Join Pro Football Doc – Dr David Chao and Taylor Bicht to discuss NFL OTA’s Roundup and Minicamps, Nick Chubb, Stefon Diggs, Anthony Richardson, Michael Pittman Jr, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Rashee Rice, Kyle Pitts, Gabe Davis and Dak Prescott Updates. Plus a discussion on the Tush Push!
MLB Injury analysis on Phillies Bryce Harper’s wrist concern.
Can you play baseball with a broken pinkie toe? Analysis on Mookie Betts and Francisco Lindor’s recent toe injuries.
WNBA star Caitlin Clark injury analysis after we said she could miss a month when only two weeks was expected.
NBA Finals and post-season surgeries to stars including Jayson Tatum, Darius Garland, Zach Edey and more.
0:30 LA 2028 Flag Football
2:50 NFL OTA’s and Minicamp Reporting
13:10 Anthony Richardson Sr.
17:00 Indianapolis Colts Starting QB Jones or Richardson
19:00 Cleveland Browns Starting QB
20:15 Nick Chubb
23:45 Stefon Diggs
25:40 Amon Ra St. Brown
27:05 Michael Pittman Jr.
28:35 Rashee Rice
29:30 Dak Prescott
31:00 SIC Picks Success
31:30 Bryce Harper
32:35 Shohei Ohtani
33:10 Francisco Lindor
34:10 Baseball Players Playing With
35:45 WNBA Caitlin Clark
37:45 NBA Offseason Surgery Tracker
38:05 Tush Push – Jon Gruden’s Tweet
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very good all right welcome welcome live Pro Football Doc Sports Injury Central podcast taylor’s here doug’s here in the background happy to take questions you don’t sound excited we’re in the middle of the GOAT series and you’re like Taylor’s here like we’re still getting our guests right you’re not the goat no no it’s all good we we got some catchup to do because of the goat series we really haven’t gone over a few things than in the recent few weeks so let’s get that going here and uh you know we’re about to start baseball travel season for my son that’s a whole another story busy busy yep busy busy but uh lots to discuss here i mean uh you know even just now I I just go through Twitter or X and just get ideas and you know we’ve been pretty lucky in uh talking about the podcast recently like you know a few weeks ago I don’t remember how long ago was all this hubbhub about the Olympics and the NFL since we talked about it i said “Look it’s a different game it’s not that easy first of all who knows who’s the number one fantasy wide receiver running back in 2028 when you know like so much changes i mean three years ago you know uh Cooper Cup was a number one and Adam Thelen was up there right and what’s going to happen in three years from now with the Olympics not to mention that it is a different game and what have you seen now bejian Robinson just came out and said “Yeah it’s a different game.” It’s a different game it’s made for little people and you know Patrick Mahomes is a wizard but unless he does a lot of flag football he may not be the wizard at flag football the rules are different um yeah the athleticism is something the NFL guys will be unparalleled but the rules are different and the game isn’t built for anyone to run over anyone it’s avoid avoidance and shifty moves right elusiveness and you know look uh uh when you’re all the NFL guys are bigger right because they have to take a blow the flag guys aren’t so there’s that there’s another trend that we see again and again scott Poli just got hired as a consultant for Iowa all the different colleges ron Rivera at Cal and Bill Bich and and all these different things going on in terms of management and uh and GM so lots and lots to talk about not to mention injuries and we will touch on the tush push again john Gruden put out something about the tush tush push and we can circle back to it or do you want to talk about that now um let’s I’ll send that for later um first to talk about doc just uh you saw like you said a lot of stuff’s going on nfl OTAAS mini camps are in full swing and that’s when people start reporting injuries right news there’s injuries that I even me I research everything every day for you i don’t know anything until they release it right when they come into camp right so we’re starting to hear that information i just want to hear just before we start about talking players that have come in signed whatever how did you approach um OTAAS in mini camp when you were a doctor over with the Chargers excuse me we approached it with fingers crossed um about half the teams will lose a player a player that they’re counting on i’m not saying the star or the number one guy but someone that they were counting on to start in the off season in OTAAS or mini camps some years it was an Achilles some years it was an ACL half the teams will lose somebody uh recently uh who’s the tight end uh Torres Achilles uh off season oh Donald Parnum yes yeah i mean is he a number one guy maybe not but still i mean I’m telling you half the teams will lose someone before so you baited breath this is why OTAAS are non-cont but there’s a number of non contact injuries you try and get everyone in healthy the other thing that you try and do in the offse otaas is make sure people are healthy we’ve talked about it before exit physicals very important i’d say okay look if you have a surgery that takes an injury that if you need surgery takes six months to recover you have to make