Deja owie

Almost August now, and on certain days there is a hint of fall in the air, early in the mornings. Also a hint of weirdness.

Down in Indianapolis, for instance, the Colts have barely begun training camp, and already Kevin Durant has taken them hostage.

This elicits an appropriate "Um, what??" from the four or five of you who still read the Blob ("Four or five! Get him!" you're saying), and also provides more evidence that the Blob's faculties have made another prison break. But stay with me here.

See, Kevin Durant strained his calf in the NBA playoffs. You remember that, right?

Then, after sitting out a bunch of games, and with the Warriors about to be exit-ramped by the Raptors, he returned to the lineup.

Then he tore his Achilles, an injury that could well cost him an entire season.

Now, the Blob isn't saying for sure that what happened to KD is coloring the Colts' thinking process right now. But Andrew Luck has a strained calf. He strained it way back in April, apparently. And yet he's still not practicing, and everyone is saying exactly the same things they said about Luck's shoulder at exactly this time in 2017, and, um, well ...

Well. We know what happened in 2017, right?

And who's to say they all don't have the live stream of KD rupturing his Achilles on a continual loop inside their heads, and also 2017 looping up there somewhere, too?

So even though Luck is telling everyone not to freak out, freaking out is definitely an option here. Because he's also saying the calf is still bugging him. And head coach Frank Reich is admitting there's definitely some pain there, a rather startling admission considering the Colts tend to be very Kremlin-like about these matters.

So. Here we go again, right?

Or, not. Hopefully not.