.

Pouncey played sparingly Saturday. Meyer said both linemen should return against Florida State.

The Gators (11-0) also hope to get defensive end Jermaine Cunningham (shoulder), defensive tackle Terron Sanders (ribs) and running back Emmanuel Moody (ankle) back. They missed Saturday’s game.

Tight end Aaron Hernandez sat out the first quarter against FIU for undisclosed reasons. Hernandez has a team-high 46 receptions for 571 yards and two touchdowns.

“I don’t want to say he’s in the doghouse a little bit, but we’ve got to have a little better week out of him this week,” Meyer said.

Updated Nov 21, 6:16 pm EST
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    Ron Mon Nov 23, 2009 01:18 pm PST Report Abuse
    Florida is the most over-rated team in the nation. They blew out patsies (div 1aa) and beat non-ranked teams only by the skin of their teeth. The only ranked team they beat is LSU, three-loss LSU who just got beat by Ole' Miss. And they only beat LSU 13-3...impressive? Nope...

    Gators have no bite...Meyer's a fraud. The only place Tebow is going on Sunday's is to church, after the big-boys in the NFL school him on his happy feet BS...
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    Travis C Mon Nov 23, 2009 09:03 am PST Report Abuse
    Kory your post kinda made me laugh a little.

    You mean the same ducks team who lost to Stanford? the same ducks team who lost to boise state? The same Ducks team who had to have 2 overtimes to beat a horrible arizona team?

    Get back on here and talk when you have something worth everyone elses time.
    the pac 10 DOES NOT DESERVE A BCS ENTRY. Oregon will be beat by whoever they play. Not just beat...they will be killed. I hope you end up playing an SEC team to see just how bad you really are. I bet Tennessee would murder you. Hell I bet even OLE miss could beat you. Put Oregon in the SEC and see what your record would be before you start sayin Florida didnt play anyone. Florida Alabame Ole Miss and LSU would pound USC Oregon and dare I mention Stanford who actually beat both of those teams. As far as I am concerned Stanford is better than you considering they didnt just barely squeak by you. They massacared you. Like I said get on here when your post is relevent.
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    Ricky Sun Nov 22, 2009 04:23 pm PST Report Abuse
    NEWS FLASH, rickz does not exist, i repeat, rickz does not exist
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    emerson Sun Nov 22, 2009 03:16 pm PST Report Abuse
    in order to be the man you have to BEAT the man.

    go gators
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    Kory Sun Nov 22, 2009 09:25 am PST Report Abuse
    wow the people say flordia looks strong.just checked their games only played 1 ranked team and
    only beat them by 10. looks like a strong schedule,i would say looks like a boise st schedule to me
    meanwhile oregon has played 4 ranked teams and beat them all. i guess maybe next year the ducks should just play nobodies like flordia so they can be in the #1 spot. your confrence is weak!!!!!
    go ducks
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    Patrick Sun Nov 22, 2009 07:11 am PST Report Abuse
    Florida and Alabama are the two best teams in the country. Although Alabama played a tougher schedule, in my mind Florida deserves the number one ranking in the country based on the fact that they are the reigning champions and have remained undefeated. There is no way that Texas, TCU, or Cincinnati would have survived a brutal SEC schedule. The SEC Championship Game will once decide the National Champions!
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    John G Sun Nov 22, 2009 06:03 am PST Report Abuse
    what is wrong with this article?????

    Look at the dates of the comments......they are from months ago.....this is a copycat style from Fox network....just make up news......make news the way you want it.........I have been making comments for all this time and just starting looking at the dates of the other people.....comments are out of date and has nothing to do with the story.....rivals and yahoo are asleep at the controls
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    John G Sun Nov 22, 2009 05:55 am PST Report Abuse
    what is wrong with this article?????

    Look at the dates of the comments......they are from months ago.....this is a copycat style from Fox network....just make up news......make news the way you want it.........I have been making comments for all this time and just starting looking at the dates of the other people.....comments are out of date and has nothing to do with the story.....rivals and yahoo are asleep at the controls
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    John G Sun Nov 22, 2009 05:48 am PST Report Abuse
    I just wrote an email to Yahoo for them to look at this article, as there is no comments purtaining to the story, just a lot of people cutting each other down and telling their views of the Civil War...nothing really about the Florida LB Jones out with injury and Hicks will fill in for him...instead Gator haters have turned on each other.......I told Yahoo to block everyone from this site that is commenting now....I have already reported abuse to everyone using foul lanuage
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    Chief Sat Nov 21, 2009 09:03 pm PST Report Abuse
    Gators vs Texas
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    megaburp Sat Nov 21, 2009 03:53 pm PST Report Abuse
    RE#158- hey hey, noted Bama rolled over FIU 40-14 on 9/12. put 2+2 together meathead. how does FL rank #1 u want to know? as defending natl champs they already earned that last year while rolling over the tide then as they will again this time brain dead moron.
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    michael h Thu Oct 29, 2009 06:48 am PDT Report Abuse
    Guys - there is headline in today's Tuscaloosa News that I started to pass a long to rick z. I thought that you guys would enjoy.

