The New England Patriots announced on Sunday that defensive tackle Christian Barmore was diagnosed with blood clots over the weekend and was treated by doctors at Mass General Brigham.
And on Monday, Jerod Mayo spoke with reporters regarding the scary situation.
Here's everything he said about Barmore:
Opening Statement
JEROD MAYO: "We're out here in pads today, but before we get to that, I just want to thank the medical professionals in-house and also Mass General as far as the care for [Christian] Barmore. Obviously, it's an unfortunate thing, but for me, it's not even about football. When you talk about things like that, it's about the man. He's getting tremendous care, and I'm anticipating him coming back."
Q: Do you have any timetable [on Christian Barmore] whatsoever?
JEROD MAYO: No timetable. I think all these situations are different, and I'm not a specialist in that world, so I don't want to put a diagnosis or a timetable to come back. When he's ready to go, we'll be here waiting for him.
Q: From a procedural perspective, what do you anticipate doing with him [Christian Barmore] right now? Is he an IR guy?
JEROD MAYO: Well, this is one of those things where you just don't know a timetable. That's more of a question probably for Eliot [Wolf] and our head trainer. I should have brought him out here with me.
Q: How did his [Christian Barmore] symptoms first manifest? What were the first steps of his care as much as he could share?
JEROD MAYO: We have these case managers who are responsible for a group of guys, and they did a great job under Jim's [Whalen] leadership. Chris Dolan noticed something, and they investigated it. Kudos to those guys.
Q: Did that happen last week? We saw him [Christian Barmore] out here a little bit limited.
JEROD MAYO: I'm not exactly sure when it happened. The whole timetable of how it happened, I'm really not sure.
Q: Have you talked to him [Christian Barmore] at all?
JEROD MAYO: I have. I had a conversation with him. He's in good spirits, and like I said before, he's getting tremendous care. His mom is up here too, so anytime mom's in the house, it's a good day.
Q: Is he [Christian Barmore] actually in the hospital currently?
JEROD MAYO: No, he's not in the hospital right now.
Q: Do you [indiscernible] for a 25-year-old kid? He [Christian Barmore] just wants to play football, right?
JEROD MAYO: Yeah, he just wants to play football, but in understanding the seriousness of this, he needs to get healthy, and we’ll be praying for him.
Q: Did you or Christian [Barmore] talk to David Andrews about this before?
JEROD MAYO: I remember when that whole thing happened. The same training staff, for the most part, that dealt with that are still here. I have full confidence in those guys to help him out. I'm sure at some point in time, you've got to remember this just happened, not too long ago. He's still trying to digest what's going on right now as well, and as well as his treatment plan.
Q: Did you talk to the team about it today?
JEROD MAYO: We did talk to the team. We talked to the team about it. A lot of those guys were concerned, but we wanted to wait until all the tests and things were run before we had that conversation.
Q: Christian’s [Barmore] agent credited Jim Whalen, and he said it could have been a lot worse without him. Could you maybe offer more details on the difference that he made?
JEROD MAYO: Yeah, Jim Whalen, he's a huge piece of the puzzle. I would also say he has a tremendous team behind him that do the day-to-day things as well, so kudos to that whole entire staff.
Q: That position, Armon Watts, Daniel Ekuale, who are you looking to possibly do some of those things?
JEROD MAYO: Yeah, that's a great question. We'll see. Today's the first day of pads, and it's easy to say this guy can do it, that guy can do it, but a guy like Barmore, as disruptive as he is, it's kind of hard to get that same production. But look, other guys have to step up and treat it like a normal injury, even though it's not a normal injury, and next man up.
Q: You mentioned how you might try to fill in that position behind him [Christian Barmore]. How does maybe not having a player like that impact the rest of the defense?
JEROD MAYO: It's no secret, last year he was one of our best players defensively. In saying that, we have a lot of guys. I don't think just one person can embody all of the different things that Barmore did for us. But we do have guys that are hungry. We do have guys that can penetrate the offensive line. I'm not too concerned about that. It’s the next man up.
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