Saints Fire 2 Team Doctors

According to Oleh Kossel on Twitter, they both work(ed) for the Pels as well

Both worked for major corporate sponsor Ochsner, so them working on the Pels too would make sense. The bad thing is we (hopefully) were using Ochsner's 2 best orthopedic surgeons. If we replace them with 2 more from Ochsner, which seem likely if only because Ochsner is paying millions of dollars a year to the teams, then you'd think we're getting the B team. Although maybe the B team motivated by seeing the A team fired will yield better results.

Suri is in the team program from last year

Jones, according to his Ochsner bio is an ortho for the Pels as well

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Scott Kushner? @ScottDKushner 17 minutes ago

This Quincy Pondexter saga is long & sordid, going beyond the #Pelicans medical staff as well. I hope he discusses it publicly one day.

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So Pels doctors didn't fix him and then outside doctors didn't fix him? Hopefully he's finally found his anonymous doctor from Chicago like Eric Gordon did.

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Justin Verrier? @JustinVerrier 4 minutes ago

Suri was only with the Pelicans for a year-plus but was their head team physician and director of medical services.

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To be fair to Suri I think most would argue the Pels had decent health results last year.

Shitshow from top to bottom. The ineptitude from these two teams' medical staffs, extending to both teams' management, is staggering. Could go on forever about the medical staff, in particular. We have, over the years. There's a decade worth of trash.

But this specific situation might take the cake. The Saints FO was legitimately about to trade one of the best players on the team, because they were pissed off he was taking too long to come back from an injury that was misdiagnosed.

One of the best guys off of a defense thats been so historically bad for the better part of a decade, that those guys should've been fired twice over already.

Its like the culmination of all the reasons the Saints have managed to devolve into mediocrity, despite having one of the greatest QBs to ever live, in one incident.

Hall of Fame level incompetence.

Damn, that dude did my hand surgery back in 2003. I thought he was a good doc.

frick yes

These team doctors suck arse man

What the hell took them so long

Keenan Lewis chimed in on Instagram.

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balllike21 Thank God and I'm not talking about Dr. Sari cause he is an assistant. I'm bless this foolishness come to a end my prayers have been answered. I wish they would've believed me instead of going if his reports, I probably still would be on the 53 man roster. I'm gald another player don't have to suffer like I did # thank you lord truly appreciate it. I hop the Nfl take this serious and handle my case correct for real.

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So we now have 4 pretty high profile cases where the player says they were injured and the doctor disagreed and the doctor ends up being wrong. 2 Saints and 2 Pels Lewis, Breaux, Gordon, and QPon.

The source on QPon is VOR who used to do legal work for a corporate sponsor and would occasionaly get inside info handed to him. He had heard that the doctors thought QPon's injury was in his head, kind of like we had heard with Gordon. I'm not looking to out VOR's sources, but Ochsner is a corporate sponsor that would seem to be the kind of corporate sponsor that would have medical info to pass on. Just sayin.

Do they have a guy who can't read an X-ray / MRI looking at these results?

You would think it would be easy to read a lot of breaks that you would see on the films.