Two days after toting his lack of medical credentials and deflecting all questions on Mac Jones’ excessive ankle sprain, Bill Belichick provided some perception into the scenario Friday throughout his morning press convention.
“It’s not a broken bone, it’s not a fracture that you’re dealing with. It’s a different type of injury that, I mean, look … We’re all different. Each injury is a little bit different,” Belichick stated. “So again, I’m not going to sit here and pretend like, you know, I’ve got a magic wand and crystal ball. I don’t know exactly what’s gonna happen. Nobody knows. I don’t know. He doesn’t know. Doctors don’t know.”
After taking all of the first-team reps in observe Wednesday and Thursday, backup Brian Hoyer is predicted to start out Sunday at Green Bay. However, as a supply instructed the Herald’s Karen Guregian, Jones is pushing to play and has responded strongly to remedy this week. A excessive ankle sprain sometimes takes 4 to 6 weeks to heal, although Jones has insisted to teammates he might nonetheless play, in line with the NFL Network.
It’s unclear if or how the workforce might shield Jones on the sphere, the place his mobility could be considerably restricted if he does play. Jones would additionally threat additional injury to the ligaments attaching his left tibia and fibula to his higher ankle, which have already been stretched or torn.
Belichick later stated the choice of whether or not Jones is cleared to play can be as much as him and the workforce’s medical workers.
“He’s no different than any player. I mean, he s. But (I’m) just saying, the process is the same,” Belichick stated. “There’s a medical analysis, you speak to the participant, then as a coach you, at no matter level, get the data that you simply get and you decide if there’s a choice that may be made. If there’s no choice to be made medically, then I’m out of it.
“But if there’s a decision they made, that a player’s at X percent, he can do this, the player feels like he can do this, he’s ready to play, then I’ll make a decision. Do I want this player at X percent or somebody else at, let’s call it, 100 percent? But a lot of times, it never gets to that point. Occasionally, it does. If it does, then that becomes my decision in consultation with the player and usually his position coach or the staff.”
Jones appeared at his first observe Friday, when he threw from a stand-still place to stationary targets whereas backups Brian Hoyer and Bailey Zappe dropped again to throw.
Jones’ degree of participation and recreation standing can be identified when the Patriots launch their official harm report after 4 p.m. Friday.
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