Russell Wilson's Calf Concerns Flare Up Before Game Day

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00:00I'm seeing that, uh, Russell Wilson's calf tightened up on him again today at, uh, Steelers

00:10practice.

00:11And he was limited, like, is this guy going to be able to go on Sunday in Atlanta?

00:16Because this is the same thing I've told you about a million times.

00:19These calves and these hamstrings, these guys think they can come back, you know, remember

00:26I saw Gibbs.

00:27I'm 90, 98%.

00:28Okay, well, that 2% is the one that'll tear that thing again.

00:32Uh, these guys, Warren, he's like, yeah, I'm good to go.

00:36I, you know, I pulled it a couple of weeks ago.

00:39I'm good.

00:40Let's go.

00:41We'll, we'll play against about it.

00:42I don't trust anyone that they, you know, I'm going to give it a go today with my torn

00:46calf.

00:47I'm telling you these things, they just re up every time.

00:51I've seen it a million times.

00:52I've seen guys come back from hammies and calves and go right back down again.

00:58I mean, the second time they're down, they're down for a month and a half.

01:02Yep.

01:03That was the latest here that just came across the news desk, is that the calf tightness

01:07for him.

01:08Tomlin said he'll be evaluated further tomorrow.

01:12So limited today.

01:14I don't know, Scotty.

01:15I mean, three days, three days before the game, that, that doesn't sound very promising.

01:20Let's face facts.

01:22He stinks.

01:23Anyway, let's, let's get down to business here.

01:25This guy is, is clearly going down the other side of the mountain.

01:29No one wants to talk about that fact.

01:31He has never been the same guy that was in two Super Bowls.

01:36He's never even been close to that.

01:39He's been, uh, and at some level painful, you saw him in Denver going at it with the

01:45coaches.

01:46He's, you know, the, he's got a little prima Donna thing going in my book.

01:50I mean, he does.

01:51He's still this great quarterback, uh, that he was in Seattle and he has never been great

01:59after Seattle.

02:01And that's all there is to it.

02:02There's, I said this before, there's a reason that he's in Pittsburgh and there's a reason

02:06fields is in Pittsburgh.

02:08Both of these guys, nobody wanted them.

02:10Like they got sick and tired of the picks in Chicago.

02:14And uh, I think they got sick and tired of Russell Wilson.

02:17He wanted to throw the ball.

02:19Carol wanted to run the ball.

02:20So they got rid of him.

02:22And then Peyton wanted nothing to do with them.

02:24Right.

02:25Uh, but here's where this now, uh, could become very tricky for Mike Tomlin.

02:28And this is something that I don't think Scottie, he wanted to deal with this early.

02:32Me and you have said for months, Tomlin was going to go the safer route.

02:36You know him.

02:37He wants to take care of the football.

02:38He wanted to do all that.

02:39He wants to run.

02:40He wanted, he was going to start Russell Wilson no matter what was going to happen here.

02:44The only thing that's going to prevent that is something like this.

02:48And here's where it gets sticky for him.

02:50If Wilson can't play Sunday and Justin Fields starts and Justin Fields plays well and the

02:57Steelers win and Wilson's healthy next week, what are you doing?

03:03You got to go back.

03:04I mean, Fields won you in the first game.

03:06Yeah.

03:07You're not going to play Fields.

03:08If he plays well, that's where it becomes a nightmare for Tomlin.

03:10If Fields starts, plays well, and they win.

03:13I think, look, because he wants to play Wilson.

03:18He wants to play Wilson.

03:19He's smart.

03:20He does.

03:21That's all there is to it.

03:22So I guess this is all, you know, moot.

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