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Good morning, Craig.

Good morning. How are you doing?

Well, I'm not going to sugarcoat it.

The Roman Anthony News yesterday was like a kick in the nuts.

Yeah, that is, that was a tough one.

You know, we have seen what Roman adds to our team in a really short amount of time.

He's emerged as one of the best players in this league.

But I think time and time again, the team has proven to be resilient in overcoming adversity,

and this is going to be another challenge that we're going to have to figure out how to overcome.

You never know with injuries, obviously, but do you lean more toward the four weeks or the six

weeks? I think, you know, I think it makes sense to be optimistic. Certainly Roman and our medical

staff are committed to doing everything that they can to get him back on the field. So, you know,

we're going to hold out hope that he's going to be able to get back on the field and help us.

Craig, when it comes to an oblique, it's not something that you can just fix with surgery. So how

how hard is it to balance, not rushing him back, but getting him back in a certain amount of time

to help you guys while also not bringing him back too early where an oblique can get re-aggravated so quickly.

Yeah, that's the balance that we've got to figure out.

You know, we're all aware of what the timeline is in terms of the regular season

and, you know, our ambitions for playing deep into the postseason.

So we'll do everything we can to get him back out.

But we have to do that responsibly, you know,

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