As of midday Tuesday there was no update on the status of New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr, who left Monday’s game against Kansas City with an oblique injury in the fourth quarter.
Carr said he suffered the injury on a deep pass attempt for Mason Tipton with 9:38 remaining in the Saints’ 26-13 road loss, due to the torque generated by the throw.
Coach Dennis Allen said he likely would know the status in the afternoon or evening.
“Medical people have been going through all the evaluations this morning,” Allen said Tuesday, noting that the Saints arrived back in New Orleans at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. “I would expect that probably sometime (Tuesday afternoon) I’ll get a medical update on all these guys, in terms of what happened during the game.”
Carr completed 18 of 28 passes for 165 yards and two touchdowns, with an interception, in the game.
He was replaced by Jake Haener, a fourth-round pick last year, who completed two of seven passes for 17 yards, and ran twice for nine yards.
“I thought he went in and did fine,” Allen said of Haener. “He was under duress a lot, it got to the point in the game where they were kind of cutting loose on the pass rush. I don’t think there were a lot of opportunities for him.”
Overall for the Saints, 2-3 and having lost three straight entering Sunday’s game against Tampa Bay (3-2) in the Caesars Superdome, it was their worst performance of the season.
“I don’t feel like we played our best football,” Allen said. “I think we’ve got to really look at what we’re doing moving forward, and we’ve got to play better than we did on Monday night.
“We played a good football team in a hostile environment, and we didn’t fare well in that game. That just tells us that we’ve still got a lot of work to do, and we’re going to be hard at work trying to do that.”
Allen said Saints coaches may have to scale back on what they’re asking of players.
“When you don’t play as well as we needed to – and I thought in this game we made some uncharacteristic mistakes that we hadn’t done in the first four weeks – I know that we had a couple of new things defensively that we were doing, I know there’s a couple of things offensively that we were doing, and we just didn’t execute as well as we needed to,” he said.
“So I think as coaches we’ve got to look at what’s our part in that, how can we put our guys in better positions…
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