Welcome all to another injury review podcast with been cooking nose and Edwin poorest heard here on the fantasy free agents podcast bringing you the latest medical analysis and injury outlook for players across the league. Let's get to it now with more unrestricted unaffiliated unparalleled analysis from the guys.We are back fantasy free agents listeners actually more accurately. I am back. My name is Ben kookiness. You can follow me on Twitter at be kookiness and he is Edwin porous follow him on Twitter @ FF student doc the man who flew solo last week. Definitely appreciate that while I was out traveling I was I was up in Detroit and was looking forward to wearing my ego.Skier, which I always wear wherever I travel but it just didn't have the same pop on it considering the Eagles lost to the Lions. But you know, what are you going to do? Anyways, how you doing tonight Edwin? I'm doing fine man. I like you said flew solo last week and you know took the training wheels off and I think it went. Okay. Hopefully hopefully I can still fit in some some good info in there. But I hope you had a good trip and you know what the Eagles are just a half-game back in the in the end. F c/e so there's nothing to be too ashamed of right now. I mean she's second in the division crazy. I know as far as the eye test goes though a little bit different there - over the last few weeks. We asked about that test. That's right. Yeah, just like the read the record book. I can't believe we are in the second half of the NFL season. This is so this is going to be our did we do yeah, we did we've been going all season long for some reason. I thought that we had started our injury. I can't speak to but no this will be our ninth week in a row of the injury report here on the fantasy free agents podcast here to update you with some major stat major status or any status updates, especially when it comes to guys like AJ Green here to talk about some players returning players out and definitely some notable questionable zits is definitely that time where you're starting to make your playoff push and the last thing you want to hear is so-and-so is Questionable or so and so is out with you know for someone who's in your starting lineup. So hopefully we can provide a little bit more unique perspective from an injury perspective rather than just a purely fantasy football standpoint. So ready to get into it Edwin, let's do it. Let's do it. Oh and the Grinders I was going to say these are the Grinders who are still sticking with us. They're probably still above five hundred at least right? I think everybody that's two and six or tune or whatever one. Seven probably dropped off by now. Yeah. Yeah, definitely the one in seven, you know, if you're in a 12 team League where you have the buys for top two seeds and six guys make the playoffs. You can always sneak in at like 6:00 and 7:00 and those leagues, you know sometimes but I was going to add also on this podcast, you know, certainly looking forward to another edition of get to know Ben as I've mentioned before I'm podcast. It's only a matter of time before he loathes me into a false sense of security and gets my social security number out of him, but you know, we're probably not quite there. Are just like I started the podcast in the first place exactly. But now I had like we were saying before we started definitely appreciate everyone listening. We're still holding strong with the numbers all the downloads and all the streams definitely glad everyone's enjoying it and we certainly will be keeping it up all the way through week 17 for all of you weirdos that for some reason hold a fantasy football championship in week 17. Yeah guys stop that if you do that, Just stop it. Stop it. Yeah, I don't understand that either. I we did that the first fantasy league that I was ever in and I was like, this is stupid. Why don't we why are we doing this? Yeah, I'll do it all those exciting pointless games and week 17 to Turning determining who takes home the trophy. But yeah, let's get into it first some status updates on guys or someone who's been out for quite a while who I mean, we're just going to take a Victory lap on in the face of everyone say, Inge AJ Green can he return week three, can he return week for maybe even week 5 Horas case scenario. We have been here since before week one saying yeah, he's coming back week 9 or 10 and we're not sure why they didn't put him on IR. So I'm going to continue to beat that drum because we were dead on that saying don't expect AJ Green to be back any time within the first two months of the Season that said yeah, that was just a that said reports that he he might be practicing next week. So what do you know about AJ Green status and perhaps moving forward? Yeah, and it's not so much that we want to take a Victory lap on like not necessarily for his injury. Of course, it's Mommy. I mean there are going to be those people out there that probably interpreted it that way I didn't interpret that way. I know what you're saying because I'm with you but what we are saying is just people who just blindly take these reports that are seeing, you know people like, you know, their don't need to name any names big reporters out there, you know Big Time scoop. People who get the real scoop sometimes I think maybe go out of their Lane just a little bit to talk injuries and it's just it's a little funny. So anyway AJ Green. Yes, he is. He should put it this way. He can come back based off of his rehab and everything that's going on based off what we know that he started taking he started doing individual drills at practice this week after the by he should be good to go in terms of his injury and his surgery his Every as long as there's not any extenuating circumstances or anything like that the flip side where you sort of get out of well now that we're sort of getting out of the woods in terms of the injury, assuming that everything is going well in his planned is just what is what is the team thinking where is the team's head at right and that would maybe this might be a better idea of better question for for Tom and Joe simply because where are The Bangles going man? I mean, there's they stay there. They banished Andy Dalton's Yank on his birthday by the way happy. Yeah. They you know, they they don't have any of their top offensive linemen. They have they won a game. The the the Bangles The Bangles are I know I know I know I'm pretty sure like now it's making me it's making me question that because oh and their own 8. There they are. Yeah. So from that perspective like why don't know what the tendency is for teams usually do but why are you bringing back a wide receiver? Who is 31 years old after it? Do the trade deadline so it's not like they're trying to bring it back to increase his trade value. So right exactly so just like those those questions start to creep in and what do you really have to win? Because at this point really they're at the point where they have more to lose than they have to win to in winning any of these games in terms of draft picks. Yeah, so I don't know wouldn't surprise me if he if he may be waited until week 11, but he's ready to go at this point his injury and his surgery recovered, you know, his injury and his reconstruction was in July so you could see him We 10 but again, all those other questions are floating around and we always talk about when analyzing injury information from the medical perspective to still take into account the player, you know, the player himself or the player themselves and a guy like AJ Green is not one of those guys who he doesn't strike me as one of those guys who's going to say. Nah, man were rowing eight. You just benched our starting quarterback. Why am I going to come back to risk re-injury? Only strikes me as a guy who he's gone out there to play. Yeah, and he said that I think I've seen some yeah words where he's basically been like I just wanna get out there man. Like yeah, I don't blame him when your hus got to be frustrating for someone of that caliber. Yeah. Yeah you 31 years old footballs been your whole life. You know, you've only been on one NFL team your entire career. I'm sure he wants to get back out there. Yeah, absolutely. And you know what? It's something exciting for I'll say fantasy fantasy guys who have who took the chance and have him stashed. Li you have IR spots or actually enough nevermind I take that back hopefully maybe you have spots that allow for you to place a guy on IR if he is out. But yeah, it's exciting for fantasy players who took the chance on him, but it's also just sort of exciting for football fans in general and you know, yeah, we're going to see AJ Green with a different quarterback, which is going to be kind of odd. Yeah, it's I think the Bangles are going to what do you what's this guy's name on it? Forgot his name. I mean he's gonna inject some life until that Cincinnati Bengals offense, right? Yeah Ryan, right Finley, right? Yeah, Ryan family. There we go. The fighting Ryan Finley's. Let's see how it goes a