    " YANKEES SURRENDER TO LEE" - World Series headlines.
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    Rick Thu Oct 29, 2009 06:21 am PDT Report Abuse
    BRIAN W. AND TRAINMASTER,, the only thing you guys are doing is giving Rick Z , ammunition and more to spout about, ignore him and he has NO power, notice when he is ignored, his foolishness has no forum and then he begins to really look just as he speaks, FOOLISH, let it go man, trust me, he needs your responses, this is a football thread, he says the same thing over and over, and you guys respond, he laughs at you, let him be, he is not worth it, he has no particular team that he supports so you can't pin him down to that, he floats about with all type of subjects and he is not saying anything with substance, he needs you to respond, DON'T !! are you any of those names he calls people ? so why give credence to it. Go Gators Repeat
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    michael h Thu Oct 29, 2009 06:21 am PDT Report Abuse
    152 - Brian - I have tried to explain to rick z that this is a football talk board. I have seen a hundred people try and talk with this troll with no success. She is like a rat drowning in the water, you want to throw her a life line but you know once you get her on the boat, she will bite you.

    I for one am no longer going to respond to any of her blogs.
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    michael h Thu Oct 29, 2009 06:16 am PDT Report Abuse
    139 - creates - I got the original number from www.idiotica.com/cranium/encyclopedia/content/civilwar.htm. After reading your post, I went back to check to make sure that I read it correct. It does state that 902 million figure. I did more research and found that the total was around 620,000. The first site that I visited was wrong. My American History teacher would be proud of me.

    My main reason for stating these facts to rick z was to try and show him what a hurtfull and wastefull war this was. rick z seems to delight in making people from the South and SEC mad. At first I tried to reason with him but he goes back to the same old trash talk. Anybody that can take delight from a senseless war is a sick person. As I stated, rick z will be one of those people that go postal in a high school. It is OK to bait people every now and then but he seems to get off by doing it.

    Stay safe my friend.
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    Brian Thu Oct 29, 2009 06:08 am PDT Report Abuse
    134. Posted by michael h - I am glad to see that someone besides myself agrees that the Civil War was not started totally because of slavery! It was started pretty much for the same reason the American Revolution started - taxation without representation. The Union politicians were passing unfair laws which were detrimental to Southern economics. Most of these same Northern politicians were slave holders themselves. If the war had been fought totally on the issue of slavery, Lincoln (whose family owned a slave) would have signed the Emancipation Procamation in 1861 at the outbreak of the war, not on Jan 1, 1863 when the war was going badly for the Union and Lincoln viewed the free slaves as potential Union soldiers. But - this is a football site so I won't dwell on history any more!
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    creates Thu Oct 29, 2009 05:41 am PDT Report Abuse
    Rick Z? Are you Tarded????
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    rick z Thu Oct 29, 2009 05:10 am PDT Report Abuse
    Civil War victories

    North 1
    South 0

    Governors barring the doors of colleges

    South 1
    North 0
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    __A_YAHOO_USER__ Thu Oct 29, 2009 04:17 am PDT Report Abuse
    We need a playoff instead of the BCS appointing a champion!

    division1playoffnow.com
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    Joshgator Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:55 pm PDT Report Abuse
    Little Ricky...this message is just for you and I will avoid big words so as not to confuse that useless pile of turd you think is your brain. You do not upset us, poor delusional little Ricky. I will let you in on a little secret: We (ALL of us on these boards) are not laughing with you...We are laughing AT you. Key word being AT!!! We all get a big chuckle out of "listening" to you make an even bigger fool of yourself everyday. Now get back in the basement and don't let us catch you on the computer anymore or your parents will tan your hide :)
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    Joshgator Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:31 pm PDT Report Abuse
    Big Jim, you should not feel sorry for little dickless z. You should; however, feel sorry for the poor schmuck's parents as they must feel horrified that they were responsible for conceiving this jacka$$. Ricky...do us all a favor and let your parents lock you back up in your basement. This next message if for Z's parents: Have the basement door and lock changed to a bank vault door so you want have to be embarrassed any more by that abomination you created.
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    Big Jim Wed Oct 28, 2009 09:59 pm PDT Report Abuse
    Guys don't be to hard on little ricky... y'all do know he is being abused don't you? I feel sorry for the guy. Maybe one day he will see help from the police and get the abuse stopped. I had a Yankee friend that moved down south when he was a kid to get away from being abused by the other boys in the neighborhood. little ricky reminds me of him so much. He kept talking about how great his neighborhood was and how the south sinks, yet he was being abused in his neighborhood. Abused people always strike out at others and defend where the abuse comes from. The signs are obvious. I just hope he gets help soon.
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    Big Jim Wed Oct 28, 2009 09:51 pm PDT Report Abuse
    144. Posted by rick z Thu Oct 29 12:41am -- Little ricky are You up past your bedtime again? You just never learn do you son? I guess I am going to have to tell your mother again. Really little ricky I am getting worried about you... you seem to enjoy these spankings.
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    Stephen Wed Oct 28, 2009 08:45 pm PDT Report Abuse
    Rick Z, hey ya'll don't be mad at Rick Z, he is still strying to figure out who his dad is. He does not know which dumb inbred southerner fathered him. Bad thing is, his mom does not know which one of us it was either. In addition, when he lived down here, he got his ass kicked on a weekly basis. So, when he finally grew up, he moved so he would not have to get the constant ass kickings, he became a self hating southerner and lives to degrade people from the south, all the while searching for his father who he thinks may be living in the states which are home to the SEC & parts of the Big 12 and parts of the ACC. Rick Z, keep looking for your daddy, keep up the DNA testing, I am sure you will eventually find which southern man is your daddy.

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