You're listening to Irish Illustrated Insider. It's Monday, Mark 7th, Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley

from Irish Illustrated, joined by Pete Samson from the athletic. Norton football spring practice

is 10 days away now, the start of spring practice. We had several Nordenian players in the Indianapolis combine.

We want to talk about that, but the biggest news of the weekend as reported by Irish

illustrated, Jared Patterson tore a pectoral muscle in the weight room during the week.

He will of course will miss spring.

He will have surgery this Friday.

Dr. Brian Radigan, former Norning player and Nornames Orthopedic Surgeon will do the procedure

on Friday.

Guys, I wrote about it. Why don't you guys, why don't you guys jump in and talk about it first?

I mean, it's, I think with these injuries, it's, you know, it's not missing spring practice.

It's the missing two, three months of training.

You know, when we're talking about, well, he should be ready for training camp or he should

be ready for Iowa State.

It's just a lot of ground to make up that you lose.

You know, these guys condition all year round.

So when you're forced to take three months off or take a three-month adapted training program,

that's difficult.

You know, I think when we talked about guys returning, if we had to rank the priority of guys coming back or leaving, Patterson was a unanimous number two behind Isaiah Foskey, but ahead of Kevin Austin. So it's really significant. You know, and it's like the weight room injuries, I think, are particularly tough because it's, you know, we're going to, when you're going out and practicing or playing games in my mind at least, like, it's like, okay, that happens.

You know, weight room injuries, I they're just like, yeah, I mean, four to six weeks is, or four to six months is what it is for a standard human being, a elite athlete can beat that.

But it's not about getting back from it.

It's what, how fast can he be Jared Patterson?

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