in the offseason eventually had an anti-inflammatory injection
in his throwing elbow.
Everything had been fine the first week of camp and then
yesterday out of the blue, Sean McVeigh says that we lessened
Matthews workload, really. When we look at it, we got five
weeks until September 8. He's still feeling a little bit of
pain, he could push through it.
That to me is an alarm
and we've been monitoring this
Chris. He threw 40 to 50
passes, in individual drills yesterday. But no team drills
to protect the arm, he hadn't thrown at. All the day before,
a little bit of pain,
shouldn't be feeling any pain
at this stage of the game when you don't throw it all during
the off-season you've been in Camp for a week preexisting
inflammation in the elbow.
It's just one of those things. Where, if you're a Rams fan,
If you're a fan of great quarterback play you sit back
and you say is he gonna be able to make it through the whole
season with this? Yeah, he's tough as hell. I mean, we know
he can play through injury
but yeah, it's a little scary. I mean, I think you laid it out
the right way. It's been a full offseason. He hasn't thrown
much at all. It seemed like we were kind of out of the woods
with this conversation and now they took him out of,
you know, the uncontrollable circumstances and practice
where, you know, hey, it's a team setting.
I might try to throw this one in there and really uncoordinated.
Work it. Oh, man. My arms aren't so they let him do
individual because he could throw balls. Like, we saw right
there. You can throw them at his own pace. He didn't have to
put a little extra mustard in it because of the coverage and
all that. So
I am there with you. Mike and I got to think, you know, again,
it's dr. Sims here, a little bit, there's got to be more
than the elbow here. You know? We're getting into. Okay, we've
treated the elbow for 12 months. Now, there's something
more.
There's a muscle shut off. There's some other issue
that's putting more pressure on the elbow,
but they got to investigate this more for sure.
It is a little concerning,
and yeah, you got some new players at receiver.
You just, you got an injury receiver,
you know, you need your quarterback out there,
you know, to get the continuity going and things like that.
I know he's played a lot of football and it's not going to
take him long, but no, but I'm with you, there is a level of
concern for the Super Bowl, champs, their
hay and pain
is
a warning from the body. Yes, pain is a message. You're doing
something that isn't good. You're doing something that's
going to cause a problem.
And
it's just been three years ago, the Ben Roethlisberger elbow
discomfort, elbow discomfort elbow discomfort. What happened
week, two of the Season against the Seahawks. Yeah, it went
makes the throw during a
game and there it goes
and he has to have surgery and he's done for the year. So
the elbow fairly important because I'll defer to you.
Since you were a quarterback, I've heard. Yeah, I'd say
the article is one important, it is, of course it is. And for
a guy like him, who we know is
throws. So many different angles and doesn't always use
his body correctly, so he puts pressure on that arm to make
plays, you know, independently without the proper technique
all the time. And yeah, my guy. I've dealt with this before.
You know a little spats. Do it here and there
and more times or not. Yeah, I start you start to find out
like oh I had another issue here. It wasn't really my
elbow. It was
I got hit by a helmet right underneath my arm pad and this
muscles been shut off because it got crushed a bunch of times
in the game. So now when I come through the follow-through,
this ain't working. And now the elbows working, there's a lot
of things like that, but
again where it's a little weird in the NFL and all that is,
it's a billion-dollar business billion dollar organizations,
and they don't always have the most cutting-edge
technology when it comes to rehab and figuring out some of
these issues. And I'm, I am, I'm shocked that we're still at
this point and they're still talking. About this.
The Rams have done a good job of keeping their star players
head and yes, a healthy, excuse me, we've talked about how
top-heavy the organization is from a cap standpoint and they
they can't afford to start losing their best players
because then you have a bunch of Cheaper unproven guys who
get thrust into service.
It works for the Rams when they have to do it, but
I'd say it's a significant drop-off from Matthew Stafford
down to John Wolford. If that is, ultimately, what would
occur at some point this season? Or just the idea that
he can't practice On a
continuous basis. So is it as prepared for Sunday as
the otherwise could be Allen Robinson? New receiver? They're
not getting properly acclimate. They get ready to take on
the bills in in 5 weeks, in two days. So it's just an issue.
It's,
there's always something to worry about for any team, but
a Super Bowl champion, that is pretty much held the team
together. You got to
an injury question with your starting quarterback, and it's
just something to keep an eye on. Ya guy, keep an eye on him
and a guy that
Let's be honest.
I mean he got the s*** beat out of him, his whole career,
I mean yeah. Hello, London.
Yes. I mean, unbelievably so much point to where we just
expected it and kind of swept it under the rug, we were just
like.
So what it's Detroit, they can't run. They can't protect. Wow
Stafford, I'll make something happen.
So yeah, he's his body is it's paid the price to a degree,
but yeah, that makes it intriguing
and all the bills we know. They're, they're Super Bowl
favorites and all that. But yeah, you need Stafford out
there and You know, they
they got van Jefferson hurt yesterday as well.
So that's where he gets scared a little bit as far as you know
their team and being top-heavy to your point.
Jefferson had been a mysterious absence from practice
yesterday. Sean McVeigh said that he is going to have.
Excuse me minor knee surgery and I never liked that term
because mine are means any surgery not performed on me or
anyone. I care about Minor Can surgery is still surgery.
But his status for Week, 1 against the bills is up in
the air after undergoing knee surgery and yeah, I still
wonder when
I know lbj's probably not going to be ready to go Week 1. But
I just, I just I, it's just so quiet. Everyone's back in Camp
and there's no talk at all about Odell Beckham jr. Well,
it's sad because he was,
he was pretty damn good with the Rams last year and you and
I agree. He would have been the Super Bowl MVP. He was on track
to be the way he was performing early in that game. No doubt
the Rams coaches think he would have been the MVP. I've talked
to
a number of them after the game and there.
It's a shame. He was he's gonna be the MVP, the way they were
playing us, he was gonna go off. So it's that's thought
throughout the organization,
I don't know if you saw this Mike the other day there was
you know they got they were flirting together a little
the other day so there was that McVeigh I think made a comment
on the NFL Network about Odell Beckham jr. And all the things
he brought to the team and all that and I know Odell retweeted
it and wrote something like that's my dog or whatever all
that. So
again I certainly think they're in the leader house as the wise
people say
to be the front-runner. For Odell Beckham jr.
I just feel like they're doing enough to keep the fish on
the line but a not ready to reel em in. Yeah, it does seem like
that right now. Yeah. And I'm sure he's not ready yet. So
they're like, yeah, take your time, get healthy and you know,
there's no rush but I would think they're going to be
the team. That's probably most informed of his
health status compared to the rest of the NFL.
And look the last time around when he tore the ACL against
the Bengals in Cincinnati week. Six, I believe of the 2020
season. It was 11 months before he was cleared. So he may not
be a guy who can help a team until the postseason, but we
saw what he could do last year down
the stretch for the Rams and maybe he'll be back with the Rams
before. It's all said and done. Let's take a break.