that decision in January February to do the surgery or not do the surgery you can’t wait now if you have a surgery that takes six weeks to recover you may indeed wait you may wait as long as mini camp here before doing the surgery so it really all depends just today in my practice I saw a quarterback uh came to me for the first time with a posterior laboral tear he says he’s now changed his college quarterback changed his arm angle uh he used to throw over the top now he has to he sees his elbows lowered because of his shoulder and he came to me the first time with MRI in hand and he’s got a posterior superior laboral tear i’m like “You’re trying to play this year.” He’s “Yes well I don’t have a surgery to fix you all we can do is try injections and therapy and try and work around it right now because we don’t have a your your season’s less than three months away we don’t have a surgery that can fix you in time uh kind of situation so he’s going to try and get through it with injection and therapy he’s missed the window right and it’s not his fault he didn’t know but that’s where we look at that and then the other thing that he say is these injuries that are popping up now it’s no surprise to the team it’s just a surprise to us in public you have to remember since the season there’s no mandatory injury reporting we’ve told you that there’s a lot more injuries than what are listed publicly we’ve told you that the off season involves three times or more surgeries than in season so there are a lot of quote surprise surgeries but the only reason it’s a surprise is in the off season there is no mandatory injury reporting so unless you know a reporter runs into a player in a sling at a celebrity softball game you’re really not going to see that right um and uh you’re really not going to see any of the things until they start reporting back and there’s some media there and OTAAS you start to hear a trickle but mini camps is where you hear a lot of the trickle and we’ll talk about some of the mini camp injuries like Anthony Richardson when did that injury really come up was it just the other day when it got discussed or has it been known about in the building for a while etc so it’s all has to do with the reporting mechanism is all before we jump into those injuries doc I just had a question um so when you were doctor is it hard some of the players you had to like keep tabs on more than others i know like some players they’re they’re too busy maybe go focus on a vacation or so did you need to keep tabs on throughout the offseason i know I’m trying to trigger you on a question here but there had to be some players I guess that was easier than others right well you know we treated them all like adults and professionals and for the most part they were but there’s a human element where they didn’t realize i mean there are times where I had to push some guys etc um I actually have a I we’ll save it for when we get Antonio Gates here okay i just booked my travel to uh Canton for August 2nd Hall of Fame induction for Gates oh awesome um so I guess he’s busy i’ll I’ll try and nail get and grab him still i’ll tell a story about how we had to get him to come in at one time not that he was uh a derelch on anything but uh we actually had to reach out to him and and what I always found interesting sometimes and I’m not speaking specifically about Gates but a lot of times at least for me the team would say “What’s happening with this guy?” I’m like you know and and I tell them what we knew and they they don’t believe it or not they don’t always respond to management or their position coaches you know it’s it’s it’s relationship building is what it is and uh I usually could get players to respond most of the time h so yeah I always remember that story you told me Doc when you like the way you manage the players if you had a veteran and a rookie in the mber in your waiting room you wait and who whoever was there first you would wait for them to say something first because you’re not going to Oh yeah well to to clarify you say that the the training room and the locker room it’s a little bit of a jungle okay the sideline is a little bit of a jungle like there are certain areas that the team doctor stands there are certain areas look there’s the quarterback seat you don’t take that seat right and there’s the O line and the Dline and where the equipment guy stands it looks like chaos it’s not it’s there’s unofficial You know what it is when you were in high school or middle school there was a hierarchy on the playground or the lunchroom tables right that table was for the eighth graders right and the sixth graders knew it don’t go near there remember the football the football team always had like two tables right next to like the the line remember like you always know like you said those are the tables for there just there’s there’s a hierarchy of of how things go and in in the locker room and training there’s a hierarchy of how things go look I’m no dummy in the sense that on the one hand how do you balance and head coaches do this all the time how do you balance a vet versus a rookie right and there’s some head coaches that try and say we treat them all the same yeah and there’s some head coaches that say you