{"id":131036,"date":"2025-09-04T01:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131036\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:11:07","slug":"matthew-stafford-on-back-injury-im-playing-like-i-always-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131036\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford on back injury: I’m playing like I always do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Stafford is going to be starting at quarterback against the Texans on Sunday and he said on Wednesday that his back won\u2019t be on his mind when he hits the field. <\/p>\n

Stafford missed the first chunk of training camp with an aggravated disc in his back, but has been practicing without any issues for the last couple of weeks. He said on Wednesday that he won\u2019t be altering anything about his game due to concerns about further injury. <\/p>\n

\u201cOh, I\u2019m going to go play the game<\/a>,\u201d Stafford said, via Sarah Barshop of ESPN.com. \u201cWhatever happens, happens. I\u2019m playing like I always play. I got no issues with a physical game. Obviously, would love to stay as clean as possible, but I\u2019m not thinking twice about that at all. I\u2019m out there ready to go play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Rams are hopeful that left tackle Alaric Jackson will be able to play after dealing with blood clots and strong work from the offensive line would go a long way toward making sure that the physicality of Sunday\u2019s game doesn\u2019t result in any kind of relapse that will hamper Stafford in the weeks and months to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford is going to be starting at quarterback against the Texans on Sunday and he said on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-131036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}