Interim HC Smith On Injury Updates vs Bills | LA Chargers

do you have any details on what specifically Keenan is dealing with on the heel yeah it's kind of been the injury of the year uh I'm not a very good medical guy obviously uh with a commercial recck degree but uh the uh it's a it's just been a weird injury this year we saw it with a low he you know and Dean Leonard still going through it uh he's just he's busting his butt and uh we're just working are you are you guys hopeful that Keenan will play again this season or is there any thoughts of shutting him down for the rest of the year no there's no thoughts to shutting down uh we just he's working so hard and we're going to support that and we'll just see it day by day and just how much was Joey able to do today obviously you were able to open the activation window for him yeah he he he had a good day and uh he's progressing nicely and uh he's hungry to get back out he's hungry to get back out but uh is uh trending in the right way he could play before the end of the year too yeah I think that's his mindset uh the body of tell him as we move forward given how crazy last week been how much are you looking forward to Saturday night playing a game yeah well I think that's why we're all in it you know they got a scoreboard out there and uh so we're going to compete to win and uh it's been an awesome week the staff's been incredible incredible the organization's been unbelievable and uh I just happen to be the guy standing at the podium what do you think you're going to be feeling em you know I we're all in this cuz we're competitive people uh so uh I think it'll be the same competitive spirit it's just a different role that I'm tasked with and uh but as far as uh the game day feelings it's going to be the same you get to go out there and compete that's why we all do it how awesome is that you know that's what everybody every man strives to compete you know so be fun as far as like game management decisions you know fourth Downs timeouts two-point conversions all that kind of stuff are you keeping the structures in place that Brandon had have you made any changes to like how you're going to go about making those types of decisions you know that's uh obviously I'm not going to tell you if we're going to go for it on fourth down you know wouldn't let Buffalo know that uh but uh those are discussions we've had as a uh with the coordinators and uh moving forward and we'll have a good plan going into it so you have not to give anything away I'm saying like on a broad level you have sort of touched those things put your fingerprints on those things like the different processes as far as making those those game management decisions of course

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