know the the star player can get away with more right and where’s the happy medium to me it’s always about consistency and uh you know uh if you had a consistent rule where you said vets always cut the line against rookies to get seen by the doctor you probably could get away with it right if you had a rule or whoever came first is who you saw you probably could get away with not making the veteran mad the problem is what if you have a vet that is a non-starter and a rookie that is a star starter where do you go do you go by the vet rule or the rookie rule the first one there rule i mean which way do you go right so I solved it by saying I would have a pretty good idea who is waiting to see me next but you never know for sure right did a guy come through and say “I’m next.” and then he went to the wait room and came back and it looks like he just walked in or was a guy been there or the guy I can’t be sure so I would come out knowing pretty well and I would just say who’s next now if the vet said I’m next and the rookie doesn’t say anything don’t get mad at me that I showed favoritism or the star player cut in don’t you know the don’t get mad at me for favoritism i I I made it who’s next and you raised your hand whoever raised their hand and the other ones didn’t object now if they did object I would just say “Let me know i’m ready to go.” And I’d go into the room you know you had a smart way of doing it doc that’s why I always remember i mean there’s And part of it is then just building rapport with guys and and I always say you have to build rapport with guys before there is a crisis okay mhm if you sit down with players be it on the plane or on the team bus or at meals or hellos or start a conversation when you do their entry physical asking about them or something or in the hallways you’re building a relationship of trust for when things aren’t smooth right and in an urgency or emergency situation and this is why as much as people say team doctors can you know shouldn’t be embedded in the team and they should just be independent and whatever i don’t I don’t think it works that way it’s it’s it’s life i don’t think it works that way all right well Doc next one I want to jump into you already mentioned his name already anthony Richardson’s the one you know I just you just emailed me too you and me should be preparing for the Scott Fish tournament so all these uh updates that we’re going to talk about are be very important um I had Anthony Richardson last year after you specifically told me not to and you were right i I’ll maybe learn to listen it’s been a couple five years plus with you doc i don’t know if I’ve learned that yet but let’s go on anthony Richson has a injury history um long i think the way when he first came out you were worried about his um play style oblique injuries back injuries october 2023 he had that right shoulder AC joint surgery out for the season now they’re saying he has suffered a reagravation of that injury in OTAAS and he’s experiencing soreness and they’re um sitting him right now what are your thoughts on this being close to the season and how closely related to the surgery and your thoughts on the whole such situation for Anthony well first of all I don’t dislike Anthony Richardson and I am not calling him injuryprone mhm i did make the observation that his style of play is more prone to injury he ran the ball out as part of the offense on first down and when he heard a shoulder I think it was a play where he scored a touchdown made a great run and kind of made it just inside the pylon and then got hit and as opposed to stepping out of bounds so I’ve always said I don’t love the idea of calling a player injuryprone but there are players based on style of play that are more prone to injury and Anthony Richardson seems to be one of those because he is dynamic because he takes the risks and puts himself out there now the shoulder is the current issue i’ve done a little research on it i’ve looked at as you know always firsthand reports there’s no video of his reinjury but if you read the words of Shane Stikin if you read the words of Ian Rapaort if you read the words of any beat reporter nobody has specifically said that he has reagravated the AC joint it’s unlikely to aggravate the AC joint without contact trauma and uh he’s hopefully doesn’t don’t have any of that right could there be some wear and tear at the AC joint maybe but everyone says it’s the shoulder that he had surgery on it’s And they’re lumping that as the same injury but I’m not sure it’s the same injury i think it’s the same side i’m not sure it’s the AC joint if it were AC joint it would almost be good news it’s you’re knowing what’s happening so it’s an unknown injury is it rotator cuff tendonitis is there a laboral pathology in that shoulder is it just wear and tear on the AC joint and scar tissue from the previous shoulder surgery nobody knows but at this point in time it just seems to me first of all there’s an unfortunate changing of the guard in Indie right new controlling owners the daughters of Ers um that’s always ominous for an incumbent uh the best ability is availability look at what happened to Jaier Alexander he’s at the top of his game yet got released anthony Richardson