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00:00and people are divided on Christian McCaffrey.
00:08Joe, calf and now an Achilles, limited in practice.
00:11What are we expecting for Monday night?
00:13I thought for sure you were gonna make
00:14a Christian McCaffrey joke.
00:17Like I thought that was like locked and loaded.
00:21Well, look, sometimes it's the obvious one
00:23is the right one.
00:24Let's, you know, not pretend like it's right.
00:25It's the whole thing.
00:27I didn't realize we still had pretense.
00:30Here's the thing with McCaffrey.
00:32It was calf, calf, calf.
00:33Now it's Achilles.
00:35Now I get it.
00:37Part of the leg, everything's connected, blah, blah, blah.
00:39But that would have been good information, I think,
00:41for all of us to have if the Achilles
00:43was also bothering him.
00:45We've seen a lot of Achilles injuries the last few years.
00:47So of course you're starting Christian McCaffrey.
00:49I mean, that goes without saying.
00:51Is he gonna be on a little bit more of a pitch count?
00:52Maybe.
00:53Now Elijah Mitchell's not gonna be a guy to help with that.
00:55Jordan Mason would be the other guy, too.
00:57So that would be frustrating.
00:58You get a lot of McCaffrey work,
00:59and then maybe get to the goal line to give him a break,
01:01and then all of a sudden it's Jordan Mason.
01:03We'll talk more about him later in the program.
01:06But you're starting him.
01:09You're holding your breath, I think, most of this season
01:11when it comes to Christian McCaffrey.
01:12But it's 417 touches total last year
01:15between the regular season and the postseason.
01:19There's a lot of touches.
01:20Historically speaking, the next year does not go well
01:22for guys who cross that 400 threshold.
01:24It's not that they can't be good.
01:26It's just typically they aren't great,
01:28no matter how great they were the year before.
01:31And I know Christian McCaffrey's special.
01:32I'm not trying to take shots at Christian McCaffrey.
01:34He has been unbelievable in his career.
01:37Yeah, there were a couple years where he was hurt
01:38and you missed some time, and that's fine.
01:41We don't have to live in that past either,
01:42but it's still a huge workload.
01:44It's still a beginning of the season
01:46where he's picked up a leg injury.
01:48So it's just something to understand
01:49that maybe you want a little bit more insurance.
01:51Maybe if you have McCaffrey this year, it's not the,
01:53well, it's McCaffrey, he's my hero RB,
01:55and I'm just gonna go whatever,
01:57running back the rest of the time.
01:58You need to have a roster
02:00that's got some running back depth,
02:01just in case McCaffrey isn't right in certain weeks.
02:04If he plays 17 games this year, I'd be surprised.
02:08So just be prepared.
02:10But look, he's full steam ahead, full go for week one.
02:14You're playing him, you're hoping for the best.
02:17But the Achilles, that was a little bit of information
02:19that, again, would have been helpful to me yesterday.
02:23Or before any draft.