couple other guys that we want to touch on as far as just a general status actually both guys from last night's game David Johnson and George kid'll Johnson. Play but he is expected back next week and then got to talk about church kid'll considering everyone sort of held their Collective breath Saint. It was the first playwright. I think it let was yeah. Yeah, it's pretty pretty early pretty early. He got now. He did get the MRI on his knee which looked good but it was revealed that he was also sort of dealing with other stuff. He's been battling through the ankle an ankle injury and then a groin injury. So obviously good news when the MRI looks good. I don't really think I don't think he's going to be missing any time like I don't think he's in Jeopardy of missing. Seeing the next game or the next couple games, but someone who's battling through injury like that. I know tight ends are tough and George Kittles. Probably a pretty much as tough as they come whether it be tight ends are just players in general but a guy who had an MRI on his knee also dealing with an ankle and also dealing with a groin injury that he's been dealing with for a few weeks. I mean at what point does that start at what point can we start to notice that or what point does that start to build up and Sort of slow someone down as much as you know, George Kittles going to be slow down which isn't that much. Yeah, that's a good point. The last thing that you said to it's a good thing to talk about because George George Kittles spark scores, like the athletic scores or whatever. He's in like the 95th percentile overall. He's just a just a just a freak of nature athlete and so even if these limitations even if these the you know, the ankle like you said the knee to the groin if they start to add up and they're all sort of minor. They seem to be it's like for a normal human like you and I we probably wouldn't be able to run up and down the field for him. He's probably you know, he's a little banged up but it's not it's not like he's completely healthy, but you and I think every player to a certain extent suffers through stuff like this. The scariest thing for me is the ankle specifically because everybody, you know, it's like you said sort of held their breath with the knee and it did look pretty nasty. The thing about in that knee is when it when you get hyper-extended like that a lot of the structures are actually already locked out and so you're not really damaging anything structurally when the knees in that position it I mean it certainly hurts and it definitely looks nasty, but you really are more concerned with the ankle because that that type of hyper extension is forcing your ankle into into that position where you could potentially get a high ankle sprain when your foot plants and your in your leg sort of shifts forward your tibia goes over your toe and sort of forcefully, that's what I'm worried about but Like you said, they're all relatively minor they get the mini by I don't think this will affect him too much down the road. I think that he'll get relatively healthy by next week. Well, I'm not just not just a mini by it's actually a mini by plus one that you always love it when a team has a Thursday night game and then a Monday night so they play on Monday night. Yeah, so he has a so he has 11 days, which is exactly what Kindle owners are wanting to hear. Ye 11-day 11 days, too. A lot band again. Nothing really serious will will be monitoring practice reports obviously throughout the week just just because it is a number of injuries, but all minor definitely last night. It looked worse than it ended up being on yet on the 49ers first offensive play of the game. So monitor has practiced reports, but he gets that full 11 days, which is an extra day more than a normal Thursday night team and should be good to go David. Johnson is expected back next week. How is how is he looking just just in terms of well, I mean I would say how is he looking at in terms of recovery or healing but then the other the flip side is Kenyan Drake is here now. Should I even if I mean if David Johnson is back seriously? Can we see him or what reason would they have to put him right back in the role of handling, you know 80% of the Touches at running back? I would certainly assume that they they have little incentive to risk him re-injury now that they have Kenyan Drake. Yeah, I agree with that 100% and the Cardinals are sort of doing their best Patriots impersonation Kingsbury is they're really really difficult when it comes to their injuries like we talked about. I think we did talk about the Cristian Kirk injury or I did last week and it was it just how we didn't even find out. It was a high ankle sprain until two weeks after it happened and clicking. They're like, oh, yeah. It's a high ankle. Well, so that's annoying. So the Cardinals are very very secretive with her injuries my theory and I mean, I don't want to call it a theory. I feel like it's a little more educated than that. But my thoughts are David Johnson had a regular lateral ankle sprain just sprained his ankle like everybody in the world has done and tried to come back to early. So you saw him go into the game for one play. He re-aggravated it which is very very very common and lateral ankle sprains and then they Not him. I don't think he's dealing with something season-ending. I don't think he's dealing with ice all speculations. Oh David Johnson to the IR but I don't think that's what he's dealing with. I think he's gonna come back but now you're right. The question is like holy cow sort of like the Austin Eckler thing. I had you take Kenyan Drake off the field after last night, right? Overall. I think he's he's from the health perspective. He's going to be okay and one other thing at least to mention Chase Edmunds was dealing with a hamstring injury. Well, right, right. I mean that the Stars aligned perfectly with Kenyan Drake, you know going to the Cardinals and having both of the starting running backs out. So a yeah, something else a monitor is Chase Edmunds. Obviously if Edmonds is out again next week and Johnson is back. I think that reassures some some people that Johnson will retain some rb2 status. I don't think he's going to completely fall off if he's on the field and Chase Edmunds is out. But yeah, definitely keep in Edmonds is dealing with a hamstring injury as well. Yeah, so I was going to say one last thing. Sorry. No think it's interesting. I listened to gosh. Was it Joe? And Tom? I don't know if it was Joe and Tom if it was another podcast that I was listening don't you don't you dare be advertising other podcasts on this is another another podcast there. There are other fantasy football podcast out there. Yeah. I don't think I don't know I should start a novel. So these people were talking about the construction the roster construction of the Cardinals and so where have we seen this before I have and I didn't say I didn't mention this to you off are so what are we seeing this before been a multitude of running backs? So are you talking about the Philadelphia Eagles? No, no, not quite. Okay, because because they have I think the last two seasons going into the preseason head six running backs on the roster. I'm pretty sure yeah. Yeah, well well, well listen here. Okay, listen to the rest of it so multitude of running backs all capable of doing different things a really solid defense a really really good defense a quarterback who won't go with Quebec. Okay, but an offensive line that can protect and a coaching staff that doesn't really 10 doesn't have a lot of Tendencies. They just sort of play week to week by the opponents. Well, you said you trip me up when you're like well won't talk about the quarterback, but I'm still gonna go with I'm still going to go New England Patriots. Yep. That's nope. Yep. That's exactly so I think it's interesting that that's the model and I went. Oh, that was the last thing that I missed is the really really good tight end like a generational tight end and I was like, holy cow. Holy cow that's like so true, but they're doing their best Patriots impersonation down to the T even to the injuries. I just thought that was interesting. Are you calling Ricky Seals J. Is he even still on the team Ricky Seals generational tight and wait our I definitely I definitely was thinking of George kittel because they played last night, but that's not what I meant to say. Oh, okay II know that I shouldn't have mentioned the Titan. Yeah. Okay. Let's take a quick break. And when we come back to talk about some players who probably are returning may be returning and then a few a few studs who are likely out for a few weeks or maybe even more we'll be right back. What's up? Listen? Nurse this has been kookiness producer of the fantasy free agents podcast on anchor FM podcasting. I've been producing podcast and chose for my friends and colleagues Joe Dolan and Tom Bradley for years now. So when we decided to start the fantasy free agents podcast, it was imperative. 