Jordan Love Suffers MCL Sprain: Packers' Star QB Out 3-6 Weeks

[Music] well let's get started with the big news of the day um and there may be more updated news I'm getting started at around 3:00 this is the latest that I have seen via Ian Rapa Port we can call it good news we can call it bad news depending on how optimistic or pessimistic you were being yesterday Packers quarterback Jordan love who went down with a lower leg injury late in his team's loss to the Eagles in Brazil had tests on his knee today that release uh that revealed and MCL sprain sources said no ACL damage now Ian is the only one that used the word sprain which is a big deal everybody else is just going out saying oh it's an MCL it's an MCL like what do you what like what what's wrong Ian said MCL sprain now there's still gradients to that right nothing tore acl's okay ankle okay not high ankle all this stuff right there's a lot of optimism and that's good I think there's no reason not to be optimistic um until you find out otherwise so I understand it but let's take a look real quick uh I've been lately posting a lot of this stuff I call it jock jock doc GPT because essentially I don't know what all these things mean and so I go over to Ai and ask it what it means so let's go through some of this stuff there's essentially because it is a strain there's a couple things there's three grades grade one two and three there's a mild sprain moderate sprain severe sprain let's start from worst first because why not symptoms complete tear of the MCL now again I I don't think that's it right but it says severe spray whatever let's just go through it causing significant pain swelling and instability recovery time is usually 6 to 8 weeks but it could be longer um I I listen they were in a tough spot they're in another country I don't know exactly what the protocols are and everything else but my thought process and I may be way off on this if we're talking something this severe where there is a um significant pain swelling and instability maybe they don't have a brace to put on them I don't know but a lot of people have pointed out how you know there's video of him walking around the sideline there's video of him walking down the the plane by himself looks to be walking a little gingerly but that's it I just I feel as though the team would be taking further precautions if he had so let let me tell you this for an example um talking to my half Mexican attorney he was kind of going through obviously doing a lot of Deep dive stuff looking into some of this one of the the things that'll happen when you have for example a tear or severe thing whatever is when you don't have that stability anymore right and your leg is is not able to sustain itself first of all I I tore my ACL I reinjured my knee 500,000 times I never went to rehab I never got it uh surgically repaired nothing complete tear I just left it the problem is when you don't have stability your knee just goes po pop similar to what happened to Jordan love my knee did that once a week when I was in college for a long time it would just do that I would drop to the ground my knee would swell up this big I couldn't walk for a week um I I just I feel as though if he is not stable and if he is able to reinjure his knee I'm talking like just walking and all this stuff it's hard to imagine they just be like whatever let them walk on it it's fine you know and maybe maybe he did have a brace on maybe he had something on you just couldn't see it under like the the sweatpants or whatever that he had on it just when I see significant pain swelling and instability that doesn't seem to fit the fact that it's like yeah he's he's hurting but he'll be all right just give him some some freaking Tylenol grade two moderate sprain partial tear of the MCL moderate pain and swelling with some instability generally 3 to 6 weeks now we're kind of getting into the like well maybe right so there's a little bit of pain there's some swelling and you know maybe a little bit of instability but it'll be okay um this is so this is kind of getting into that range where if it's like if it's three weeks that's manageable if it's six okay but that really sucks because I'm assuming this is a lot of losses same with 6 to8 by the way um you know we didn't get things going until about week nine but we still won quite a few games in that period of of things don't look great I don't know if that's going to happen but here's the more positive one here which is a mild strain uh sprain slight stretching or maybe a minor tear of the ligament mild tenderness and discomfort but the knee remains stable now the good thing thing I like about this is and again I don't know if there's concerns about stability I would expect more assistance for Jordan if there's no real concerns about the stability aspect of it and it's mostly a pain management and swelling management thing we're in this mild sprain range it's not really so much a tear as it is a stretching which leads to um pain discomfort swelling Etc but beyond that that's really all we're dealing with here recovery timetable is typically 1 to 3 weeks treatment is rest ice compression elevation rice and possibly wearing a brace physical therapy to restore strength and range of motion return to play with proper rehab Jordan could potentially return to field uh to the field in a few weeks now there have been other examples I saw boss uh I tried to look into this a little bit but we'll we'll do that in in a little bit uh later once we get more details on how serious it is but he had pointed out a couple couple guys that I mean maybe missed a week maybe even less you know it's just a matter of like yeah it it it got stretched it was a strain but like it's just a pain management thing um and if that is the case I'm I'm I'm just saying it it may be like it might be one to three weeks I I'm not speaking as a doctor here but I'm just thinking through this if we are talking about tenderness discomfort um swelling maybe a little bit whatever but it's not necessarily a risk of knee a risk of reinjury it's possible we could see the guy wearing a brace in a couple weeks on his knee and just riding with it yes it hurts yes it's not comfortable no he's probably not going to be taken off and running there may be some issues with planting this