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Argos Lose Bishop for Long time
Topic Started: Saturday Jul 14 2007, 11:54 AM (150 Views)
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Argos lose Bishop for 6-8 weeks


Canadian Press

7/13/2007 3:57:07 PM

TORONTO (CP) - A broken right wrist has taken quarterback Michael Bishop out of the Toronto Argonauts' lineup for six to eight weeks.

Bishop has a fractured distal radius - the forearm bone on the thumb side of the hand, the CFL team announced Friday.

After throwing three touchdown passes in leading the Argos to a 27-0 halftime lead over the visiting Calgary Stampeders on Thursday night, Bishop took off on a run five minutes into the second half and was tackled hard just short of the endzone.

His extended throwing hand took the brunt of the impact. He was taken to Toronto Western Hospital for tests which revealed the fracture. Surgical repairs were made Friday.


The Argos said the average recovery time for this type of injury is six to eight weeks.



Toronto went on to win the game 48-15 with Mike McMahon subbing behind centre.

McMahon and Damon Allen now are left to guide the 2-1 Argos into the heart of the CFL schedule. Their next game is July 21 in Calgary.

Bishop, 31, a six-foot-one Texan and a Heisman Trophy runner-up when he was at Kansas State, had earned the No. 1 job with a sharp four-quarter performance after Allen was pulled during a 24-22 home loss to the B.C. Lions on June 28.

Coach Mike Clemons started Bishop in Hamilton on July 7 - his first CFL start since 2005 - and he threw three touchdown passes in a 30-5 win.

Bishop was playing some of the best football of his career, but Clemons now must decide whether to start McMahon, who wasn't particularly impressively in going 6-for-13 with one touchdown pass in relief of Bishop, or go back to the 43-year-old Allen.

McMahon, 28, is a former member of the NFL's Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles. He started seven games for the Eagles in 2005 while Donovan McNabb was injured. He was released by Philadelphia and by Minnesota last year and signed with the Argos earlier this year.

Also injured Thursday were running back Jamel White (concussion) and linebacker Adriano Belli (calf). 
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