Chip Kelly’s press conferences aren’t known for their abundance of insight. He’s brief. He’s snippy. He usually denies knowing anything about any player who is injured ever. But with reports coming that Sam Bradford will be ready to start against the Patriots, Chip had to address Bradford’s shoulder injury in shocking detail:

“He’s alive.”

It may sound like a joke – and it is – but that’s actually more detail than denying someone “has” an injury because semantically maybe they “had” an injury. And while Chip wouldn’t say Bradford is ready to start, he did say more:

“He’s good. He threw yesterday. Did a nice job. Again, I think it’s the residual part of it; is he any more sore? We’ve got another big day of throwing today so we’ll see where he is and then kind of figure out what goes on Friday and Saturday. It’s not anything that we’re like, ‘Wow, that didn’t go well.’

He did a nice job, but again, we need to continue to see him progress and where that is in terms of him being able to sustain that, because that will give you a really good indication of him being able to go into a game and play against – obviously, we are not live in practice, so we are not hitting him and tackling him to the ground. He did a nice job in the last two days but today is another big test for him.”

So he’s alive, he did good, but we don’t really know how good because we’re not hitting him and we’re not going to hit him so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯? That’s the Chip we know.