Should Fans Be Worried About Joe Burrow's Calf Injury?
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00:03 - I was talking earlier in the show today
00:05 about calf injuries, 'cause I play tons of basketball,
00:08 you play football, you know, like I tore my calf,
00:12 it was good night, Irene, I was done.
00:15 And then you try to come back from it
00:18 and you're scared to death 'cause you can feel it
00:20 and you think it's gonna roll again up on you
00:23 and you're gonna be finished again
00:25 for another couple of weeks and months.
00:27 It's the most aggravating injury, like,
00:30 I think the quadricep, the calf, the hammy and the groin,
00:35 those injuries are, they can be season long nightmares.
00:40 Do you worry about Joey Silk with his calf?
00:45 He had the problem before he pulled it.
00:48 He was already putting the copper sleeve on it.
00:51 Do you worry this could linger all year
00:53 or do you think he's young enough that it just washes?
00:56 - I think he's young enough that you look past it.
00:59 It is a trend that you don't wanna see in Cincinnati,
01:03 right, he's yet to have a normal training camp.
01:04 If you go back to COVID, if you go back to the knee injury
01:07 or the appendectomy and now this calf injury,
01:11 he's been a slow starter here in Cincinnati.
01:13 He's been unbelievable over the course of the season,
01:15 but he started slow, four interceptions in week one
01:18 against the Pittsburgh Steelers last year.
01:20 I worry more about the mental side than the physical.
01:23 I saw him at practice yesterday,
01:25 they had a joint practice against the Packers.
01:27 If he didn't have the sleeve on,
01:28 you wouldn't have been able to tell
01:30 which calf he had strained.
01:31 But I think mentally as a quarterback,
01:33 you're driving off, you're planting,
01:35 you're landing on a leg.
01:37 You're gonna have the likes of Miles Garrett
01:39 and TJ Wadden company chasing you down in the AFC North.
01:43 If you're not mentally 100% past it,
01:47 as a quarterback, you're in trouble
01:48 because you start to think about that stuff
01:50 instead of your reads or getting the ball out.
01:53 So I think it's more mental.
01:55 I think that's why they're gonna let him
01:56 take his time coming back.
01:58 But I don't think it lingers.
02:00 I think they're smart enough.
02:01 Jamar Chase talked about taking the extra week last week
02:05 when he was injured last year.
02:06 I think they understand the big picture here in Cincinnati
02:09 and no need to rush through a calf strain.
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