00:00It was just a situation you can tell his right elbow was bothering him for a little while throughout practice.
00:05There was actually a special teams period where they were setting up the field goal, setting up the kick field
00:09goals, which he is a part of that team usually.
00:11And so they were looking for where they knew they were missing one.
00:14They couldn't figure out who it was.
00:15And they finally realized, oh, it's the huge dude.
00:17Where is he?
00:18And so they start calling him.
00:19He's like messing around his elbow brace that he started wearing last year.
00:23And finally, he just took it off and threw it off.
00:26And then went in there and did the field goal drill.
00:27And then next up was the team period, and he was standing over to the side talking to head athletic
00:33trainer Andre Tucker.
00:35And he stood there talking to Dr. Drake for a little while.
00:39They just kind of walked off together.
00:40I was like, oh.
00:42And it was clear there was his elbow.
00:44He was flexing it, you know, trying to figure out if he had the right feeling.
00:48And it was just bothering him.
00:49He couldn't tell exactly what it was.
00:51I don't think anybody, not that I've talked to on the sidelines, saw the injury itself or what might have
00:55happened to him.
00:56But it just seemed like it was bothering him throughout the day.
00:59And finally, he ended up going inside.
01:01Now, Herb, when you watched a lot of these practices from OTAs to minicamp, and now as we approach the
01:09month of September and things are starting to ramp up here,
01:13how concerned are you with the amount of injuries that have started to pile up so close to that 53
01:21-man cutdown day?
01:23Yeah, I'm extremely concerned, Russ.
01:25I mean, football is what it is.
01:26We understand it's a 100% injury rate sport.
01:29Always a matter of when and not if.
01:31But you don't want them to all happen at the same time like it seems to be happening to the
01:35Bears.
01:36I mean, their entire secondary has been banged up at different points with the exception of Jalen Johnson and Dylan
01:41Thainerman.
01:43And offensive line trying to figure out, you know, what's been going on with that tackle.
01:46And injuries have impacted that.
01:47And obviously, Kobe Bryant, there's just so many different things that have happened with his team and injury-wise.
01:53And I just wonder if you're able to sustain that.
01:56They're hopeful.
01:57You start to see some guys come back.
01:59Guys like Elijah Hicks came back today, which should help them in terms of their second teams.
02:04And also, if he's able to go, he can slide back into that safety spot, which has been a revolving
02:09door since Kobe Bryant went down.
02:11It's a huge issue.
02:12You've got to be kind of a just because.
