the Rams, get ready to hang the banner and defend their
championship and one of the big questions continues to be
the noise around, Matthew Stafford's elbow. It started
off as a vague
thing, then it got
pretty significant, and then it just kind of went away. Let's
hear both from code, Sean, McVeigh and Matthew Stafford
himself as to where that elbow issue currently is, as we get
closer
to Stafford, having to play in a
Game that counts.
No, there won't be any limitations. He'll be.
He'll be ready to go,
you know, I think we've got a really good plan in place. No
different than really last year. You know, these are
things that he was kind of working through in his own way,
but you always want to be cognizant of a, you know,
a pitch count if you will. But he's feeling as good as I mean,
I tell you what, he's throwing the ball, excellent, he feels
good,
everything that I'm seeing, is reflective of everything he's
saying to me. And so, I feel really good about that. You
know, I can't look back on the past it is something that will
be very similar to last
You're so it's not really anything. That's different. You
got a great competitor that you want to be smart about
managing, you know, guys bodies. And for a quarterback,
their arm is always something that you want to be smart about
and that'll be the same as what
we did last year with him. I feel good. I'm ready to go. No,
limitations,
you know,
still think there's, you know,
I don't know. I feel great. I mean, I'm ready to go. Play,
can always be, can always be better, kind of try to feel
like I'm 21 again, I'll keep trying, but now, I feel I feel
really good. Feel like I make every throw,
I don't know. She need to hear from me.
Ha ha. Mmm. Yeah.
See no limitations is the word they put on the card
to tell. Sean. McMann, Matthew Stafford to recite. No
limitations. They both said it and then Stafford says I still
think there's
no, I feel great.
I'm not gonna go down that path. It's basically what he
was doing. I still think there's room for improvement.
I'm fine. I'm fine. I still think there's, you know, maybe
need for surgery some overtime fine.
We don't know what he was going to say. I'd love to know what
he was going to say. He said at the end, I don't know what else
you can hear from me at this point. How about finishing your
thought that youself? Editors a, I gotta say something there.
Yeah, I mean he's practicing I don't think they're like to
I mean, I don't think it's like
like you're talking about that drastic surgery anything like
that but I know I know I know you held back he definitely had
that because I feel like you want to go and there's room for
improvement. I could probably you know as he referred to at
the end,
feel even better and not Feel and feel like I'm 21 again.
So he's on the search for that. But either way, it's become
a non-story over the last two weeks. I think that's
the positive thing. If it was really like bothering
concerning, it would have got out of that building.
You'd hear it from pliers, people that just got cut,
whatever else. So I'm not worried about it and he better
be ready to go. I mean, you said it, the bills are the
team that everybody thinks you're going to the Super Bowl.
There are team that's on a mission. They kind of showed
that in the preseason. The defense is better. You don't
have
BJ van Jefferson's hurt, your running backs are just coming
back from injury, there's a few new offensive lineman like
Stafford going to have to be on his a game because
like I think thank you of the same feeling
Buffalo's of team on a mission and definitely one of the two
best players in the game for my money and Alan and my homes to,
where
he's coming into town ready to go and that's or Stafford and
Company. Better be ready to go to
the fact that McVeigh said that the management the elbow is
going to be a lot. Like it was last year we know last year
they kept it all under wraps. Yeah, we didn't know about it.
Yeah, my I was surprised when I first saw that
Stafford isn't throwing in the offseason. He had an injection
in his elbow. Like they did a pretty good job of keeping
anyone from realizing there was an issue and I think they're
back in that
nothing to see here mode
because they don't want people to realize it is an issue but
I think they've said enough to acknowledge College. It's
an issue. It's maybe not
as serious as it was early in Camp and Chris, you said it
yourself at the time, they were dealing with a baseball injury.
They didn't know what to do about it. They were searching
for information and strategies for dealing with it and
apparently, they found something,
but it hasn't turned the clock. Back to when Matthew Stafford
is 21 by the way. Matthew,
you can keep looking all you want, but
it ain't turning back to when you were 21.
It's a question of color within the lines you currently have
and that's what they're dealing with. But
he's, he's clearly got a lingering issue that they are
clearly trying to downplay as best they can. It's not going
to keep him from playing
McVeigh said, hey if he's got to throw the ball 50 and 55
times against the bills so be it he's out there and he's
ready to go but this isn't a week. One concern. This is
a week. 12 can
All right, week 9 concerned, this is a when does it pop up
and limit him
during a practice week, when does it limit him?
Potentially, in a game, when does it limit the menu of
throws? It would be available to him as they plan
to face the 49ers later in the year
or some other team. Where
maybe they need staffer to do a lot. Maybe there's going to be
some things you can't do or he's gonna push a little bit
too far. That's why I think this is still on the radar
screen. We do
Know how it's going to play out, once he gets into
the grind of the season, that's fair, for sure. I mean, I'm
with you there and that conversation, it's probably
the number one thing that scares me about Matthew Stafford in
general. Anyways,
it's just the accumulation of getting his ass whooped for
years on years, on years, on years, in Detroit.
And then having years like we saw last year, I mean, we know
it. We know during the season last year, it was more than
the elbow that they were dealing with there.
There was an ankle, there was elbow. I believe there was ribs,
there might have been shown
At one point, I mean there was, I believe a myriad, right? Big
word for me on a Tuesday after Labor Day. Wow of reasons.
Right, right. I don't know what happened there. That's
downright Byzantine. You know what? Look at me all smart and
crap over here
but yeah, I think there was a myriad of reasons that are
injuries last year that they were kind of keeping under
wraps
and it is something I worry about with his age. Not that
he's super old, but he's had to play a physical brand of
football. It's different.
More than Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, his was sitting in
the pocket and getting killed in Detroit because they couldn't
do anything other than him throwing it 40 times. A game
for 380 yards if they wanted to win.
So that's where I worry about him long term and to your point
and week, 7 and week 8,
so new offensive pieces on the offense of line,
you know, all of those issued, the mark team. Now,
you know, you got a team, like, Buffalo coming into town,
you're playing that first place schedule. It's Von Miller and
Company. So I'm here you there. Mike. It's definitely like we
can't wipe it off the screen and think
we're good to go. We got to keep watching it.
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