hasn’t been that available and uh to me what this is all signaling is here’s your fantasy tip i’m not saying he’s perfect but Daniel Jones is your starter in Indie why uh Anthony Richardson has been there yet they brought in Daniel Jones you could say for the backup or to compete it’s been said to compete for the starting job and if Anthony Richardson didn’t hold the job well enough when he was practicing how is he going to hold the job well enough when he’s not practicing right and if you look at Shane Stiken and his history um he’s like the veteran coming in you know or indie in general has right from Jacobe Brassette to Philip Rivers to to Matt Ryan to you know others etc so I think Daniel Jones has the inside track on the job not only because they brought him in and the circumstances but now with Anthony Richardson not taking snaps and not throwing until maybe the middle of training camp or whatever they’re saying I mean you have to think Daniel Jones has the inside track on that job they had Joe Flacco last year I remember too right flaco i forgot yeah that was the other one yeah so that Shane and and the Colts have had a history of wanting to do this and a big thing like you said this is the regime that brought Daniel Jones in right so this is very very significant that he’s new there and this Well you know look uh if Daniel Jones is brought in and Anthony Richardson is healthy and splitting reps you know who’s who wins the job it’s hard to say right but now if Daniel Jones is getting all the reps and getting up to speed on this offense in this situation he’s going to have the inside track uh over Anthony Richardson at this point in time i trust you on this because I remember a conversation with you earlier in the offseason about the Brown situation when they’re still holding the five quarterbacks and Joe Flacco was plus a,000 i think it was plus 1,200 almost the same as Shador same as a little bit less than um Dylan Gabriel flaco is now plus 115 Doc so plus 115 yes it was it was 1,200 when I called you a month or two ago about it so I trust you on this betting on who’s the quarterback situation if there’s a Daniel Jones thing out there I would look into it I guess yes um I don’t know what the odds are for for who the starting quarterback is but to me when you told me Flacka was plus 1,200 I said “Well that’s a joke he’s being brought in as the starter.” I mean come on yeah and he did well no offense yeah i mean it wasn’t going to be Kenny Picket no offense yes i mean what I told you I think was barring injury to Joe Flacco he’s the day one starter period barring a calf strain or a hammy or something that happens during training camp joe Flacco is the hands-on starter i was just shocked that it was plus 1,200 i was like “Oh my gosh.” So where are you taking me to dinner yeah right yes gonna go to French Laundry like uh or Gavin Newsome did back day right oh here go doc next one here is uh Nick Chub um just signed with the Houston Texans i love Nick Chub back in the day when the Browns super effective but that multi- um um you know ligament knee injury he had that you documented very a lot you know a couple a year ago and then he had the the foot break last year the end of season what are your thoughts on him joining the Texans as a second back behind Joe Mixon i love the fact that Nick Chub is returning to the NFL and playing he played a little bit last year and obviously got hurt but I mean that is a devastating injury the knee dislocation that he suffered and the highest compliment I can pay Nick Chub is if that were just a guy they would not be in the league anymore but Nick Chub is not a guy nick Chub in his prime was maybe the guy or you know one of Yeah yeah right a bellcow mhm and the fact that he’s still in the league is kudos to Nick Chub and his hard work but you can’t draft a name i I can’t imagine look it’s one thing to say Joe Mixon resurrected his career based on a system and whatever but Joe Mixon was still in his prime and it didn’t have injury nick Chub here um I mean I I don’t see it as that exciting for Houston i mean last year even when he played now admittedly this year he could be better he was what 3.3 yards a carry and and uh the fact that he played at all was great and he’s usually five yards a carry dock so you saw that big difference with the injury yeah and and Cleveland loves Nick Chub the organization in the city he signed a one-year deal for two and a half million what does that tell you nfl teams when you’re talking about medical things don’t let guys go that I mean they kept them on they they paid him last year it was a feel-good story they did him right I mean if the Cleveland Browns don’t think he’s worth two and a half million what does that tell you right look congratulations to Nick Chub I’m just not high on Nick Chub resurrecting his career to Nick Chub standards of what we’re used to it’s just not Nick Chub is all now somewhere in fantasy is he serviceable here sure i mean you know uh does he belong in the NFL yes it’s still Nick Chup but it’s not Nick Chub that’s all I can say and I feel like we’re both going to see him probably drafted a little bit higher than normal because just of his name but you’re you have um you know lower expectations