Should We Be Worried About Stroud vs Bills?

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Seth and Sean talk about how worried they are if CJ Stroud is still in concussion protocol when the short week leading up to the Bills on Thursday night starts.

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00:00So, injury news with the Texans.

00:01C.J. Stroud still out as of yesterday.

00:04Boy, we've talked about this a couple times, Seth.

00:07For those who don't know the rules, and we won't dig heavy into the protocol rules,

00:11but one of the big ones is you have to be back practicing for two practices symptom-free

00:16in order to get back on the field.

00:19This is one of those things with the short week next week,

00:22that if C.J. even got back just to practice on Friday, right, just to do a walkthrough on Friday,

00:26would at least shorten the runway of the number of practices.

00:30You know what I mean?

00:31I'm a little nervous that if he's still not out there on Friday this week

00:35and he doesn't play on Sunday, is there enough runway to get him through the protocol by Thursday next week?

00:40And do you even want him, if in that week leading up to the real practices,

00:48guys are still recovering from the Sunday game, and then all of a sudden it's Thursday and here you go.

00:54I mean, at times, different teams handle it differently.

00:57Some teams will have a practice, like an actual, their normal Friday practice they'll do on Wednesday morning

01:04or have some kind of a modified walkthrough on Thursday morning.

01:07So everybody does it differently.

01:09And teams will, it's one of those Thursday night games are so weird that I don't think,

01:14I think a lot of teams don't even have a standard protocol.

01:16They wait until that week, get a feel for how injured and banged up guys are,

01:21what it looks like, and you kind of just tweak it on the fly.

01:24So there's not really any way of knowing exactly how the Texans are going to handle it.

01:27Especially the later you get in the season.

01:29I mean, the Texans had an empty injury list like four weeks ago.

01:32They had literally, they had nobody, I forget if it was the Ravens game

01:36or the game coming out of the bye week against the Seahawks,

01:39but in that region, in that area of the schedule, they had an empty injury sheet,

01:43basically except for a couple guys that were coming back from the injured reserve list

01:47that were in their practice window, and now you look at their injury report

01:51and it's, I mean, it's pretty jam-paying.

01:54They got six DNPs yesterday.

01:56They got four limited guys.

01:58Now they, you know, Titus is back at full participation and a couple of other guys.

02:02But it's, you know, this is a time of year it starts to pile up a little bit

02:06and the short week matters for sure.

02:07I'm glad that none of my concussions were ever diagnosed

02:10because I try to put myself through the mental exercise of coming back from a concussion.

02:14It's probably, I don't know, like, because guys are well-educated now

02:18about how important it is to be fully recovered and everything,

02:22but you probably kind of will.

02:23Like, every time you get kind of jostled in the head,

02:27you're wondering and monitoring yourself to see, all right, am I all right?

02:30Am I thinking straight?

02:31Do you, what was the, what, I'm about to ask you a question.

02:35Yeah.

02:35Do you remember the time that you probably don't remember anything?

02:38But, like, do you, what was the, what was the worst, like, head dinger that you got there?

02:44I mean, I guess, like, all the time.

02:47We just got them all the time.

02:49So I don't know if that was the worst.

02:50I didn't know there was one where you had to, like, be taken off the field.

02:53As far as, no, if I had gotten taken off the field,

02:55I would have gotten diagnosed with a concussion.

02:57I think the biggest thing that I remember was the multiple times

03:00where I would be sitting in meetings and I just couldn't,

03:03I couldn't read what was on the overhead projector.

03:05Oh, yeah, there you go.

03:06I remember talking to Kylie once.

03:07I'd be like, is that overhead projector?

03:09Kylie Wong.

03:10I was like, is that, Kylie, what's wrong with the overhead projector?

03:12Is that, is that out of focus?

03:14And he was like, no, what are you talking about?

03:16And then the multiple times that, you know, my, my wife would come home

03:20and the car was, like, left running in the driveway and she'd, she'd come in

03:26or in the morning after I'd, I'd leave before she woke up

03:28and then she'd get up in the morning and the cereal would be in the refrigerator

03:32and the milk would be in the cupboard.

03:34Okay, that, that's.

03:35Yeah, and like the door is left wide open on my way out and everything.

03:39Yeah.

03:39It's a bad job by me.

03:40That would have been a better question.

03:41Like, okay, we know you got your head banged up a bunch.

03:43What were the byproducts of that?

03:45Like, what were the weirdest things that happened as a result?

03:47There were a lot of, and then there's just a lot of times

03:49when you think back on some of the mental errors you'd make

03:51where you can't figure out exactly why you made a mental error.

03:54Like, oh yeah, I had, that was, I was probably concussed.

03:58Do you think Coughlin is retroactively sorry that he probably got mad at you

04:02for some mental errors?

04:03Just screamed at people who were actually sorry.

04:07That's why I ask.

04:08He's probably P.O.ed about the whole diagnosis of concussion thing.

04:11He's the one that hates the protocol.

04:14Rub some dirt on their brains and throw them back out there.

04:17Yeah, man, that's it.

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