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We just talked about some status updates or the few guys that we are. Well AJ Green, hopefully we'll see him in the next few weeks David Johnson expected back next week and George kid'll be a collective sigh of relief as the MRI looked good on his knee now to get into probably some really exciting stuff players that we haven't see neither for a week or in a few cases longer returning to the field in week nine or possibly returning to the field in week 9 with the exception of one guy who I think they're just playing around with us with us fans right now, but let's start out with the guy who has derailed my fantasy team by his absence and false. Hope week after week Davante Adams. Finally, finally. Yes. Yeah. I think it's the finally I think it's finally time. So after five weeks, right I saw the better a very dramatic tweet from from a reporter that said for the first time in 38 days Davante Adams Dawn's his his Green Bay Packers helmet and shoulder pads and I felt the entire tweet. I was living for it because I loved it and I was I'm listen man. I'm in the same spot as you are. I'm currently foreign for Davante Adams has been hurt the last, you know, three or four week for five weeks at this point. I want him. Back in today just today. I saw a video of him literally leapfrogging one of his sketches. Yes, that's right. Yeah, he I watched I was saw that too and that's one of those videos where because you and I have talked about before, you know is a video analysis is it worthwhile is and not this one is absolutely worthwhile. So first of all, he's jogging pushing all I was I was going to say, why is this worthwhile? But the video of sake want a week after his injury not worthwhile. No. No I'm saying yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I got to get some clarification here. Okay, so the first First thing let's say Quantas. Nobody had ever seen say an up-close videos take one. So that was already bias like the dude probably looks looked at like that all the time, right? So even with the injury probably didn't get slow down that much the second thing is he was off to the side doing individual drills, and it was also just speculation that he was able to put on pads and run full speed against contact like those are two totally 100% different things. However with turf toe your A major concern is just Mobility straight up painless mobility. And so to see Davante Adams jogging first of all and then going into what you call maximum maximum plantar flexion, which is really just like flexion of the toe. You have to completely Flex the big toe to jump up in the air and he jumped up over freaking coach just to remind her how athletic these guys are jumps over is coach and puts both both toes into that that is that relatively Extension relative extension and that's exactly what you want to see because that's what he's going to be doing off the line of scrimmage with this specific particular injury, you are worried and concerned with them pushing off the line of scrimmage planning putting their foot in the ground and cutting and that's exactly what you saw him do in a very very like slowed sample, obviously, but it but just based off what I saw that's something that he's gonna be able to do full speed and let's face it. It's been five weeks. I don't think I think it's past the threshold of our they Bring him back. No, it's been five weeks right there. It wasn't the week after cause you know, remember he it was Thursday night. So he had the ten days and man. Those were the good old days when they were speculating. Wow. Is he gonna miss any time after that Thursday night game? Yeah. So I mean it's been five weeks to me. It doesn't seem like a case of rushing back or re-injury. This isn't it's not a hamstring or anything like that, which we know can really really linger in this case. The turf toe was more severe than we thought. And you know as the week's went on we were like Yep. This is this is a higher grade injury. So I'm not personally I'm not concerned of limitations Mobility re-injury. I'm expecting Davante Adams to be a hundred and ten percent now that he's back. Yeah, I do too. I'm 100% on board with that and my fantasy team needs it. Yeah, someone who maybe won't be a hundred percent and someone who is not a hundred percent. He's coming back and frankly in Is locker room press conference seemed slightly nonchalant about his comments. And someone who we haven't seen for an even longer period of time building this up as much as I can it be and someone who now, let's just get into it. DeSean Jackson DeSean Jackson. Haven't seen him play since week one week one. I mean, I thought you were gonna say Josh dachshund or something. Oh, yeah Long Live Josh Dotson. Yeah. That was that was an interesting ride a lot of us that I mean, I recall a lot of text conversations with Joe and Tom and just slowly the faith and the Hope just dying out doing right? Yeah, just gradually but yeah DeSean Jackson questionable right now in the locker room. He was asked are you you know playing this week and his response was that's the plan obviously I don't think you know, if he said it with a little more Gusto or enthusiasm I would be more enthusiastic, but it It does look good. It certainly looks better than last week and it's and it's looking a whole lot better than the last few weeks. So what if you had to assign a rough percentage do we see DeSean Jackson this week? And then the second question is do we see him how close to a hundred percent do we see him? Because again, it's been it's been eight weeks. There's been yes set seven seven to eight weeks, but it's it definitely seems like something that you know, They might want him. They might want him to play. However that said and then I'll let you get into it. Doug Peterson did say hey, I know this it's the week before the Eagles by so they could have said we're going to hold them out and you know, give him another two weeks. But Peterson went on the record and said all these games are all these games are really meaningful if there's a guy who can play just because it's the week before the by he's going to play and again Jackson said, that's the plan. What do you think? I love when you tear me up like this with Eagles players because I literally have to do no work. You've done all the work for me. I'll show ya there you go reconnaissance work. I just have to give injury. I just need you. I just need you to throw out fancy words that I don't understand. Okay? No. No, I mean that's what you you helped me out a lot with these players. The here's the thing. I have become a an Eagles fan by proxy this season doing this podcast with you. I will watch I will secretly don't tell anybody. I'm a Seahawks fan. Because I'm in Kansas City and it's blasphemy that you're not a giant Chiefs fan when the middle of the Mahomes Mania but alas here I am so I'll keep up with the Chiefs because I'm here. I'll keep up with the Seahawks and then I always have to check on the Eagles. So I've been wanting to Sean Jackson to come back to show how he still has Carson Wentz join the club. It's Carson Wentz so has Doug Peterson. Yeah. So is the entire state of Pennsylvania? I can only imagine the thing about his injury. Is that more than likely it's it's it's his groin that is going to be considered a core muscle injury, right or a sports. Hernia. I think that's what's ailing him. I would not be shocked. It would not be totally surprising to hear that DeSean Jackson has surgery when the season ends. I was literally going to ask that. Yeah. Hmm, I would not be surprised if he has surgery when the season ends and considering everything that you just had me up with those are 100% all the thoughts going through my head is that if they can rehab this if they can, you know, hold them together with with tape and Chicken wire. I don't know what that phrase is. I just like heard it before I think that's what it's called. Then if he comes back he's going to come back at a clip that for DeSean Jackson probably isn't 100% if we're being one with we're being honest if we're being 100% transparent, you're not going to see, you know, DeSean Jackson from last year even probably know I wasn't expecting I'm not expecting a hundred percent if you get but if your I mean, but if you're telling me that the Eagles will get DeSean Jackson back a 80 to 90% just so he can take the top off the defense not even be an actual, you know, touchdown threat necessarily but just keeping the defense honest because God they've crowded those boxes for once all season long if they if he can come back and do that, which I think he's fully capable of doing I think that he comes back but what I'm trying to say here I guess is that in just based off what I know. They've already made the decision. He's either going to come back. The relative 100% this week or they're going to give him until the bye week and just like we were saying, you know every game does count for the Eagles and this week they play the Bears which is yeah when a bowl game I would say with true