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RapoportHe is right now out indefinitely. That means he is out until he's ready.

RapoportSo until he's ready, until he's medically cleared, Tannemake is going to be the starter. As far as the difference between

Rapoportsuperficial and deep vein thrombosis, which is the bad, I mean, this is all bad, but the bad kind is superficial is one that is essentially like close to the skin that sometimes you can see it.

Rapoportand it really hasn't entered the bloodstream in a way that the other bad one does. What you want to do is prevent the decent kind from being the really bad kind, which is why you go on blood thinners and anticoagulants and you treat it right now, which is what the Eagles are doing and why Jalen Hurts is not going to play for the foreseeable future.

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McAfeeguess situations are situational when you talk about this type of stuff, blood and reaction to medicines. Herbstreet said the blood thinners helped him immensely, but blood thinners and NFL players, I don't know what the rules are or what that is. Have you heard of that at all? No, you can't play. You can't play.

McAfeeOkay. So Herbie said that he was immediately put on blood thinners to combat these clots, and he said that his blood testing came back like immediately with how good these blood thinners are. The blood thinners would not necessarily be the answer for Jalen Hurts if we were thinking about him returning to play.

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