Episode 211: Emergency Podcast -- Michael Thomas to Miss Early Part of the Season
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Saints star WR Michael Thomas is expected to miss the start of the 2021 season after undergoing surgery to repair the ligaments in his ankle in June. Based on the timing of the surgery – and recommended 4 months of recovery – Thomas could be on the sideline for weeks. Adam Levitan and Justin Herzig discuss the fallout from this news.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
- Possible return date for Thomas
- Injury's affect on quarterbacks
- Injury's affect on rest of Saints playmakers
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 211 of the official establishment.com podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | My name is Adam Levittin and today I am joined by the one and only best ball king, Justin |
| 0:28.7 | Herzeg for sadly, unfortunately, another emergency podcast. I was second emergency podcast |
| 0:35.2 | of the week. This one in the wake of Michael Thomas's foot surgery. News broke this morning |
| 0:40.4 | that Michael Thomas did have surgery in June on his troublesome ankle and is expected |
| 0:45.6 | to miss roughly four months. Shout out to me. I have zero M.T. so far. Justin not so lucky |
| 0:53.5 | based on his portfolio reveal on the site looks like he has around 12% Justin. How's it going, |
| 1:00.0 | buddy? It's going okay. Yeah, not the best of circumstances for us to come together, but |
| 1:06.0 | you know, I think what it's July 23rd now and we know going to August, like this is still probably |
| 1:12.4 | a little early than we expected, these kind of kind of season breaking news items to come out, |
| 1:17.3 | but we've got to be ready because especially come August, these are going to come in and maybe |
| 1:20.8 | not to the degree of a torn Achilles. We've only seen stuff, but like with the camera makers, |
| 1:25.5 | Michael Thomas, like, hey, we're going to be ready and so let's talk and let's see how we can |
| 1:29.2 | kind of adapt. All right, this episode is going to be short and focused strictly on the fallout |
| 1:35.0 | from Michael Thomas's injury. Before we get to his teammates and the effect there, let's start |
| 1:40.0 | with Michael Thomas himself right now. We are projecting him to return around week seven |
| 1:45.5 | following the Saints by. Michael Thomas was previously around three pick. Now he's going to miss, |
| 1:52.4 | I don't know, somewhere at least 48 weeks of the regular season. We don't know how healthy he'll be |
| 1:57.3 | when he returns. His quarterback could be Taisam Hill. When he returns, Justin, how are you thinking |
| 2:03.2 | about where to draft Michael Thomas? Now let's start, I guess, with Bestball and then we'll move to |
| 2:08.1 | manage because I think it's a little bit of a different conversation, but let's start with Bestball, |
| 2:11.3 | how are you thinking about where to draft Michael Thomas now? Yeah, so for starters, |
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