than most I would say and as you know I’m a guy that likes known commodities and I like veterans in general but I don’t think that I mean he in my draft he’d have to drop pretty low for me to consider it i will mention you did have Nick Chub when he did injure his knee the you know the second time so we know we liked the name before so you knew what he was i was like I think I was in Montana and it was an autodraft but I was okay you texted me fat fingers shoot you were mad about it i do remember that next next one doc um Stefan Diggs um week eight um 2000 last year he tore his right ACL um he’s expect they said he’s expected to play week one he’s attending OTAAS right now because it’s a new team learning the offense and he doesn’t have a brace right now are you um is that good news or are you still expecting first year off ACL he doesn’t have a brace right now because he’s a wide receiver and they hate braces yes okay and it was a week or so ago when there was some video posted of Stefan Diggs running a parallel route and and he had a little pep in his step no question did he finish his route before the competing receiver by a little bit but you know I play this game i know Stefan Diggs is coming off an ACL but I have no clue which knee he’s coming off of so I literally on my Z phone open it up so I get a bigger view and I look really closely at the video and go can I tell which knee it is i could tell it was his right knee he’s making great progress but you cannot tell me he was 100% yet if I can on one route video go “Yes that’s his right knee and I’ll bet significant money on it.” And it was his right knee ACL can he play week one looks like he’s headed for it but remember wide receivers have an advantage at the line of scrimmage they know what they’re being asked to do dbs do not so it’s easier since you’re dictating the route to know what you can do coming off the line of scrimmage coming off ACL but I still don’t think he’s 100% i still would not be as excited about Stefon Diggs as some seem to be um next one I have Doc is Aman St brown another big time receiver he had a knee cleanup surgery so nothing not major but he’s expected to be ready for training camp in July do you fit that you’ve seen the knee clean up for that’s enough time for him to be ready it was a month ago he’s just sitting on the side right now um just that’s good news for St brown and bad right well it’s good news he’s gotten it cleaned up it’s bad news he needed the cleanup but see you know going back to what we said earlier I’m not hating on Rosane Brown obviously he’s been excellent but if you asked me based on this knee cleanup can he have a good season this year yes he’s still with the Lions you know some changes but yes big offense yes is he the same top receiver he is today in 2028 i’d have to say no based on knee cleanup and whatever that goes back to our flag football who in three years who really is i mean dial the clock back three years the landscape was very very different in terms of I mean pukah who it was all Cooper Cup right devonte Adams was big in Green Bay right devonte Adams was huge right i mean like look I’m just saying what this knee scope means is can Aman Ross St brown still have a good year yes uh is he going to be the guy you know futures in a keeper league that you really want to keep all the way through to 2028 i I I odds are against you there um next wide receiver I want to talk about doc is Michael Pitman uh Jr I don’t know if you remember uh remember earlier in the season he was ruled out remember Raptor’s like done for the season back injury he dealt with the back injury all year uh lower performance down year for him you know the quarterback changes and such would you be worried about drafting him again this year with no surgery in the offseason does this a chance that it can linger in the next year or something he’s dealing with in his career it’s never been said what the exact injury is so it makes it hard and and I’m glad you corrected it there and said Michael Pitman Jr i might ask when I wrote my notes I I wrote the junior last second i was almost a mistake hey I know Michael Pitman senior he was he was on our team i know Michael Pitman pretty well he’s a great guy um Michael Pitman was a running back and uh I don’t know what Michael Pitman fed fed Michael Pitman Jr but he’s tall yes he’s huge yes he’s tall and big dad wasn’t that tall or big dad was Dad was more your prototypical running back mhm all right Doc i don’t know but I would say that it’s good news hopefully and especially now that he has who throwing to him no I don’t know that’s right you got Daniel Jones you said that’s what you told everybody to put their bets on earlier all right next wide receiver doc is uh Rashi Rice he had the LCL tear um and he had a little hamstring uh tendon issue as well on the right side week four he had surgery on the on the hamstring and the LCL he’s not expected to be back the start of the season do you concur with those thoughts with Rashi Rice for the Chiefs i haven’t seen video of Rashi Rice running around so I don’t know exactly where he’s at yeah yeah um but believe it or not some cautious optimism because the assumption is his surgery was likely a repair rather than a