Biscay under Center good Lord. Yeah, it's a fun but I'm not, you know don't expect a pretty offense going against the Bears defense. They'll also that also that it's to me right now. I think it's a 50-50 chance. It doesn't like you said, it doesn't sound convincing and I would not be shocked if they waited until after the by at the same time if medical staff is looking at him and saying, you know, there's nothing structurally speaking that we can do. There's nothing else we can possibly do to the offseason. You know, how do you feel and he says I mean I feel about as good as I'm going to feel it's been eight weeks. He's going to be a go, but just to know what we're which direction it'll swing. We don't know yet. It's 50/50 folks. You were listening to this on Saturday November 2nd. We're recording this Friday night Friday November 1st. So let Records show Friday, November 1st at 8:15 p.m. Eastern time Ben. Kookiness DeSean Jackson will play this week. Let's do it. Let's see it lets say by the way, if I'm if I'm wrong, we're not bringing it up next week. Yeah, right just completely bury it just ignore it. Yeah. Absolutely. I'll go back into the podcast and you know edit it so that I can never like in every Jean Jackson will not yeah. This is actually go. Um, A couple Yeah, couple other receivers, you know, what now? We'll start with the pat Mahomes because I think I think you and I are both in agreement that he I don't know. He's questionable and we have seen some video for him, but I'm not I'm still not totally convinced. He's going to play like to really only miss one week. I met where do you stand on a home? She hasn't been ruled out certainly that if that changes, you know, but by the time this It was up. That's a pot that's possibility. But where do you stand on my Holmes's week 9 status? Yeah. I don't see him coming back just quite yet. He the thing is the injury that he had. It's just it's an instability injury, which essentially means once they reduced that patella back into place. It wasn't super super severe anymore. Oh, that's how a lot of dislocations work. You just have the not to get too into the weeds here. When you have a dislocation of any joint your body that when it's in that dislocated, Position it's it's you know, damaging structures. It's in a place where it's not supposed to be it's sort of like trying to like parking garage in the garage and then you drive into the wall. It's not it's just not where it's supposed to be. Right? So you cause you cause damage you calls cause swelling your brain is like, holy crap what's going on here? It starts to shut down the muscles in the area. So rehab is going to take some time and if you look at soft tissue healing times, which are available on the Google machine if you just Google it he's right now. Technically speaking in the in the middle stage. There are three stages. He's in the middle stage. It's not quite remodeling yet. And so that you know his stability the muscles around the joint still need to stabilize themselves. Get back to normal his you know, he needs to sort of start making making more Quick Cuts and stuff like that things that he's gonna have to do on and off the field and he's just not ready yet. It's going to be another week at least another week at least. Okay. Well, well, I'm sure we'll revisit will Visit this discussion in another week and hopefully DeSean Jackson doesn't play any if I'm wrong. You can come in and out of my party. Now, he's playing there's no hopefully he doesn't, you know did he's playing a reiterated doubling down 8:17 p.m. Friday addiction were first yeah a couple other receivers to get to before we talk about guys who are likely out for a week or more. We'll start with I guess the biggest news or some one of the biggest news is Josh Gordon. We haven't seen him since towards the beginning of October. He got knocked out in a game against the Giants on the Seahawks now, obviously, it's sort of cutting it close to sign with a new team and be ready to play. But what can we what can we expect from Gordon more so from an injury standpoint? Yeah, so he he passed his physical physical if the Patriots that's that's of note so we know he Doesn't have something crazy like a you know, a fracture or you know, a dislocation or you know, a tendon rupture anything like that. So we've ruled tier one issues out tier two issues would be something you know, I would consider like a high ankle sprain or we're like a fractured thumb for receivers something. I don't think he's quite there either. I think if I had to speculate what happened is that he had a because it wasn't there was a knee injury and you need right? Okay, so I think that Just had sort of a stretching of the ligaments nothing specific. If anything maybe like an MCL that usually take three two or three weeks to heal anyway, and so I don't think he's got anything anything concerning and especially since he's sitting out yet another week now that he's with the Seahawks which I don't know how much that actually helps Seahawks but I won't talk about that even core. So anyway from an injury perspective. I think he's gonna be just fine. But I mean, what are you going to do? You're going to bring in one of the most athletic receiver? Is that the NFL has and then hand the ball to Chris Carter hand off the ball Chris Carson another five times like what he'd I don't know. Yeah, Chris Carson. He's certainly look good this this year and one other thing on on some little bit of what you said for those listening to the podcast. Yeah. Certainly we're taking a medical approach with everything a lot of this is fun speculate. I don't want to say fun speculation because we're talking about players being injured, but it's so many times. Do we have to Guests and read between the lines and infer what's going on based on length of injury because so often teams don't come out and say this person has a grade two sprain right person has a lateral sprain anything like that. So a lot of what we talked about on here and certainly a lot of what Edwin brings to the table is educated speculation based on things like timetable any MRI reports any notable quotes from coaches all of that. So I mean, yeah, it's often times or I would say more often than We don't know exactly what's going on, but we can make some good educated guesses based off of things. Yeah, things like that things like timetable one more receiver to get to Adam thielen missed last week, but I was looking for his practice status on Friday. So he got unlimited practices Wednesday and Thursday, but missed last week with a hamstring injury. Obviously, we hate seeing that word hamstring, especially when it comes to a stud receiver like thielen but What do you think about his chances for week nine? So he's got a I would say maybe a 60/40 chance 60 plays 40 who doesn't just because based off of the you know, the same study of quoted all year that hamstring injuries can cost, you know between one and three weeks to completely recover. You just saw Chase Edmunds go out with one. That means they looked at the MRI and they said oh, yeah, it's this is yeah. This is you know, a great probably agreed to this is going to be on the higher side. I had the thing about feelings is that the he sat out the entire second half when he heard it in the first place and then the MRI said, you know Feelin they definitely rule them out pretty quickly for the following week. I know it was a quick turnaround, but it's still you it's not very often. You see that so that's what makes me a little hesitant to be confident. He'll be active this week and considering that he was still limited most of the week. So like I said 60/40 chance if he goes, I don't really have many reservations like if he goes he's More than likely ready to go and just he's gonna be fine. I'm just a little skeptical that Hill what I like that not skeptical. I guess I'm just hesitantly optimistic that he will be active. Yeah thielen he did say quote in this league. It's all about being close to a hundred percent on game day. So I got to feel like if he's in the, you know, 60 70 percent. They might hold him out. So he's going to have to be as close to a hundred percent as possible. Meaning if we do see him on the field we can probably expect Yeah, close to a hundred percent close to regular Adam thielen, maybe not production, but close to regular Adam thielen effort speed all you know catch possibility all of that stuff. Yep, moving on to a few players who are definitely out and certainly unfortunately like for a week or more. We'll start with T. Why Hilton who is expected to be out for I saw some reports of two to three weeks. I saw some reports for three to four weeks, but dealing with the calf. Vishu and yet Frank Reich said that his injury could pull them out multiple weeks. So never liked hearing multiple weeks, but calf injuries in general and then certainly talk about to UI health and and when we might be able to see him return to action, yeah, so it's a little not concerning I suppose but maybe you could use that