Bosa will 'take some time' to get back to 100%
Mike Florio and Chris Simms discuss Nick Bosa's recovery from a torn ACL and react to the edge rusher's progress as the San Francisco 49ers ramp up for Week 1.
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Nick Bosa back to practice, headed to Australia along with George Kittle.
He had been out for a while.
Remember, he had the torn ACL last year.
He was practicing, then he wasn't.
Extended absence.
Here is Bosa on his recovery from the most recent ACL tear.
It was a long road.
There's a l- there's, some stuff I dealt with, with that, patella tendon, and then, it kinda, I kind of ramped it a little too fast with the football stuff, a coup- a month ago or whatever it was.
At the beginning of camp.
Yeah.
And, and it kinda told me to back off, so I've just been trying to get it as strong and as confident, and myself as confident as I can, to where I can rip the Band-Aid off and go to team, team stuff today.
'Cause once you get into team, there's, there's no reservations, there's no compensation here, taking a little effort.
Like, there's no, governor.
Yeah, so sounds like some tendonitis in the patella is what the issue was.
And look, you get in there, you start digging around, you go through the rehab, you're gonna put stress on certain things.
The, the knee is a very complicated joint.
The knee, to me, is Of all the things you could point to, and I guess setting aside the ability that we can reproduce, the intricacy of the knee joint is a constant reminder to me that we were not randomly created, that someone designed the human body.
Someone somewhere designed this thing with all these different pieces of cartilage and tendon that work together, that allow, that allow us to run, that allow us to walk.
And it's, it's fragile because it's so complicated and shit happens.
And, when you get it fixed surgically, you potentially have other issues in it.
Yeah.
It's, it's, it's tough, and I, I think it's, it's This is one of the toughest positions for the ACL injury.
We've, we've talked before, you know, quarterbacks, yeah, you can get away with it.
Offensive linemen, you can get away with it.
You know, receivers even to a degree, you can get away with it 'cause you know where you're going.
These guys, Nick Bosa, Mi- Micah Parsons, that, that Again, like we've talked about, their body and their game is all about being in the position where I'm bent with a 330-pound guy pushing on me as I'm doing that, and the body bending and contorting in ways, and putting pressure on those legs, especially that outside one as you're bending, puts tremendous pressure on that.
And that's where I think this is one of the toughest positions in all of football to overcome the ACL injury and totally get back because of that, you know, physical stress we're talking about.
We're talking about guys, one, that are able to put enough force into the ground that's not of a normal human being, and then you got the forces of another not normal, normal human being pushing on him as well.
And that's where it's gonna take some time, to, to feel like you're, you're totally Nick Bosa again.
And again, there's a contractual issue that is potentially looming, as the high water mark is now 50 million per year.
He's at 34, and he has to be thinking, "I don't have many more chances to get paid," because he's getting closer to the end than the beginning of his career, especially with all the injuries he's had.
Let's take a break.