that or the other I I I'm the most positive I mean listen I I for all I know he could be playing this upcoming week I don't know last night I thought he was done with ACL te I'm I'm I'm kind of done guessing I'm just trying to go through the information as I see it here uh and leaving all options open it is funny too uh one of the things I was thinking about you know part of the curse of being a Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan I'm sorry to tell you this it comes with a lot of great things you have greatness you have uh you get one Super Bowl lots of playoff wins you're you're worshiped in the state of Wisconsin and among Packer fans one of the downsides though is you're going to have to play through some serious injuries we had the Iron Man himself Brett Favre and although Aaron Rogers wasn't exactly up to the Iron Man standards that dude played through some serious stuff he went down with a serious knee injury came back in the second half stoned out of his mind and beat the Chicago Bears dudes these guys have played with broken bones and strains and all kinds of stuff I'm just saying Jordan you may be expected to you know live up to that that standard I'm just I'm just saying no but no in all seriousness I mean there there is reason to believe that this could be a short-term uh turnaround thing now that still of course means you know we've got an upcoming schedule we've got some games that you kind of were hoping to be able to win that maybe you're not looking at winning and then when Jordan comes back you start to get into the tougher stretch Houston Texans etc etc whatever we don't need to get into Doom and Gloom period now we're just kind of taking it a step at a time um as far as I'm concerned this is good news again it sounds like worst case scenario is 8 weeks it's a half a season if we can squeeze out a couple wins out of this um you know and get the defense right get some of these guys right who's to say we'll see how it goes we got a lot of football to play um like I said before too I I have uh I spent a lot of time counting out the Green Bay Packers the last two years you know you get to halfway through the season they're 95% eliminated from the the playoffs and it's like all right I'm done I'm moving on and boom that's immediately when things kick on and everything's great so I'm done counting out the Packers and moving out of the draft until they're officially eliminated uh then there is long-term considerations there is risk of reinjury even after recovery Jordan will need to be cautious the ligament will be more susceptible to Future injuries especially if he returns to play too soon so that's kind of the concern but again I feel like a brace is you know you're not depending on the ligament to support the knee anymore you're depending on the brace um knee stability the strength and stability of the knee will uh be closely monitored in some cases athletes need to adjust their playing style to reduce strain on the knee ongoing Physical Therapy will be crucial to prevent complications and ensure full recovery strengthening the surrounding muscles particularly the quadriceps and hamstrings will be essential if Jordan follows his rehab plan and doesn't rush back too quickly he should recover fully and return to his previous level of performance the key is to balance the desire to return with the need to heal fully to avoid long-term issues so this is basically brand new information to me so as far as I know I'm going to go look at this and there's going to be a whole bunch of updates but um that's all I've got on Jordan as of this exact second and sure enough just when I end ended that clip there Tom peliso Packers quarterback Jordan Love's initial timetable for return is in the 3 to six week range per sources some early optimism he could return sooner than that pending a second opinion so what is does that mean that's right in that second range it's a mild or not mild mid whatever the mid one was I don't remember um uh partial tear kind of range I guess um not the best not the worst news it's just it's right in there Packers are not eliminated and he pointed out you know the next three opponents so we assume he's out for three weeks according to this second opinion but I don't know if I've ever seen them get a second opinion and it changes drastically they always do a second opinion it never changes next three opponents Colts Titans Vikings you can look at that as positive or you can look at that as a negative on one hand you can look at and say these are the easy games we're supposed to win we would win with Jordan we probably will not win or very certainly iffy with Malik Willis um the positive side though is if Jordan has to be out you want at least a fighting chance to win and these are some teams that give you a Fighting Chance um no we'll see I don't know how good the Colts Titans and Vikings are going to be I have serious reservations about all three teams um we have not seen the Colts quarterback play good football we didn't see him hardly play football but um I he didn't seem great when he was last out there Titans same thing they got a Young quarterback maybe he takes a huge jump maybe this is a revamped team I don't know but reason I believe they're not super great and then the Vikings same thing um presumably not going to be a very good team but who knows maybe the Sam darnold thing is going to be you know he's a moderate player good play caller Great Wide Receiver defense can figure it out I don't know but I think the Packers have a Fighting Chance over the next three weeks beyond that we'll see hopefully he comes back uh soon rather than later we got to see what the Packers decide to do at quarterback um you know we we'll see if this if they put Jordan on IR are they going to go out and try to get another quarterback if they get another quarterback is that going to be a quarterback to replace Malik Willis cuz Malik was meant to be more of a um uh a stop Gap you know he he was more of a developmental guy like you know if he goes out for a quarter if he goes out for a play if it's maybe a game fine but we want him to be a developmental guy we were not planning on him being out here for three four five six weeks um we'll see we'll see lots more to figure out but that's all I know as of right now