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00:00We're going to hop out to the River Islands guest line and bring in our very good friend,
00:04Dr. Nirav Pandya. Doc, the Niner season is done. There's still plenty of injuries to talk about.
00:10We'll have more injury news with the Warriors and be checking in with you and Doc Feeley
00:14throughout the season, but glad to have you here today and want to get to a lot. Can you,
00:20can you first off weigh in on a debate that we were having earlier about Dre Greenlaw?
00:27This was year one. He missed most of it. He came back. He kept getting hurt. What do you see as the
00:34long-term viability of Dre Greenlaw looking like his former self? Yeah, so I was listening to you
00:41guys. You both are right. And I think there's some nuances on both sides. I think number one,
00:46if you look at the vast majority of NFL players coming off Achilles, a lot of them don't return.
00:51So the fact that Dre Greenlaw returned to the NFL and played at a game already puts him in
00:55a different tier of people coming back from an Achilles. The second thing is that his age is
01:00definitely working in his favor as opposed to being 35 or 40 like Aaron Rodgers. He is younger.
01:05So that works in his favor as well too. But if you look at the subset of players who come back
01:09from an Achilles successfully, linebackers are the one that have the biggest impact in terms of
01:14their performance. The key question, which we don't know is what does Dre Greenlaw look like
01:19next year? Yes, he's going to play better, but how much better will he get and what is his feeling?
01:23And that's the great unknown that we don't know with him. He's young. He's played well that game
01:28back. So I think that's really going to be the determination of whether the 49ers want to
01:31potentially bring him back or what's going on with social media with all those posts with him.
01:35So I really do think that, yes, he has the potential to be back. Things are working in
01:39his favor. But the data is something that he has to battle against because players at this position
01:43just don't do well historically. Yeah. And the subset you were mentioning about linebackers,
01:47how much of this is, I guess, predicated on the fact that he does have to go forward,
01:52backward, left, right, and make movements in all directions. Yeah, I think that's probably
01:57the biggest factor that makes it difficult for this position to do well and also probably gives
02:01teams pause at this position. If he was a quarterback, even if he's a lineman, a lot more
02:07things are in his favor. But the fact that he's constantly cutting, he's pivoting, he's being
02:10explosive, he's changing directions, and he had these issues with his other calf. He's got this
02:15knee. All these things are things you worry about. Now, in an ideal world, potentially,
02:19you'd have five or six games to show how he's playing. But he had one game he played well,
02:24but also he got injured. So there are a lot of questions where it is a little difficult to
02:28predict what he may do, even though he has some things in his favor. Doc Pandia with us on Willard
02:33and Dibbs. I don't want to ask for wild speculation, but what can you say as far as when we
02:39should expect next season to see Brandon Ayuk? In general, when you look at wide receivers,
02:45you're looking somewhere between 10 to 11 months. Now, he had MCL and potentially some other stuff
02:50as well, too. So I would anticipate 10 to 11 months from when he had his surgery done.
02:55I think the same thing, just like with Greenlaw. If you look at the positions that do the worst
02:59coming off ACLs, it's wide receivers and running backs that have a very difficult time coming back.
03:04So they do come back, but you see players that come back, but potentially then have that first
03:09or second season where it takes a longer time to get that skill set back. So I would say probably
03:13middle of the season, I think that's where it lands. So that gives them some time to kind of
03:17slowly ramp back up. But I think expecting him potentially be right back in August could be a
03:22little difficult, particularly at the position that he plays. Brock Purdy, everyone was scared when he
03:26went out with the elbow injury and you could see the expression on his face. It was kind of deja vu
03:31back to Philadelphia. It turned out to not be a UCL injury. Is this just complete coincidence
03:37and happenstance that it happened in the same elbow where he had surgery? I think there's a
03:42little bit of just kind of bad luck. If you get hit in that area, the other players who can have
03:46kind of like tingling in that nerve. I think the one thing with Purdy is that nerve area is probably
03:50a little bit more sensitive because of the surgery. A lot of times when you do UCL surgeries, you do
03:55move that ulnar nerve around and it gets a little bit more sensitive. So I think part of it was
03:58probably just bad luck. He got potentially impacted in that area, but his nerve is probably a little
04:02bit more sensitive than someone else's nerve. And if we remember back to when he was going to have
04:07a surgery done, there was a little bit of a delay because the nerve was irritated. The surgeon he saw
04:12came out openly and said, hey, we're going to wait a little bit because that nerve is irritated.
04:16So I think that nerve is probably a little bit more sensitive, but I wouldn't worry about it
04:19into the off season. I think it was just bad luck getting it in a place that's a little bit more
04:23sensitive. Doc, I want to ask you about Jonathan Kamango. What do you see with that injury and
04:29what are we looking at? And particularly with the trade deadline coming up, what should Warrior
04:36fans be thinking about that one? Yeah, I think anytime you have a player at the time of injury,
04:42the team's already saying, hey, this is a severe injury. It's a little bit more significant. Even
04:46before you get an MRI of his face and how he looks, you do get a little bit more concerned.
04:49And when you see this three-week reevaluation timeline, it doesn't mean typically that he's
04:54going to be, quote-unquote, playing in three weeks. It could be another three to four weeks
04:57afterwards. So when you get these more moderate to severe sprains, you're looking at six weeks.
05:01And for a player who's explosive and moves around a lot, you don't know how that's potentially going
05:05to impact his performance. So if there was any potential that he was going to be moved at the
05:09trade deadline, it's hard to know how he's going to be playing because teams are going to wait to
05:13see what he's doing on the court. So you worry about how he's going to do. He's young. He's
05:17healthy. It's not a three-month-long injury, but you do get a little bit concerned how this is
05:22going to potentially linger as the rest of the season goes on. Yeah, I had it as a grade two,
05:25Doc, just based on the timeline and what I saw. I'm not trying to overstep the real doctors,
05:31but the radio doctor had it as a grade two. I agree with you, Dan. You're usually 99% to 100%
05:36with your radio doctor. I give you credit for that. Coming up in 10 years, I'll be a real doctor
05:41if I can make it. I'm glad that when you were about to say you're usually 100% right, you
05:46stopped and changed the number, Doc. I noticed that. I noticed it. Hey, Doc, thanks. Great to
05:53hear from you as always. No problem. Take care, guys. All right. There he is. The proceeding was
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