Dr. David Chao Talks Week 3 NFL Injuries and Predictions

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00:00Always a pleasure to hook up with Dr. Chivago on a pain-free Friday on Coast to Coast, Dr.

00:08David Chow from Sports Injury Central in San Diego, the best in the business.

00:12You can follow him at ProFootballDoc on X.

00:16He's my boy.

00:17Doc, let's start with the Jets.

00:20They've traded for Morgan Moses to help shore up their offensive line.

00:24He got rolled up on last night.

00:27Will New York be missing him, or is he going to be okay because they've got the longer

00:31time off here after playing on a Thursday?

00:34Well, that's always the benefit of playing on Thursday.

00:37Everyone talks about the downside of playing on Thursday, but what about after?

00:42If you ask players, a lot of them don't mind the tradeoff of playing quickly on Thursday

00:48and then the off time, longer off time after, especially earlier in the season when you're

00:54healthier.

00:55Maybe late in the season it gets harder.

00:56As far as Morgan Moses is concerned, by video last night, it was a left-knee MCL sprain.

01:03Not surgery, not severe.

01:05Doubt IR, but could easily miss a couple of weeks.

01:10That could be an issue.

01:11At Sixth Score, we loved the Jets yesterday, and obviously they rolled them there.

01:17Sorry for the backdrop, busy morning, OR shot today in the background.

01:23So, yeah, listen, I'm surprised you haven't operated on me in there, to be honest with

01:29you, with all the problems I've had playing basketball.

01:31Let's talk about Jordan Love.

01:33You had a great, speaking of that Sixth Score, you have a 46 on him.

01:38But down in Brazil, he got injured, they said six to eight weeks, but now two weeks later

01:45the guy's practicing in pads.

01:48You guys have him at a 46.

01:50Does he play?

01:52I don't think so.

01:53Now, look, I've been very optimistic on Jordan Love, and I think on Sports Grid and the morning

01:59line and the whole deal, I've said I never thought Jordan Love was season-ending, and

02:04I thought he had a good chance of avoiding IR, and I always had at Sports Injury Central

02:09week four versus the Vikings as the target for Jordan Love.

02:14This makes Jordan Love very likely for week four.

02:17I think he's iffy.

02:18But the Packers, he's their guy.

02:21He would wear a brace, but they don't want re-injury.

02:25Their medical staff is known to be very conservative, which is not a bad thing, especially with

02:29your star guy this early in the season.

02:32I still think he doesn't play this week, but it's starting to look pretty good for next

02:37week.

02:38So, Doc, some days you are in the OR when you're going to go on with me, and then the

02:45question is, how many times do you operate before and then operate after you come on

02:52for all coast-to-coast?

02:53Like, it looks like your girl's back there prepping for you to go clean up another ACL

02:58tear.

02:59Well, we did two ACLs this morning, a shoulder, two other knee surgeries, five this morning,

03:07and actually this afternoon, I'm running to the office, going to meet with the Sports

03:11Injury Central guys in the war room to update all the Friday injury reports.

03:16You know, we may creep Jordan Love up a little bit from 46, but I don't think he's playing.

03:22And no, there are no patients in the background.

03:24You can see they're turning off lights.

03:25They're getting ready to go home.

03:27I see that.

03:28Abby, you look better now after she turned the light off.

03:30I mean, you really, I mean, you're looking a lot like Brad Pitt over there now with the

03:33light off behind you.

03:35You look fantastic.

03:36I won't make the joke about looking better with the lights off, okay?

03:39I'm not going to make that joke.

03:41And then you know he's going to end up at Del Mar later, your boy, Dr. Chivago.

03:45The Rams and Niners are both having major injuries in their receiving cores coming into

03:50the matchup.

03:51Who's healthier?

03:52No one.

03:53I mean, they got line issues, D-bag issues, safety issues.

03:57What don't they have?

03:58Both teams have nothing but problems.

04:01This is the, quote, injury bowl.

04:03We faded the 49ers in week two against Minnesota.

04:07Hell, we should have said take the money line.

04:09But no, we said just take the points with the Vikings at home based on 49er injuries.

04:14And it hasn't gotten better.

04:15It's gotten worse with, obviously, Devo, Samuel, et cetera.

04:19But the Rams have the worst end of it with Puka, Nakua, and Cooper Cup.

04:23Cooper Cup can hopefully avoid IR.

04:26He'll be back before Puka.

04:27The O-line is a mess.

04:29The DBs are a mess for the Rams.

04:31The only savior for the Rams is they actually get Aleric Jackson back, their left tackle

04:37off of suspension.

04:39But he had, in the preseason, he had a high ankle sprain.

04:43And then at running back, they've still got some historical issues, although Kyron Williams

04:49is going to play.

04:50CMC is obviously not playing at this point in time.

04:54So issues on both sides of the ball for both teams.

04:57But the Rams have it worse than the 49ers.

05:00It's the injury bowl in week three.

05:03How's Justin Jefferson and Amon St. Brown?

05:07Look, I just got out of the OR, but my staff tells me they're not even on the injury report.

05:13We've been saying since in-game last week on Sunday that we're not worried about Justin

05:18Jefferson.

05:19I think he's going to be fine.

05:20Amon Ross St. Brown.

05:21Yes, Justin Jefferson will play this week.

05:24And I guarantee you, he will be faster than the back judge in this game.

05:29I believe that.

05:30AJ Brown still out for the Eagles?

05:32Yes, AJ Brown was a Friday hamstring.

05:36He's still out for the Eagles.

05:39Maybe another week for AJ Brown.

05:41What about Kenneth Walker?

05:43Well, we said it's hard to recover from an oblique this quickly.

05:47I think Kenneth Walker is out this week.

05:49I haven't seen the latest practice injury report.

05:52Next week is the first chance for a realistic opportunity.

05:56It's mixing out.

05:58I believe so.

06:00Look, I'll give your Sportsfear listeners a hint here.

06:03If Mixon plays and it's a normal number, hammer the under on the props here, okay?

06:10He returned to the game, but it was a high ankle sprain.

06:13I don't believe he plays, but if he does, hammer the under.

06:17The Texans, who were very healthy and we were very high on, but they lost the center, which

06:22is tough because they went all through last year without starting the same offensive line.

06:27Now, down Mixon, Damian Pearce with a hamstring, they're on Cam Akers right now as they face

06:32Minnesota and Aaron Jones.

06:34Respectfully, I got 30 seconds.

06:36How's the Zunay?

06:37Who's that?

06:38I didn't hear you.

06:39Cut out for a second.

06:40I was talking about the Bears, the Zunay, the receiver.

06:44I know Allen's already out.

06:46Oh, yeah.

06:47Keenan Allen, Odunze Romeo, he played with the Roman through the MCL.

06:53He'll be a week healthier.

06:55I think he will be a go, but Keenan not.

06:58But the Bears, you know, the Bears are on the healthier side of things there.

07:04All right, there you go, Dr. Chebago.

07:09All the injury news, all the skinny, go to SIC, six scores, everything else, you get

07:14it at Sports Injury Central.

07:15We'll see you again next week.

07:16Have a great weekend, guys.

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