word to think that right came out and was like, oh, yeah. This is this could be up to three weeks. So, you know, he spoke to the medical staff. Because the medical staff probably told him that it's a calf strain. What you worried about with caps trains is the Kevin Durant situation right from last summer had a calf strain close to the calcaneal tendon or it's known as the Achilles tendon. He come back to early that tendon gets overloaded. It's already under stress muscles aren't ready, you know quite ready to quote unquote fire and you get unfortunate situations that are probably correlated. So you're going to be careful you're gonna be careful with the receiver like Like like T Y Hilton who's just a Speedster? And so if you look at literature A lot of the literature will tell you that you know, if you have like a grade one, it'll be up to three weeks, you know even a great to can be up to six weeks. And so it's probably hovering somewhere between a first and a second degree because he wasn't a walking boot. He didn't participate in practice all week. And he's just he has these the soft tissue injuries that happen to him. This contractile muscle like issues that he has Pretty recurrently I was going to I was going to say real quick. He gets banged up a little he gets banged up a lot. Yeah. Yeah, but Since it how guess how many games he has missed in his career because I feel like we see him could we constantly see him on the injury report dealing with minor injuries. Guess how many games he's missed in his career. So going back to 2012. I feel like it's I'm right there with you. I don't think it's that many. I think it's probably live 500 dang. I was gonna double house and say damn that's that's what cow. That's what I'm saying. And I think that's pretty significant when we think about this because for a guy that man Place through everything like he plays through absolutely everything and he's missed a trooper fight. Yeah, and he's missed only five games. So I think this tell I think this it's pretty telling that he's going to be out three to four weeks and that a guy who placed her everything. I think this means there is a solid, you know, there is cause for concern here. Yeah. Definitely. It's something that if you are in a league, maybe consider what you have what? Options are and just know that this is this is like Ben was saying I mean the guy doesn't miss time. He usually plays through, you know, everything and he's in a walking boot now and they're definitely going to probably take it easy with him because if you I mean it's super hard to believe but I think the the Colts are right, there are chasing the Texans, you know in the AFC whatever division that is on try to remember what division that is, but there is a JSC South. Yeah. I mean they're right there and if they're In playoff run they're definitely going to wait 40 y to get to get healthy. So they're actually something to consider half game. They actually have game above the Texans. Oh, are they? Okay. Yeah game and real quick in those five games that Hilton has missed. What's the course record to go? 500 + 5. I believe that five hundred percent. I don't want it. I don't want to make too much out of the end and out of this injury and it's entirely possible. He only misses the three weeks, but I think it is worth pointing out that for a guy. Who is constantly banged up but yet continues to play through it in. His only missed five games is is going to be sidelined for a while. I think that is telling just maybe in terms of the severity of the injury. Yeah. Yeah, 100% agree moving on. I want to briefly touch on Brandon Cooks. I know dealing with the concussion. I know that's not we don't really talk about concussions on the podcast. We talk, you know, we talked about mcls ACLS, huh? Got spray and lisfranc all that kind of stuff, but I think it's worth mentioning because Cooks is sort of be piling them up. He's probably the concussions up is seeing. Yeah. He's going to see a specialist. This is second concussion in just this month within a month. So he's gone to see a specialist when you know, how far along is the worry your is the worry bar. Now that these concussions are sort of piling up and especially since he's seeing a So it's not one of those things where they're just shutting him down until he passes conduct concussion protocol. Yeah, My worry is high for his health. Yes that yeah when that's what that's what I'm talking about like yeah long-term. Yeah. No. No what I well what I was going to say is you know, what I think about his health is going to be completely different than what the Rams think about playing. Do you know what I mean? What the ramps is will do with because the reality of the situation is once a player passes concussion protocol, you know, they're they're clear the problem is this This is Cooks his fifth document. Yep. If documented concussion. Once you pass the threshold of to the research tells us that you are much more prone to getting another one and it's you know, the it's they can only probably you can speculate it can only get worse as you as you continue to mount them up. So I wouldn't you know, the Rams have a by this week. I wouldn't be surprised if he's not even backed by by week 10 it all depends on what the specialist says him to be. With you, I'm not entirely sure what he's looking for going to a specialist The Specialist is going to do one clinical exam on him going to look at his medical history is going to be like, yeah, man. I mean you probably shouldn't play football anymore. If we're being one of them. I was going to say I was going to say, I mean we can produce this from a fantasy perspective, but at this point, I think it's so exciting to watch Brandon Cooks and you hate to see this. So just coming from more of a player perspective and a human perspective. You hate to see someone like Cooks suffering and now his fifth his fifth concussion. Yeah, and just for For reference to you just saw Sterling Shepard who you know got to he got that one and week one and then I forgot where the last one was what week it was that he got it but he you know, he took his time and he said he came out an interview. He said, you know, I look at my family. I look at my kids and I say I'm going to take my time and I'm going to take some time to recover. I'm going to take some time for myself and to really think about where I am and I think that's I think that's a cool move. I can't ever say that. It's the right move necessarily, but I think that taking a step back. Saying okay. Where are we at in the grand scheme of things is super important. But from from a fantasy perspective, I would plan to be without Brandon Cooks at least, you know because of the by this week and then probably probably probably yeah probably next week as well someone else who is seeing a specialist Cam Newton. Yeah, we're not going to see any QB controversy because he's yeah reportedly seeing a foot specialist. He was dealing with the list Frank injury and was pretty optimistic actually. We in the beginning. I don't think anyone initially saw this as something that would linger all the way to you know, we you know, we're in week nine now so Cam Newton's going to see a specialist about a list for lisfranc injury. We've mentioned lisfranc injuries before but for those listeners who are perhaps new to the podcast maybe talk a little bit about how hobbling a lisfranc injury can can be especially for a guy like him Newton who has who has Made or has made a name for himself as a runner, but in recent years he hasn't run that much but just in general lisfranc injury for quarterback. He hasn't played since week two and certainly Kyle Allen going for and one in his absence gives the Panthers a lot of confidence as not to rush Cam Newton back. So the fact that he's now seeing a specialist. Are we going to see Cam Newton for the next four or five weeks? I I can't I can't say I can't say yes. I don't know. Yeah, and it's difficult because the most common complication you see so okay. So you said talk about lisfranc lisfranc injury is right in the middle. The region is right in the middle of your foot sort of in between your your metatarsal heads. So the the long bones that lead to your toes right in the middle of your foot in between your first second and third that's the region that's affected. So he's either Got a ligament damage in that region be bone damage in that region or see cartilage or and even da, you know combination of all of those. So the what I'm concerned about with him is that he's telling dealing with a very it's the same Condition. It's osteoarthritis that that Todd Gurley has been diagnosed with because it can happen in any joint in your body when you're as big as Cam Newton is and you take as many hits as he has and probably landed on that foot over and over repeatedly in that same region. That region of your of your foot is relatively. I don't want to use fragile, but it's definitely susceptible to injury when you get hit as much as in these big dudes, you know cams like six