Christian McCaffrey left the San Francisco 49ers' game against the Cleveland Browns with an oblique/rib injury.
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00:00 Christian McCaffrey left this game with the oblique/rib injury,
00:03 and the Niners don't know how serious it is.
00:06 He tried to come back and play through it,
00:07 and immediately left on his right side.
00:09 Maybe it's nothing and he won't miss time,
00:12 but if he does miss time...
00:13 Man, we talked about this all year.
00:17 We said,
00:19 "You're overusing Christian McCaffrey.
00:21 You're wearing him down.
00:22 You're cruising to victories.
00:24 You don't need to give Christian McCaffrey 25 touches a game.
00:27 Do that in the playoffs.
00:29 Back off."
00:30 Because they add up.
00:32 They carry over.
00:34 And you're gonna wear him down.
00:35 And I don't know if today's injury was a product of overuse,
00:39 but how do you know?
00:40 How could you say it wasn't?
00:42 11 carries,
00:44 and on the 11th one...
00:46 Well, before the 11th one.
00:48 But 11 carries and he's now hurt.
00:49 And you saw what this offense looked like without McCaffrey.
00:52 Jordan Mason's good,
00:53 but Kyle Shanahan is a totally different play caller without McCaffrey.
00:56 He loses a lot of confidence.
00:58 And it's like the confidence he seems to show in Brock Purdy,
01:00 is that really confidence in Brock Purdy?
01:02 He seemed to lose his confidence in Brock Purdy today.
01:04 The person he's confident in is Christian McCaffrey.
01:07 He gives Christian the ball.
01:08 He leaves him on the field.
01:09 Tries to take him off.
01:10 Caffrey says, "No."
01:11 He's like, "All right, I'll give you the ball again."
01:12 Can't do that anymore.
01:14 It backfired already and we called it.
01:20 They were calling plays in September and October like it was January.
01:27 And now you got to hold your breath and hope that McCaffrey doesn't miss time.
01:31 Because without him,
01:33 hard to say how good this team is.
01:36 I guess we'll find out.
01:37 Didn't look good in this game.
01:38 Oblique/rib.
01:40 That's a tough one for a running back.
01:44 That's a very painful spot.
01:45 Have you ever broken a rib?
01:47 It hurts to breathe.
01:49 It's excruciating to cough or laugh or eat.
01:53 I can only imagine playing running back and getting hit in that spot multiple times per carry.
01:59 Not for me.
02:00 Then again, I didn't even play freshman football.
02:03 So there's that.
02:04 But Christian McCaffrey, this is a huge thing.
02:08 We talked about this.
02:09 Trent Williams went down in the game, came back.
02:11 That's the one guy who might even be more important to the Niners because his backup ain't so good.
02:16 But he came back.
02:17 Christian McCaffrey did not.
02:18 We'll have to see what's up with him moving forward.
02:20 The Niners play Monday night next week in Minnesota.
02:23 So they have an extra day for him to get healthy.
02:24 But they got to be careful.
02:27 If he's not 100%, maybe don't play him next week.
02:30 Or if you do play him, maybe, maybe, here's an idea.
02:33 Bear with me.
02:34 Rotate in Jordan Mason more.
02:37 Because it's October.
02:39 And this guy's hurt already.
02:41 Which is exactly what you didn't want.
02:43 Andrew says this dropped the Niners to 17 best team, right?
02:48 Yeah.
02:48 Sean McGee says, Grant, any possibility you not being at the game caused him to lose?
02:51 No quality control.
02:53 They should put me on the plane.
02:56 Brother Bob says, I like this you more.
02:58 He stole my ideas.
02:59 So LOL.
03:00 Okay.
03:00 It's an inside joke.
03:00 808 Niners says the D got run over, run all over 160 yards.
03:04 What WTF?
03:05 I'm going to talk about that.
03:06 Brother Bob, like we knew he would injure Lance.
03:08 He injured CMC.
03:09 That's what I was trying to say, man.
03:10 It was so inevitable.
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