reconstruction okay and that gives him a little better chance um I want to see him run around first and and look at video but some cautious optimism that he could at some point come back and be effective uh last one I had a big name doc is Dak Prescott he had the hamstring injury in week nine last year um had surgery to repair the torn hamstring he said it was a is a bulgion I believe I’m saying right was torn off the bone um he has not been cleared for full contact but is pro participating in voluntary offseason workouts is that the right trajectory is he behind or are you expecting to be a full go when the season starts i think he hasn’t been cleared for contact because Jerry paid him and doesn’t want him hurt i don’t think it has anything to do with this hamstring at this point in time and uh the surgery that you do there is relatively simple i’m not worried about it from Dak from an injury perspective uh for Dak it’s offensive scheme obviously they added a wide receiver there’s some shuffle on the O line uh Brian Shottnimer knows how to call an offense i mean he was more on the offensive side of the ball always with my teams um even though his dad Marty was more defensive and special teams Brian was always more on the offensive side of the ball and so uh I’m not really worried about Dak Prescott but I know you and the boys are working hard on the preseason injury preview last year was what 80 pages this year it’ll probably be a hundred yep they get mad at me because I keep on adding all these players every single day but I mean like you said people keep dropping like flies you get more and more information with these OTAAS right um next one release it after our scout fish draft so we get an advantage no just joking that’s a smart idea though um next sport I want to jump into doc um by the way I just want to pump plug the sick picks uh three stars are 65% still and if it’s a three star pick um with a plus one and a half spread next to it doc we’re 18 and three this year three stars so that’s very very good so I I remember having this conversation with you when you see a plus one and a half and the team’s at home it seems kind of juicy right especially with the injury angles so we’ve been seeing a lot of stuff with our algorithm on that um I want to talk about real quick because I’m a huge Phillies fan obviously uh Bryce Bryce Harper um he got hit on the elbow on the hip by pitch same elbow he had the um UCL um uh surgery um placed on 10day do you think this is more something that’s going on there or do you think they just need to have a break with him and let him uh let that elbow heal from you saw you saw the video I believe i don’t think it has anything to do with the UCL okay and so I don’t see this as any long-term worry um obviously if he’s stiff and sore in the elbow I mean I don’t see it leaking beyond much beyond 10 days i don’t know what day he’s on now but the bottom line is this is not one of those elbow injuries that are related to his UCL that that there’s big concern for and they’ve moved him to first base now since that injury so he’s no longer even an outfielder and you saw when he was throwing that that took damage right you said the way he was throwing that will hurt his UCL they figured that out um got a couple other insights on B on baseball at sixcore.com uh Diamondbacks lost their $200 million pitcher um uh what’s it called tommy John surgery and then you had Show Otani he is scheduled for a live BP today June 9th are you expecting him to pitch at all this year or are they just playing the slow role until they figure out what’s going on with him i think everyone’s forgotten that he actually pitches right yes yes he’s such a good hitter they say they forget he’s two-way superstar yeah and they’re saying um um I got a comment here on Doc that they’re saying not just the elbow it’s the wrist for Bryce Harper and he dealt with the wrist last year so maybe they’re just giving him a break because he has um some issues with the elbow i don’t see anything like you know long term at all the one guy that I do have more worry about that initially was poo pooed was Lindor francisco Lindor where he got hit wasn’t really the toe it was the metatarsal for the fifth toe and if you really watch that video where he gets hit and great job by our team to slow it down so I can see it better um is more proximal more at the base towards the base of the toe and he reacts to getting hit but then when he pushes off the foot and the toe is when he actually collapses in pain and that’s why I was like this fracture is not a nothing and not just it’s just a toe and and Lindor said he’d play through it he’s fine he’s fine but that just means he’s a competitor uh I I think he leaks beyond the initial uh uh short-term IIL well I have an update on him so Lindor avoided he did return yesterday oh he did okay did return so I wanted to ask you a question just saw leading this mookie Betts also suffered a a toe fracture this is um one was hit by pitchland door mookie bets was walking to the bathroom at dark he said we all did it just this time I actually suffered a cancer he kicked something if it’s actually that the toe distally like a pinky toe i mean protect it buddy tape it live with it lindors I