Matthew Stafford's Preseason Hamstring Concern Detailed

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00:00It's early in the preseason, we still have two and a half weeks left to go.

00:09The teams have not played their second games outside of two teams in the NFL in the preseason,

00:13the Hall of Fame game.

00:14How about Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford experiencing hamstring tightness and didn't

00:18finish the practice?

00:19Now, granted, you like to see that where if you feel something in the hamstring, shut

00:23it down, don't fight through it.

00:24I've had a history of hamstring injuries myself, and one of the more quirky hamstring industries

00:29in sports is the wide receiver or the running back because they're built on quick twitch

00:34muscles.

00:35How many times you have to get out?

00:36It's nothing.

00:37Just felt my hamstring grab a little bit.

00:38I'll be back next week only to see that player to be out four or five, six, seven weeks here.

00:42But Matthew Stafford is a competent veteran quarterback that operates from the pocket,

00:47but you still have to be able to dodge some of those elite, talented pass rushers in the

00:52NFL.

00:53If you cannot protect yourself, you're going to end up getting injured worse.

00:56Now, he still has a few weeks to recover for this.

00:58And maybe just as a mild one where he says, you know what, I'm not going to sprint out

01:01left or right.

01:02We're not going to have any naked bootlegs in the pocket where I'm going to have to run

01:0530 yards.

01:06I just need to slide left and right, operate out of the shotgun.

01:10I should be okay.

01:11It's never a good thing because hamstring injuries, if they're not treated appropriately,

01:15meaning getting that rest time and you force your way back, can turn into even longer term

01:20injuries.

01:21So from looking from a Rams perspective here, they're going to need a healthy Matthew Stafford

01:25right out of the gate.

01:26Now the evaluations will come and Sean McVay is going to tell us it's no big deal.

01:30But then again, when's the next time we're going to see Matthew Stafford on the field

01:33and also during these installation practices, which so many times guys you have in training

01:38camp just to getting to know your younger wide receivers and your offensive line and

01:42making those calls.

01:43Once again, you can get all the mental reps you want, but being out there with your teammates

01:48in that huddle, a completely different scenario.

01:51You want to be playing your best football at the end of training camp, not just coming

01:54back to the huddle at the end of training camp.