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NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and IHeart podcast.

It's another episode of NFL Cover Zero coming from Lexington, Kentucky, where we are in different spots because he's Drew Franklin.

I'm Matt Jones and Drew is hobbled.

He has a back injury that has made it to where he can barely move.

And so he called the nursing home and got them to put him in his chair so he could join us.

Drew, are you all right?

First of all, you've had to miss a couple days of radio and just is everything okay?

I'm getting by.

I can tell you it is not fun.

When that back spasm locks in, I haven't felt pain like that in forever.

But I'm playing through it.

It's just been a bad week of injuries across the NFL, me included, but I had to show up

for this show.

Yeah, I mean, people who haven't had back pain, you and I have shared it for a long time.

I mean, not like literally shared it, but we both have it.

It's the worst.

Like, I'm sure there are things that are worse.

But when you get a certain kind of pain in your back, you can't move, especially if it's in your lower back.

Like, whatever you want to do, whether it's, you know, walk, uh, lay down, throw things at Billy. Like, there's nothing you can do. And, and it's the worst. There was a moment last night. I haven't been sleeping at night. I've just been staring at the ceiling. But I just thought, I wish I just had like a broken arm because then it's just one one arm. It's over here to the side. I still got this one. I can walk around, but I, like, physically cannot get up and move from one room to the other. I pretty much had to crawl just to get here. It's, it's taking me down quite a bit. So are you, did you do anything for it? Or are you at the where like literally you can sneeze and then you're not moving for two weeks.

We cannot point to one specific. or are you at the age where like literally you can sneeze and then you're not moving for two weeks?

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