five two sons like 240 or something. He's yeah, he's a mom. Yeah, he's huge with all that axial Force going downward through his foot in that extended position that stuff and I and I what I would have to say is that he probably is dealing with I don't think it's unreasonable to say that he's probably dealing with A component of osteoarthritis because that stuff just doesn't go away. I mean that's chronic condition and it's very difficult to to heal and you know, that's probably something that he's that he's fighting and dealing with because like you said it's been going on for so long. Another so yeah, Kyle Allen will continue to start moving on to another Allen who is going to be making a start as Brandon Allen back up to Joe Flacco who was placed on IR with a herniated disc in his neck. I I was laughs. I don't mean to I don't want to laugh at obviously an injury, but I have to laugh at how terrible John Elway he is at a very affordable ex especially John Elway says about Like oh we feel like he's just really coming into his prime. He's a perfect fit for us. Really? What a Joey's right? Yeah Hall of Fame Legend Super Bowl winning quarterback John Elway. You feel like Joe Flacco was just coming into his prime. Okay. All right, let's move. Yeah, I'm away from man. I I don't I don't understand this group. Think just because you're good at you know, playing does not mean you have any idea we're doing as manager the best example that I love to give with people who like make this our I meant that John Elway knows what he's doing just because you're the best server the best waiter the best waitress in the restaurant does not mean you have the first clue what it takes to manage an entire restaurant or bar true, you know? Yeah that it's a good. Yeah, he might have no idea what he's doing, but we're giving him credit for something because he's good at something else. You know that said, I do think the vast majority of people share the sentiment that John Elway is is absolutely horrendous at evaluating quarterback talent. I think I think the vast Majority of people think that but I mean, I guess what does this mean for Joe Flacco in the long term, I think actually herniated disc in his in his neck. I don't think we've really touched that much on herniated disc. We've talked about sports hernia. So we've talked about weird injuries, like sternoclavicular dislocation and tyriq wills I get that right names and you got that. Yeah, that's right. See I'm learning. I'm learning as we go along but we have really talked about herniated. Ask in your neck. So how I mean how limiting can that be? I mean he's going on IR so we don't have to talk about you know, how much time is he going to miss but moving forward and I guess the rehab process for Flacco. I'm I don't think he's going to have surgery. I think he's going to just try and heal with rehab but talk a little bit about something like a herniated disc in your neck. Yeah. So quick plug here for the General Public. If you've ever been told that you have a herniated disc anywhere in your anywhere in your back or your neck join the club 50% of asymptomatic individuals have this creations and vice versa. So after you get to the age of like 25-30 everybody has herniation is it doesn't always cause symptoms but I think that a lot of times, you know, some healthcare professional scare other people, but when it is traumatic the way that Joe Flacco's was obviously it now it is it is symptomatic for him and it was because it was you Caused by an axial force that essentially protruded the disc and the disc is connected to the spinal cord where all of the nerve Roots exit. And so when you have that situation you get a very very first of all you have obviously mechanical disruption of the the tissue itself which which is damaging and painful causes pain. You also get a just a flood of inflammation and inflammatory markers that are extremely stubborn and don't go away and don't let the essentially the the nerve don't let it breathe. So Nerves like movement, they like room and they like fluid and when you have that sort of damage to them, they can't do their job and they get really really pissed off and so it has probably notice and tingling. Sorry if you can edit that out. I don't know. I've been trying to keep it clean you have numbness and tingling down all the way through your hand. Sometimes it's your arm feels heavy your neck hurts your shoulder hurts. It's definitely not an injury that is amenable for for an NFL quarterback. You know, it's the exact opposite of what you want. You don't want your quarterback having numbness and tingling all the way through his arm and neck but the good news is these respond another plug for physical therapy these respond incredibly well to physical therapy. You almost you almost I don't want to say always but you almost never need surgery. If you get you know, if you get in with a good physical therapist and Rehab your way out of this out of the this injury, so that's what he's doing with in the future and it's just such a shame that he's just coming into his prime right now. Sorry. I'm late. I sense some sarcasm one one. We have one more left there one other guy to touch on who okay, he's not technically out. He wasn't hasn't been ruled out yet. But James Conner, he's not going to play. He's not going to play didn't practice all week not going to play dealing with a shoulder injury. He's given the unofficial designation of doubtful. Do we see do see Connor return to we see kind of return next week, you know you I've been saying since the beginning that we shouldn't take for granted some of these injuries that happen. You know, though. It's relatively minor that's not always the case with an instance. This is an instability issue that I just in my head. I clasp it classified them that way it's not truly truly a way you can classify them but it's an instability issue where the acromioclavicular joint that little that space in between their those ligaments got disrupted and so he's dealing with basically what amounts to a shoulder separation or an injury like it and and those you don't want to just throw a player back out there because it's the exact same thing. Like I just said with Patrick Mahomes those muscles need to re-stabilize the brain needs to know that the restabilized and he needs to be able to make that motor control connection to those muscles. Otherwise, it's going to be you know, just another sort of recurring vicious cycle and he could reinjure it. You could see him back next week with injuries like this. They have been known to cause up to four weeks of Miss time. I don't know if that's necessarily the case. Connor but that definitely would be worst case scenario and what has a chance to come next week come back next. What's interesting. So even if he has a chance to come next week, what's interesting is I think actually he might have a better chance to come or to return next week in that he has been some games. He's been the Workhorse with Jalen Samuels out and other games. He's only he's had I think he's had a few games with you. No less than 15 carries. So I think we could see him next week just for the for the sole fact that the Steelers have placed a lot of trust in jail and Samuels as sort of the yeah. He's the number two, but he's sort of is on the edge of the number 2 / number one be you know, this is Connie. This is Connors backfield, but we've seen Jalen Samuel step up. So I think when you have a guy like Samuels back there that you don't necessarily want to give a full workload to if you don't have to we might see Connor back in in a bit of a split even if he gets maybe he only gets Nine carries our next week but this week is looking good for Samuels. Mainly, you know, Connor is going to be out in then Benny Snell is missing two to three weeks now as well. So if you got hopefully you handcuffed Connor with Samuels so that you won't really skip a beat here. Yeah, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are making a push for the playoffs didn't you know be traded for Mika Fitzpatrick for quarterback goes down trade for makeup. It's Patrick. That's the formula makes perfect sense. I wanted make on the Eagles, but that's a conversation conversation. I wanted a lot of them. A lot of guys I wanted a lot of guys on the Eagles, but I'm one of the local high school Star Quarterback. Then let's be honest. I'm not a I'm not a front office man. So, you know, I just I just sit here with a $350 microphone in record podcasts every Friday. You know what I love it love it. We're going to take one more break and I will tell you a bit about our sponsor and when we return we'll get into some notable questionable, 's ahead of week nine Sunday action. 