hamstring muscles

Now, if I take it back a little bit, obviously Pau going off injured, it was a, it was a blow.

Hamstring, he'll be out for four weeks.

You suspect that three of those weeks will be international breaks, so not completely the, the end of the world.

We had to reorganize.

Okay.

Hamstring limited this week.

Is he a guy that you expected to get major playing time?

Yeah, I think I expect just random packages and maybe some plays that McDaniel has in his back pocket for Keenan Mitchell to get him involved in this offense.

And so if we're going to not have him available, then the key thing would be to not have him available for these games.

So if he's not ready to go, because Hamstring... is an injury that takes an enormous amount of time to heal.

And frankly, once you've pulled a hamstring, you are always going to be more susceptible to pulling it again.

And the longer you can go before you put it in that situation and the more you can strengthen that leg and the muscles around it, the better.

We know the names.

Mike Evans, Hamstring, George Kittle, Achilles.

Neither one has been ruled out yet.

We know Kittley tore that Achilles back in January.

but he's working to get back fast with that broken hand.

Hamstring in 2024, he only missed two games.

And so for those first three years, He only missed nine games, so it's a lot.

It's still a lot.

I mean, he's a good player.

I think he could be a really, really good player, but you can't be a really, really good player if you can only play a handful of games before your hamstring goes again, and I'm just good for him.

Yeah, is it Hamstring?

Yeah.

I saw him pull up in the game and he didn't go off straight away.

I think he got

Cardish.

Hamstring came later on after that.

I think it's perfectly fine to land in that QB 7 to 13 range as far as you're pushing quarterback back and not going with the high-end options.

From Fat Boy Sosa, "Hamstring," [laughs] oh, it said, "Hamstrings and groin injuries last all season." Yeah, it's, it's one of those things where, um, and it ...

For young guys, I won't hold it too much, but with the old guys, especially as we talk about Mike, uh, where we're talking about Mike Evans, who is, you know, dealing with a plethora of little nagging injuries.

No major injuries, but if you're dealing with little nagging ...

He's just one snap away from that hamstring again and he's out for another three months or so.

And then you've got to ease him back in and he's picking up five, ten minutes there.

Fenny does 15 minutes, Hamstring goes again.

We spoke about him at length last week, but yeah, definitely need a right back because we need help and you can't rely on nabazada to do a full season who's just came out the academy as good as he is doing and he's not looking out of depth you need support you can't burn him out um you need fresh legs to come on he's got the same impact at the moment we've really not got that impact coming off the bench we need that explosive pace really don't we duncan because that is a completely different player but we need that explosive pace don't we

Yeah, Vata will get there.

Yeah.

Hamstrings in particular, you're like, "Oh, I can't avoid using my hamstring if I'm walking around," right?

Yeah.

Um, having somebody there as a safety net is huge, particularly in the early stages, 'cause like you said, it's scary.