getting through the preseason, is to emerge with as many of
your key players healthy. Yeah, as possible. The John's got
a scare last night with a top ten, pick Kavon Thibodeau
suffered a knee injury.
He said after the game, I'm good, he waved off the cart. Walk to
the locker room.
Coach Brian De Bal said, he'll undergo all of the necessary
tests today.
You don't know what's going on in there. Until you actually do
the Imaging, they can do a structural. Playing and decide
whether or not they think the ACL is intact. But look at
the play. We're this happy. Yeah, it
it's legal. But is it clean? That's the question Thaddeus Moss
coming across the formation. Why is it legal the waste
Block? It's legal because it's in the town. I didn't say it's
illegal to Legal because it's in The Tackle Box. Yeah, it's
illegal Outside The Tackle Box but he's yeah, I guess you're
right. Plenty of legal
hits that aren't regarded as clean
by the men who play the game so this could be legal
but also, Also in the subjective assess. Yeah but
ballplayers a dirty play. Definitely and the man's world
the football yet. Like what why are you going down there? That
is. It's a No-No in the football. World is it's a BS
block by Thaddeus Miss. What if they're drawn
it up that way? What if that's the play you come across and
you seal it that way with a low block? Well, that was what he
was told to do. Well, fine. Then you aim at the hip or
the thigh but that's just too low. It's,
you know, there is a little bit of a code of conduct here to,
you know, protect your fellow
Brethren. It's it's just it's a spot. Well you know then okay
the Thaddeus next time you go over the middle and somebody
going to dive at your knee. When you catch
the ball over there, we're going to see how that goes
and that's what's going to happen to him. If he continues
to do that, people are gonna start going to give it back to
him. We'll see if his knee holds up and also it looked
worse than it was at first, when you first saw it, I went,
oh no, he's in deep crap. But
then you see that last angle from behind.
You are hopeful, it didn't look like the knee crumbled.
Lior the way you see an ACL. So
I know a lot of giant fans are holding their breath and
you know, good thing they got good news.
I will say this though.
All right,
I don't see it. I just don't see it. I live. Well, you know
me, I spent the whole day yesterday watching film. I've
watched all these first round pass. Rushers
Thibodeau is the least impressive, one of the group,
it's not even close, you know. So that's where I'm just
disappointed, you know? Hopefully, the regular season
comes and maybe he can, you know, turn it on.
Plays hard and all that. But you know, against the second
preseason game they were I don't see anything that
flashes, nothing that pops, it all.
And you I can't say that about Aidan Hutchinson or k, you
know, Trayvon Trayvon Walker or George Karl aptus who's just
dominating people on the chief Steve Nunn's online. So that's
where it's a little disappointing but I hope he's
healthy and I hope he proves me wrong, I really do
and you really do have to wonder and it reminds me of
what happened last year with Jamar Chase different context,
different Side of the ball. But
when, you know, you're only going to play a limited amount
of. That's right to are you? I know he is as locked in, are
you as focused? It's a tough transition to getting rhythms,
want to, they want to play, like, what is this? I'm going
to play for a series or two and
and you don't get you don't get that same mindset that you
would have. So I know what happens, Week 1, if he plays
week one again, he said I'm good. The test today will
confirm whether or not that's
indeed the case and, and good for the NFL.
Because the initial focus on health and safety
was the head
and forget about the rest of the body, because
Mom and Dad weren't keeping a little Jimmy, and Johnny from
playing football because of concerns emanating from ACL
injuries all from head injury. But in recent years, the NFL
has realized
it can't just be about protecting
the brain and it can't be just about protecting offensive
players and and the rules have evolved to take away those low
hits.
Now, the problem is
and I remember someone on the competition committee
explaining this to me when the process first began because
there was resistance to it, because
in football, you're always going to have some guys who are
bigger
than others. And the only chance, the little guy has to
take down the big guy is to take out his legs.
And if we take away
that
possibility,
The little guy didn't have a chance and you know, that means
you're going to have more big guys in the NFL, which is fine.
But that's the that's the natural consequence
of eliminating opportunity,
for the little guy to take out the big guys legs. Yeah, I mean
you're right. You just you can't have it all you can and
as we know for the most part, most guys would rather you hit
them in the head, then down there in the knees.
So you have defensive players about have to adjust
the defensive coaches that have to adjust. What we saw that, you
know, pretty quickly last year.
So, yeah, you you can't take on the blocker and chop as knee
down like that and do that. So
what do you do? Okay, you got to kind of just what they would
say in the NFL, shoot your gun and just go go, try to get
the ball. Carrier, mess up the play that way to now make. Okay,
here's a pulling guard.
Okay, you're coming to get blocked. Just go get the guy
behind there, instead of waiting there, and try to chop
them down and let somebody else make the tackle, you go make it
all a mess
and then maybe the running back has to stop and cut back and
I think defenses are getting a hang of that. We've seen
the Adjustment to the Head pretty quickly.
And I think we'll see continued to see the adjustment here and
this department as well
and it's not just Urban Legend. Larry Fitzgerald has admitted
that he
used to tell defensive backs. I'll pay the fine, right? Hit
me high. Don't hit me low. You hit me high and you get fine
and I'll pay it
because he would rather have a concussion
than a knee injury, because the concussion goes away, fairly
quickly than the engine. The knee injury can can wreck you
for a year. Yeah, some guys you're never the same, right?
It never quite heals the way it was supposed to.