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So you never miss an episode and now back to the unrestricted unaffiliated unparalleled analysis of the fantasy free agents. Welcome back here for the final segment of the week. An injury report here on the fantasy free agents podcast. I am Ben kookiness. He is Edwin porous and I'm about to go on a small rant about the New England Patriots because that's always fun at least from an injury perspective you and I were talking about a few guys that have popped up on the injury report ahead of week nine action. We know the Patriots play things close to the close to the chest. We know that that's never surprise on their website. They haven't even updated their injury report to week 9 like not even Like they haven't even mentioned it like it's not even an option to click the drop-down and if you week 9 so, yes, we can get information from beat reporters and everything like that as we talk about guys like Edelman and James White but come on New England like it's still showing Patriots versus the Browns injury report not quite know what blows my mind to you or like what I've thought about with this stuff like that. Is that all of that stuff trickles down to like The website director or whatever like the would like the intern, you know and just the fact that Bill Belichick tell like comes from the top trickles down through the entire organization down to the like poor little intern who's like don't post the practice report yet and the interns like but it's against the rules until belches. Like I know that's all I give I give Bill Belichick credit where credit's due greatest NFL head coach in history, but come on week knows the rules Israeli report. Let's touch on a couple. Guys, Julian Edelman Edelman dealing with the chest James White dealing with the toe injury. So white did so he appeared as a limited participant in practice finding out through other avenues since you can't find it out on the Patriots website. Um, so yeah James White dealing with the toe Julian elements still dealing with the chest, but and for the record Rex Burkhead also on the injury report and they're all listed as questionable. Are they all going to play? I'll be honest James White that does concern me a little bit. Not element. But yeah, yeah, the James White one is a little concerning simply because he popped up on a Friday that's not common and Fridays are last, you know practicing. Usually we like to see limited practice limited practice full practice not full practice limited practice limited practice. Exactly. Yeah, and so, you know, it's probably a component of a turf toe type injury. If we're if we're thinking about what's most common playing the odds that's always going to be up to the players preference at this point. If it's not a grade to anything below a grade 2. It's going to be up to the players perception of the pain and how they feel. So what this means for me, at least I'm thinking that you know, the the the toe is was damaged not damaged it was you know, whatever aggravated in practice they're going to say on some they're going to probably let him sit through the walkthrough. Through they're going to say on Sunday. How are you feeling? He's going to say, you know, I'm feeling X or Y and they're probably going to say, okay. Well then let's get you some like lidocaine novocaine will shoot the toe up and then you can play or they'll say okay. It's that bad. No. Okay. Let's just have you sit out. So at this point with James White just because we don't know the severity I'm saying, he's 50/50 that he'll be active and even if he's active I don't know how productive will be. Yeah. Yeah, not that. That makes sense. I think we can make light of guys when they practice when they pop up on the Patriots practice report. But again showing up on a Friday definitely a question mark and something to closely monitor more than more than normal when it comes to Patriots guys on the injury report move moving on a actually a plethora of wide receivers Hollywood Brown. We haven't seen him since the beginning of October dealing with ankle and ankle and a thigh injury. What do you think is week nine chances are I think he's ready to go right now so mean Y'all going against the it's funny, you know white going against the Ravens and Hollywood Brown going against the Patriots. Yeah, exactly. That's I guess that's a relative term but from a fantasy perspective his I think from a medical perspective. He's definitely good to go just because I'm reading between the lines here like I usually do and it's it's a he was out like you said since October. He didn't play, you know with the last couple of weeks he had to buy week to rest up and in terms of what type of Injury he had I think that he had a high ankle thing going on high ankle sprain, you know, people don't like to hear that high ankle sprain but you know, there are lesser versions of it. I think that's what he was had going on simply because of the time the time frame and everything. So I think now that he had the bye week. Like I said to to sort of rest up that he should be he should be good to go and I'm looking at his practice report right now. I can't pull it up. I don't know if you have it up been the because of the Raven. It's Ravens practice had the Ravens practice board. They didn't have I didn't have it up. But okay, here we go. Yeah his alright so his pride report perfect set. Yeah his injury reports. So now it now he limited practice Wednesday Thursday didn't practice Friday. I think we got two things is good. Yeah, I think well, I think we can make two things. I think of that I think we can say oh, that's the bad look or I think we could say he got enough practice in Wednesday. They that they wanted to give him rest on Friday. You know that I think that that's probably more so the case I don't see him aggravating something like that again, especially like I said, they were coming off the bye week there were probably taking it pretty slow. And so I yeah, I think it's probably more so what you're saying, but I mean we could always be wrong. There's always a chance that's not what's going on in that he did, you know downgrade but and the considering everything considering the entire situation. I think that that what you said in terms of, you know, they saw a knife out of them as Lee more likely and certainly on the Ravens website for their week nine injury report normally teams on their websites. They'll have the injury report for both teams, you know of the opponent. So yeah good. Guess what's not on the Ravens of week nine injury report page that page Shreya the the Patriots. That's why Pride. That's the last shot. I'm taking I promise. I promise ya boy and have for this episode knowing moving on to some jazz. Wires DD Westbrook and DJ charc charge of dealing with a quad Westbrook dealing with both a neck and shoulder injury. I mean, I want to see some Minshew magic with Westbrook and with Westbrook and Chuck. Yeah, and I think that you'll get it with definitely with charc Westbrook is dealing with what I believe to be as an issue similar to what Flacco has now again, it's all on a scale. It's all relative. Simply because they said that you have shoulder and neck pain and nine times out of ten when you have shoulder and neck pain. They are very very until intimately related and you can't really tease out which one is causing the other without an exam. So even though I don't know for a fact generally if it's just a general shoulder like a contusion or a muscle strain or something. You don't see neck issues with that. And so I'm wondering if he has some sort of you know acute radiculitis is what you would call it or whatever you radiculopathy and so potentially has some numbness and tingling. It might not go all the way down his arm or anything like that. It might not be completely severe but it did hold him out the second half of last week. So that's something to consider and you know in terms of starting them and fantasy. That's the obviously consult Tom and Joe's rankings, but I'm not from a medical perspective 100% confident in him this week. Okay, no fair enough one boy. I guess I could talk about chart to you want yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean, let's face it shark is is certainly as performing like a top 10 top 15 receiver so far so, you know some certainly someone to monitor if he's popping up on the injury report. Yeah, so he has a quad issue and the thing about quad issues is that they can be relatively minor sort of like what what to I Hilton had earlier this week or this year. He tried to play through it. They ended up pulling him in the middle of the game. So, you know, I don't know if Westbrook's is that or I mean if charge Is that severe but at the same time the Jaguars are also doing their best Patriots impression and they don't have Thursday or Friday up on their official injury report. So I don't really know what he's been doing. I expect him to play and I don't expect him to necessarily be limited. But again, you know, maybe check those practice reports or just maybe send me a direct message on Twitter at something or you know, tweet it been until because until we have that Thursday and Friday practice report. It's difficult to make an accurate. Inaccurate Outlook the fair enough that makes sense Alvin Kamara. We were just talking off the air. Yeah. He's missed the last two games. But you're you're feeling pretty confident about him. