Russell Wilson's Calf Injury Update and Game Impact

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00:00Of course, we had the news yesterday, Scotty, that Russell Wilson's calf is giving him some

00:08problems again.

00:10Wilson did say today, Scotty, that he does want to play on Sunday.

00:14Imaging showed them, quote, good news.

00:17But Justin Fields did do all of the throwing at the media portion of practice today.

00:23The injury report just came out.

00:26He is officially listed as questionable for Sunday.

00:30He was limited at practice today.

00:33Here is Mike Tomlin from yesterday, Scotty.

00:36He doesn't seem very concerned if Wilson doesn't play at all.

00:40Mike, what are the, any long-term concerns about Russell's calf?

00:44None.

00:45When did he report the tightness?

00:47He was a limited participant.

00:49Mike, same calf as training calf?

00:52Yes.

00:53How much does that impact game planning for Sunday?

00:55It really doesn't at all, to be honest with you.

00:57Does he have to go get it looked at or examined by anybody?

01:00We probably will, just to exercise an abundance of precaution.

01:03Mike, what's your opinion of Justin's readiness and do you think you might have to go to him?

01:09I'm extremely comfortable if that is the case, certainly.

01:12There you go.

01:14This is all such nonsense.

01:16If the guy's calf is bad, play Fields.

01:19If Fields wins, so be it.

01:22And then Fields is the quarterback.

01:24If he loses, which he will, he'll eventually lose because he always does.

01:30He throws a lot of picks and he makes a lot of stupid mistakes.

01:33That's why the Bears got rid of him.

01:35People keep acting like the Steelers found this gigantic bar of gold, like Bob Melendez

01:42over here.

01:44Gold bar, Bob.

01:45They got this gold bar in Justin Fields.

01:49Justin Fields throws more interceptions than I do throwing Nerf balls to the kids in the

01:54neighborhood.

01:55I mean, honestly, so eventually he'll screw it up.

01:59But why am I going to play some guy with a bad calf?

02:02He's already old and washed, let alone like here, let's roll him out with a bad calf and

02:07see how he does running around in Atlanta on Sunday.

02:10If they want problems, real problems by losing him, then play him because then he'll tear

02:16it and he'll be out a month.

02:20Steelers are getting three and a half in Atlanta.

02:22Forty two and a half is the total for this game.

02:25I like the under Scotty.

02:27I like the under 42 and a half.

02:30Yeah, I'm fair with that.

02:32And you know, we don't know what we're going to see with Pits.

02:38We don't know what we're going to see with Cousins.

02:40Is he going to, you know, he's already been like, I'm looking forward to getting hit so

02:45that I could, you know, get through it.

02:47He hasn't played since tearing his Achilles.

02:49We don't know what we're going to see.

02:51I've already seen Wilson and Fields and they, they both suck.

02:55I mean, let's face facts.

02:57You watched them, right?

02:58Like they played and they were both terrible.

03:02I mean, they couldn't complete a pass in preseason games.

03:06It's embarrassing.

03:07I don't want anything to do with this game.

03:09I told you before I look flat out.

03:13I think the Steelers defense is better than Atlanta's team as a whole, just the defense

03:19in itself.

03:20So I'm writing a running game.

03:23I'm writing defense and I got to be honest with you.

03:27I think London and Pits are really good, but I think Pickens is just as good.

03:31I don't know if the Steelers can get the ball to Pickens, you know, maybe just throw screen

03:35passes to him and see what he does because throwing downfield for the Steelers is going

03:39to be a circus this year.

03:41That's just all there is to it.

03:43Neither one of those guys do anything but have problems.

03:46I mean, honestly, like the same thing I said about Fields, like we have to acknowledge

03:51that Wilson is going down the other side of the mountain.

03:55This guy's not the guy you think he is from Seattle.

03:58He's not.

04:00He's already writing children's books.

04:02He's not like a great quarterback anymore.

04:05Those days are over.

04:07Finished a long way from those Seattle Super Bowl teams.

04:12The Steelers did give Pat Friermuth four years, 48 million in extension for the tight end,

04:18who we all love there in Pittsburgh.

04:20So nice job.

04:21I like him.

04:22I like the other guy that's 6'8 and, you know, 300 pounds.

04:25I'm a big believer, as you know, in throw it up and see who can get up the highest to

04:30catch it.

04:31And if you got a guy that big, he's jumping, he's 10 foot 5 when he's jumping and he can

04:38run you over.

04:39He's 300 pounds.

04:40I mean, he is a load to bring down.

04:44So they got two tight ends, the Steelers.

04:46The Steelers are a better team than the Falcons.

04:49Watch the Falcons a win by 14.

04:52Nice price for Friermuth this week to score too.

04:54It was like in the 320, 340 area.

04:56Didn't quite make my card that we're going to have, but I might still play him on Sunday.

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