Sep 23, 2026 · 29 min · 8 segments
A knee gets crushed between two defenders and the first rumor is “four to six weeks” until the MRI chatter turns into season-ending surgery. That’s the kind of week two whiplash we’re dealing with…
Evan JeffriesHost
Eric B. MackHost
So I think we gotten into the biggest news, obviously falling out from Monday Night Football, when Jackson Dart pretty much got a, his knee blown out.
For a second we thought, you know, his foot was not planted, so you're like, "Eh, hopefully it's not as bad." But when you see one defender coming up top, the other one coming in the bottom, that essen- essentially will tear your MCL for sure.
So that's what they kind of talked about last night, that looks like he escaped any major injury, but maybe the MCL was, uh, sprained.
Gets his MRI, and that's why sometimes it's hard to, like by clinical tests, sometimes when you're doing some of these ACL tests or some of these MCL tests, if there's immediate swelling, it feels different in there, but not necessarily complete laxity where you're like, "Okay, that's a complete tear." So sometimes it's hard to figure out if it is, and that's why you always get the MRI to determine if it's really something going on in there.
So they haven't officially revealed what it is, but they said he, he's likely gonna need season-ending surgery.
So for me, I think obviously the MCL has been torn, and maybe that's a grade three, and that's why they have to do surgery.
You also think about the m- the m- meniscus, especially the medial side, and then you also think about the ACL and whether or not there's a partial tear there, which still requires surgery.
And what they call that when you injure those three ligaments, it's called the unhappy triad, and it's one of the worst injuries you can kind of have at the knee.
I mean, uh, I think, well, Sunday was like, okay, next Sunday we're gonna have probably unfortunately five or six other injuries to talk about, and then we didn't even have to wait 24 hours.
And then, um, yeah, I was just following the news obviously last night, uh, and it looked like it was just a, you know, whatever, like four to six week in- uh, injury.
I think there was like a, I don't know if it's actu- it was exactly what he said, but they showed a trainer talk to John Harbaugh, and they like, they read his lips and it sounded like he had said four to six weeks.
... or, or what, but, but, you know, you still would like, obviously like you would hate to see that regardless, four to six weeks, you know, but then damn, now a full year.
Yeah, he definitely mouthed four to six weeks and, and like that's what I thought was from the beginning is like, okay, it's the MCL-
So I think we gotten into the biggest news, obviously falling out from Monday Night Football, when Jackson Dart pretty much got a, his knee blown out.
For a second we thought, you know, his foot was not planted, so you're like, "Eh, hopefully it's not as bad." But when you see one defender coming up top, the other one coming in the bottom, that essen- essentially will tear your MCL for sure.
So that's what they kind of talked about last night, that looks like he escaped any major injury, but maybe the MCL was, uh, sprained.
Gets his MRI, and that's why sometimes it's hard to, like by clinical tests, sometimes when you're doing some of these ACL tests or some of these MCL tests, if there's immediate swelling, it feels different in there, but not necessarily complete laxity where you're like, "Okay, that's a complete tear." So sometimes it's hard to figure out if it is, and that's why you always get the MRI to determine if it's really something going on in there.
So they haven't officially revealed what it is, but they said he, he's likely gonna need season-ending surgery.
So for me, I think obviously the MCL has been torn, and maybe that's a grade three, and that's why they have to do surgery.
You also think about the m- the m- meniscus, especially the medial side, and then you also think about the ACL and whether or not there's a partial tear there, which still requires surgery.
And what they call that when you injure those three ligaments, it's called the unhappy triad, and it's one of the worst injuries you can kind of have at the knee.
I mean, uh, I think, well, Sunday was like, okay, next Sunday we're gonna have probably unfortunately five or six other injuries to talk about, and then we didn't even have to wait 24 hours.
And then, um, yeah, I was just following the news obviously last night, uh, and it looked like it was just a, you know, whatever, like four to six week in- uh, injury.
I think there was like a, I don't know if it's actu- it was exactly what he said, but they showed a trainer talk to John Harbaugh, and they like, they read his lips and it sounded like he had said four to six weeks.
... or, or what, but, but, you know, you still would like, obviously like you would hate to see that regardless, four to six weeks, you know, but then damn, now a full year.
Yeah, he definitely mouthed four to six weeks and, and like that's what I thought was from the beginning is like, okay, it's the MCL-
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