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think that anything to severe is coming up at this point, you know, by the time they play next week. It will have been three weeks. I think that he was was that he heard that ankle and practice it problem and he tried to play through that at one point a couple weeks ago. And so I think He's going to be fine by the time the by rolls around they're going to make that playoff push. Yeah. Well meanwhile me they have the by this week. So he's got a whole extra week. Yeah. Yeah, so he should be back next week and I'll firing on all cylinders from a health perspective good very good to know few other guys, but I'm not sure if you had if you want to weigh in on any of these guys who had also just notable players who popped up on practice reports DeAndre Hopkins Josh Jacobs Keenan Allen. I mean, I feel like Ellen is on there a lot. But nothing really comes of it Odell Beckham dealing with a groin Tyrone Williams with a foot Jarvis Landry with the shoulder and Phillip. Lindsay is with a wrist all of these guys got in a full practice and they're all going to play. I was just wondering if yeah, I was wondering if you looked into any of any of them. Yeah from the injury perspective. So, I know that Keenan Allen he was he was that on the final injury report. I saw a report that he was On the final injured. No, I don't think so. I'll be outside. I'm looking at I'm looking at this and like the two words. I hate seeing his hamstring and groin. Yeah, you know like those are the two that worry me sometimes shoulder injuries wrist, you know Phillip Lindsay deal with a wrist in yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's whatever but hamstring and groin forgot. If our guys like those I feel like can just they can just be nagging just enough, you know, you know pull it to pull up lame on a play. They're both going to play. But yeah, Alan did appear in the final practice for port and I don't think I don't think Odell Beckham did either I'm just um double check. I don't want to give any mister. I got no worries. I know I did good didn't it didn't pop up? Yeah Friday. We don't know his practice report status on Friday for Friday just yet. I will say as a general rule. Hang on what a player has going on. Like if they have for example, you know you here James Conner he has an ace specifically it's an AC issue. And so you're like, oh that's like an instability because you listened to the fantasy free agents podcast Monday through Saturday because we're of course you did a podcast and you know, what a shoulder separation is and you worried because you're like, oh that's an instability issue. That's a contact injury if they if they get hit again, they could get hurt again. But if you hear like Josh Jacobs random elbow random just general shoulder for a running back. That's you know, I would say eight or nine times out of ten. That's not going to affect their Play It's just just a matter sort of just a matter of the position that they play and stuff like that. But yeah, I don't expect anything to negative from any of those players, you know Hopkins is going to play through so luckily, you know, you love to see it. You'll I love to say that I love to say that I'm not worried about any of those dudes because I'm not yeah great. Well, About does it anything else to add as we approach week 9:00 Sunday action from a injury perspective. Nope. I'm just ready for my favorite part of the part of the yeah. I'm going to try it. So here's how it goes. I start to say, well, you know that does it for the week nine injury report podcast and then Edwin energex and says go ahead every time every time I'm excited for it. Okay. Hmm. So given as we were just passing by the spooky season, and we know Know that Ben could canis you're a fan of the spooky season right? Love spoon. You would love to yeah. Okay. So here here is here is what I want you to list for me. I want you to list the top three been kookiness is top three Halloween candies, but but but I also want you to list your top three overrated Halloween candies and then we got one more question and then we'll wrap it up promise. All right. It's a good question. So top three outs are rhesus has to be at the top and anyone who doesn't love Reese's at the top our I don't I don't want to know you. Yeah Reese's at hold on. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I'm gonna stop you there. No peanut butter. No jelly. That's right. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry I interrupted. Yeah, no joke. No joke to me. Duncan me jelly on a peanut butter sandwiches. Just put a bunch of Reese's on that sandwich. Um, okay now so Reese's number one. I'll go with the sweet tooth and number two nerds. Like I'll just I'll just get those little those little boxes of nerds and just like down them completely. I don't know what it's sweet tooth is the switches was just when you're craving something sweet Oh Oh, I thought you were naming a candy. No. No, I'm naming what I have every Halloween. Oh, there you go. There you go. Reese's nerds and then Snickers as number three overrated or your least favorite. So Three Musketeers terrible. Yeah Milky Way overrated and Jolly Ranchers overrated nice. I'll take that I'll take all those I like this power rankings last question. What is Bank where we're going to let you brag about yourself? You're a little bit because you made me do it on the first podcast of the year. What is your proudest accomplishment? Feel free to share as much as little or as much a good we're getting kind of serious here. Yeah and can't wear the Grinders are still listening there. So they're been kookiness, um, totally off the not related at all to fantasy football fantasy sports being either as an equal to Omega. Yeah, so totally off that I It's say I was a finishing my Master's Degree with a 60 to 70 page dissertation on Bram Stoker's Dracula that took eight months to do nice. I would say that's a pretty badass accomplishment. Oh, I would say yeah, I submitted that and I was like, I don't want to see this again. Actually. I looked at it because I teach Dracula every semester in my horror literature class. Yeah, I dug up I dug up my my paper. Because I was like, oh there's a few things I could include in here. Just you know slap on a PowerPoint. I was reading it as like this is garbage. Like, how did how did I ever now? I mean this was so I got my Master's back in 2013. So yeah, I don't know it's one of those things. I guess just feeling self-conscious or very critical of myself as a writer, but I was just like wow, this is a terrible paper. This is like 60 to 70 pages of dreck. It's probably like 10 times better than anything. Anything I could write so you're well, you're gonna matter for your physical therapist. I mean, that would be like me seeing a patient and you know bang on their knee and be like this feel. Okay? Okay, that sounds good. We should trade jobs for a second. Your students probably would not appreciate that very much for the record. My students in honor of Mischief Night on Wednesday night. I walked out of the classroom on a break as teach a 3 it's a three-hour night class. So take a nice little 15-minute break in the middle walked out to go use the restroom and in honor of Mischief Night. I Come back and they tp'ed my computer. Oh, nice good for that Island. Yeah all in good fun. Give him a slight Round of Applause. But there you go getting to know Ben canis one week at a time. We're getting to that social security number. Yeah, we're getting there were getting there. Yeah. All right. Now I can officially say that'll about do it for the week nine injury report here on the fantasy free agents podcast. I am been kookiness follow me on Twitter @ B KU K AI n is he is Edwin poorest our in-house physical therapist. You can follow him on Twitter @ FF student doc. Good luck everyone in your week nine matchups, and we will be back on Monday with Joe and Tom's. week 9
After a week hiatus flying out to Detroit, Ben Kukainis (@bKukainis) is back with Edwin Porras (@FFStudentDoc) for the Week 9 Injury Report Podcast! The guys provide some status updates and initial reactions on AJ Green, David Johnson and George Kittle (4:20), followed by a look at a handful of players expected to return in Week 9 (18:10). The guys then dive into players looking at multi-week absences (35:55) before closing it out with Week 9 Questionables (54:12). As a bonus, Ben lists his Halloween candy Power Rankings and tries not to boast when Edwin asks him about his most prized accomplishment. A special congratulations to our own Joe Dolan for finishing #1 in Draft Accuracy for the 2018 season among 140+ sites and experts! This was Joe’s second #1 overall and third top-3 finish in the last 5 years, making his rankings THE most accurate preseason fantasy football draft rankings on average since 2015. Check out the complete list at fantasypros.com/nfl/accuracy/multi-year-draft.php. 