had some more worry about pushoff metatarsil and and uh yes I guess it’s front foot is he dhing or is he uh playing in the field i don’t know so they’re both shorts stops by the way so Mookie Bets is back in the field so his was the fourth toe so was the one closest to the pinky for Bets and then Lindor was the uh the pinky toe okay but I think that my worry on Lindor is more than the toe it was more the base and into the metatarsal i don’t know uh I think uh it’s great that he’s avoided IIL he’s missed a few games obviously um he was shorts stopped yesterday Doc but they did take him out of the game mid because they were winning by so many runs so do you think maybe it’s something that he probably can’t push for you know a full game maybe they’re just giving him a little I’m impressed if he’s playing shortstop with the on the broken base of the toe he’s 0 for five with 2ks yesterday so like you said maybe you know maybe an IIL stint was you know just hard there’s a difference between playing and healthy right yes yes that’s that’s the whole point of the six score so yeah go to um sixcore.com we have loads of MLB insights um go to our special um WNBA we’ve been doing really good this year 18 and 10 on our sick picks doc so like you said there’s injuries everywhere actionable especially basketball um so May 24th um big superstar WNBA Caitlyn Clark suffered a quad injury um she’s missed three games they alluded to it might be more than three games for but the thing is they said two weeks and you released a video saying you thought it was likely longer we are now at 17 days now and they just talked to her yesterday she said she’ll be re-evaluated la this weekend so the weekend before and now we’ll have this week to see what’s going on already ruled out this Tuesday tomorrow’s game uh your thoughts now that we’re past the two week uh threshold well look I get it she finished the game where she hurt the quad she said adrenaline or something but when they said two weeks I was like that’s just not realistic for a muscle injury or a tendon injury a strain of some sort i was like “Two weeks two weeks is when you’re at the airport and you originally had a uh uh 913 flight and they said uh 10 p.m 10:00 a.m that’s a check back with me time that’s not a real time that’s a check back estimated departure 10:00 a.m that’s just a check back with me time.” And that’s what two weeks was right then when when 10:00 a.m comes up they say they post 11:00 a.m right you know estimated departure time when they post 1217 now you’re real right right as a departure time and Caitlyn Clark just isn’t there yet and that’s why I said closer to a month and that’s where we’re getting so right now it’s still closer to two weeks we’re not right yet but but in another few days it will be closer to a month and we’ll be right it’s closer to a month it was never two weeks yeah yeah like you said and we had those updates in the videos at sixcore.com we’ll keep tabs on all WNBA we have an injury report uh written every week um and then WM uh the NBA real quick doc um we posted an offseason surgery tracker we have people like Zack Eddie getting ankle reconstruction surgery um and then we had Darius Scarland with his toe surgery out four to five months so we’ll keep on anytime stuff is leaked in the offseason NBA wise we’ll put that in our article um final topic doc I want to talk you through you mentioned it before uh the tush push so a couple weeks ago we had the vote um Green Bay Packers were one of the few teams that did not want this to happen it’s still going to be this year um you’ve been at the you’ve been saying for years don’t ban the play there’s there’s a way to stop it you could teach a class i’ve heard you teach it for two years sitting next to you so tell me now we just saw Josh John Gruden talk i love I love Coach Gruden always have been a big fan one of the highlights of Super Bowl week for me was meeting up with Coach Gruden and having breakfast with him uh awesome uh great guy and I we were talking about this tush push and and John Gruden today on Twitter maybe we’ll post the link here said “Don’t ban the tush push learn how to stop it and just because you run it doesn’t mean that it’s unstoppable.” Mhm and go to the video his Twitter he shows several different teams from the Bills to the Browns running the tush push and not having success with it i think the tush push is misnamed and what puts this in top of my mind is I actually just yesterday did a little rugby piece a rugby clubback in San Diego that really spawned a lot of USA rugby players the club that I worked with and I often get compared rugby and football the tush push the way Philadelphia runs it is a rugby play watch a rugby scrum versus a traditional gain one yard fourth and one in the traditional fourth and one in the NFL low man wins get low dive low wedge low root them out low man wins in rugby scrum it’s crouch engage and then you win watch the Philadelphia Eagles when they’re successful most of the time it’s not even the push in the tush of Jaylen Herz that gets them across it’s the continuous turnurning of the legs not only of Jaylen Herz but their offensive lineman and that’s like a rugby technique continuing to move your feet as opposed to