Miles, and same old Story, the Chargers they look good on
paper,
but the game isn't played on paper
and they get out on the field and they start getting injured.
JC Jackson, one of the big free-agent acquisition, just
here for the team, via the Patriots.
He's expected to miss two to four weeks. After ankle
surgery. They have the Raiders Week 1, then the short
turnaround Thursday night National streaming debut
Amazon,
will he be back for those games?
Who knows he had a
Non-invasive procedure to correct. Something he was born
with so
I didn't know there was a non-invasive surgery, I don't
know what, I don't know what that means. I don't know how
you have surgery that's non-invasive
but
regardless he's out two to four weeks and
charges great defense. If they can keep their 11 best players
on the field for an extended period of time. Something they
haven't been able to do.
Yeah. Well I'll have to ask my doctor mom. What
a non-invasive. Of surgery is maybe she knows better than
I ever would.
But, yeah, I mean, look, you said it the Chargers
can never seem to stay healthy and that was the one thing that
when they got all of these guys, you know? I'm thinking,
man, like they look good on paper, this should be good. But
you know, you don't know if Joey Bosa is going to stay
healthy, you don't know of Derwin James is going to stay
healthy. You don't know if Khalil Mac is going to stay
healthy, after he had left foot issue last year and now JC
Jackson who was not necessarily had like an injury.
History. He's going under the knife, I guess, maybe, but
maybe not if it's a non-invasive surgery, whatever
is happening like he may miss two to four weeks. And if
you're going against guys like Davante Adams in week 1,
you need your top corner and Jesse Jackson in order
to help. Stop that guy. All right, you're going against
Patrick Mahomes in week, two, you know, I know that they
don't have Tyree kill anymore, but you still want your top
corner to help you defeat, one of your biggest rivals in the
So this is a significant injury
and it's a significant concern, I guess I should say it did
when you're talking about starting the season for
the charters and they obviously want to get off to a good
start.
Yeah. And they could be well easily 0 and 2 even
though they may be better than they were last year's going to
be a tough Aloha, couple of tough games out of the gates,
the Ravens have, and we're now at the point where and
the rules tweaked a little bit every year,
the rosters moved to 80
as of yesterday. And
as part of this reduction, Duction from 85 to 80 guys who
are on the active physically, unable to perform list, could
be moved to the reserve and this year, it means four weeks
out
to start the season before the window opens to return to
practice and eventually to return, to games Gus Edwards,
who tore his ACL during a practice. Last September, is on
the reserve populace. So who Miss at least the first four
games
along with Chase young, the Commander's defensive end who
tore an ACL last year.
Ron Rivera the coach of the team had been Leading us to
believe that he wasn't gonna be ready to go Week 1. And now, we
know he will at least miss the first four weeks. And it
doesn't mean he's definitely going to be back week, five
weeks, six weeks, seven.
All we know is both Edwards and young
out the first four weeks and plenty of other guys, we got
the Post-it PFT whether it's Jameson Williams on the NFI
list, he has the torn ACL that he's recovering from guys with
these lingering injuries.
Now we're at the point where
you can shift them off the roster
and put them on
it. See the reserve NFI or Reserve. Up and we know we
won't see them until October at the earliest.
Yeah, you know, I like that it's gone from six weeks to
four because it does kind of give you that better
flexibility with the roster and they made a lot of changes in
the last few years. When it comes to, you know, getting
guys back from
injury and obviously the injured reserve. Now, you only
have to be on there for three weeks before you're eligible to
return. And I think that that helps a lot when it comes to
the roster flexibility and making sure that you have guys
that are on. Field that can be on the field and you're not
just
like having to deactivate guys, just because they're going to
be gone for 2 to 3 to 4 weeks, right? I like that, they're
making things more flexible. If in all those situations during
the, to covid Seasons, it was unlimited injured, reserve, and
now it's restricted again.
And it's one of those things where the numbers change all
the time so I never remember them specifically, have to look
them up but there's a much lower number of guys you can
put on injured reserve and then bring back. I mean it used.
To be if you are and I are, you were done
no matter what. They didn't want teams to play these roster
games where they were stashing, guys, like Belichick would
surely, do not that. I'm saying you did anything wrong, you
just take full advantage of the rules. And the past two years,
they've ignored that concern that guys may get stashed
because they just wanted to have maximum roster flexibility
with
the covid rules. So they have continued to Trend toward
greater flexibility but it is a restriction this year and I are
because we don't have the covid stuff other than Who says, hey,
I don't feel well. They testimonies pause and he's gone
for five days. That's the only covid protocol for 2022.
Finally. And this one is ominous because as MDS pointed
out in our PFT text thread yesterday, no one ever emerges
from a meeting with dr. James Andrews not getting surgery,
Kayvon Thibodeau after taking that low hit on a legal block,
but subjectively possibly. Not a clean block from Thaddius
Moss. Son of Randy Moss. Supposedly fine.
Sprained MCL only going to miss three or four weeks. Second
opinion from dr. Andrews, so I don't know if it look. Usually
the second opinion means that the player doesn't agree with
what the team has said.
So I don't know what the player is. The player thinking
I could be back quicker,
is he thinking? You know, this doesn't feel right. I know,
I kind of fought through it. I said no to the car and I walked
through the locker room afterwards. I was kind of in
denial. It's a human reaction, but I'm really not feeling,
right?
Maybe there is something more in there.
The way we're going to find out, and it could be more than
three or four weeks for Kavon Thibodeau.
Yeah. You don't necessarily want to hear dr. Andrews and
you're talking about a knee injury and think that, oh,
gosh, like this is not going to be something serious, so
I guess we'll see. But yeah, I think when you're talking about
second opinion
and it dr. Andrews like that's your mind doesn't immediately
go to. Oh, that's a good thing. Yeah, he'll be back sooner than
we thought. That's not the first reaction. The reaction is
this may be worse
than initially. We believed and and that could be bad news for
the Giants. And for their top-10 pick who they expected
and hoped would come in and make
an impact this year. Let's take a break.
We're going to do a draft of the most impressive rookies
we've seen so far through two weeks the preseason, we'll do
that next on this Wednesday edition of PFT life.