anchoring and lunging and and getting down low in a tug-of-war does anyone ever win instantaneously very rare right the winning team is the team whose legs continue to churn and the losing team is the one that digs into the grass or the sand yep that’s what the Eagles do remember when Jason Kelsey used to get called off sides because he put his left hand down next to the ball which he’s legally can and they thought it was and nobody used that technique to put their hand down on the ground they thought they were calling Landon Dickerson for offside a couple times and it wasn’t even Landon’s arm if Landon’s arm was there it would be offsides it’s not offsides but Jason Kelsey was trying to get snap the ball and have be on all threes and then get his arm down on all fours and continue to army crawl and push watch the tush pushes and tush push is misnomer watch the eagles sneak it literally is boom and they win everyone else is boom and they stop and and I always love it whenever the defender leaves their feet and tries to go over the top they’re crowd surfing at a concert they’re out of the play they will lose you have to stay on the ground and keep turnurning your feet that is the key to the tush push’s success to me it’s leverage and doing that and go look at rugby and whatever go look at Gruden’s uh tweet where he goes “Look at all these teams that don’t do it well none of them keep turning their feet they all do the get low dive down and then try and win and so I believe if they banned pushing of a player the Eagles play would still be successful the majority of the time they don’t need the tush push the majority of the time Jaylen Herz just keeps wriggling his way and moving his feet as the Eagles line does and then he’s able to fall forward without even the push so even if they deband pushing the Eagles could still run their play do you remember the Commanders game in the playoffs where they penalized the guy like multiple times and they almost gave him a free touchdown just because they were so they were jumping offside so much because like you said once you’re jumping and leaving your feet you’re you’re already out of the play already you’re done jumping leaving your feet isn’t going to do it i mean you know I mean uh look let’s say you jump and leave your feet and you have both arms around Jaylen Herz if he turns his legs doesn’t he still push you forward if you’re not on the ground i mean you’re not going to bring him down that way jumping o over that was an interesting The only thing that was interesting about that and strategically I actually liked the way that they did that to try and because here’s the thing what if every time you the the Washington got penalized it started off as six inches then it was three inches then it was one and a half inches then it was not even an inch right they’re penalized you know if somehow that got the O line nervous Mhm and they jumped off it’d be a five yard penalty huge so it’s worth the gambit to like do that a couple times especially if you can’t stop them and what you might be hoping for isn’t that you so much stop them that you make the O line nervous that they need to get off the ball since you’re getting off the ball so quickly you get a false start that’s the game changer mhm it’s worth the risk like you said it’s arbitrage of a three inch penalty versus a 5yard penalty why wouldn’t you do that all day long so you agree with Gruden that you need to ban ban the Eagles offensive line before you ban the play right no you you you watch We’ll look back on this episode one day and say “Oh people have figured it out.” Every And at that point you you know it still wouldn’t be the push part that you ban it’s just but if the once every offense figures out the technique of keeping your feet and once the defense figures out the technique of keeping your feet and keeping even and treat it more like a rugby scrum you’ll actually have a chance to stop the play but then by that point you’ve committed so many people you watch the variations of spinning the ball out uh and uh getting touchdowns and and and so forth all right Doc that’s all I had for you uh just go to sixcore.com for all the insights we have multiple sports NFL Mo MLB NBA WNBA they’re all going at once right hockey Stanley Cup right now too wnba you’ve been hot i was like you sure we want to do WNBA but there’s but but you know I say it’s signal to noise there’s not a lot of signal for the injuries in WNBA so there’s stuff to take advantage of and heck uh we even had a rare play on uh the NBA game last night that that cashed the NBA finals i had a customer Doc ask about Canadian football so if they want more sports talk they asked for them okay i know some people in the Canadian Football League no we’re not it’s a lot of work yes anything we do we just want to be able to do it well is all exactly so anyways thanks for listening watching hopefully this is a good catchup version and get questions answered uh live format and uh we got to see next week I’ll be in Georgia with my son um at some baseball tournament 12U PG World Series that means something to somebody and not necessarily to me there you go sounds good all right thanks for 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