Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? Sean Merriman A one hand effect.
Speaker 1: Boom boom, boom, out go the light. This is Lights
Speaker 1: Out with Sean Merriman. What's up? Guys, were back again
Speaker 1: with Sean Maimon on the Lights Out podcast, and today
Speaker 1: we're talking about, uh, Tyrock Taylor's injury. What my former
Speaker 1: team doctor David Child my time down there with the
Speaker 1: San Diego charges, and um, you know, he's our team doc,
Speaker 1: so he knows a lot about these injuries, A guy
Speaker 1: who I spent a lot of time with and uh,
Speaker 1: you know some just some of the cases he's seen.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been uh shot up before games. I've
Speaker 1: had to have knees and ankles and shoulders and things
Speaker 1: drained in order to make it into the game. So
Speaker 1: um one the guy always say, guys, it's the players
Speaker 1: who make the decision. No team doctor, No one's gonna
Speaker 1: come in and just started automatically shoot you up a
Speaker 1: quarter zone light of kin, whatever it may be, pain pills, paint,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. No one's gonna walk in and shoot
Speaker 1: you up without the players saying Okay, this is what
Speaker 1: I want. So I see the things that's being said
Speaker 1: with Tyrod Taylor and um, his long being punctured, and
Speaker 1: those things happen. It's unfortunate. Uh, those things happen. But
Speaker 1: I've heard much more worse than that. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk to David Child again and get this thing going.
Speaker 1: You know, I always always say that it's the it's
Speaker 1: the players decision on what they want to do. Right. Um,
Speaker 1: you've always presented an option. You're always told if there
Speaker 1: could be any repercussions or further damage or you always
Speaker 1: can you always are told to side effects when it's
Speaker 1: when it comes to making decision to get a shot
Speaker 1: before the game or night before the game. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I recall some of the times, even the night before
Speaker 1: games with us of of you and and James coming
Speaker 1: up and sitting in the hotel room and we're talking
Speaker 1: whether it's about my knee, if I had something that
Speaker 1: was swollen, if it needs to be drained and you know,
Speaker 1: shot up there, you know, anything to decrease some of
Speaker 1: the inflammation. And you guys will sit right there in
Speaker 1: my room and we'll talk before anything has even happened.
Speaker 1: So when I when I see certain things and we're
Speaker 1: talking about Tyrod Taylor in UM, you know his ribs
Speaker 1: and and and the decision to be shot up, and
Speaker 1: then what happened from that, so that the news that
Speaker 1: came out, even though you said that Monday, Um, it's
Speaker 1: all first and all one as when they get that out,
Speaker 1: it's always the player's decision on what they want to do. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean lights. Since we're bringing up some of your stuff.
Speaker 1: You had a major knee injury, and this is my
Speaker 1: recollection of the story. I might be off by a
Speaker 1: day or a week. You had that bad injury and
Speaker 1: I said to you when it happened, I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna need surgery. I don't think you're gonna make it.
Speaker 1: And knowing how tough you are, I remember coming to
Speaker 1: practice one day because we got you embrace in the meantime,
Speaker 1: and I always come at the end and I see
Speaker 1: you running out around out there, I'm like James Collinson
Speaker 1: head athletically, I'm like, what's that? He goes, that's lights.
Speaker 1: And so you finished off that season and at the
Speaker 1: end of that season, I said you needed major surgery,
Speaker 1: and you said, I'm going to the Pro Bowl, and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay. And then I happened to be
Speaker 1: the doctor of the Pro Bowl. You came back for
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. I said, you need surgery. And you said,
Speaker 1: but I just played it in the Pro Bowl. And
Speaker 1: I said, Sean, I drained your knee for you to
Speaker 1: play in the Pro Bowl. You're twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: You need the surgery. And you know we went down
Speaker 1: that path. And so you chose to have or not
Speaker 1: have surgery, right, And and we talk about things for example, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and and so, and I remember that, and I remember
Speaker 1: that conversation. And I also remember me trying to go
Speaker 1: around the country. I've seen three three different doctors because
Speaker 1: I wanted to play. I wanted to play. I knew
Speaker 1: my I knew what stage my my knee was in,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know the timing of it. Right. So
Speaker 1: I'm twenty four years old, and you know that it's
Speaker 1: gonna be at least eight or nine month deal, right,
Speaker 1: you know it's going to be that. So you don't
Speaker 1: want to be told that you can't play. You you
Speaker 1: can't do a certain things. Were talking around on the combines,
Speaker 1: and you want to see another doctor, and and I
Speaker 1: want to see two different doctors. I went, I went down,
Speaker 1: you saw a bunch and I remember having a conversation
Speaker 1: with you in in late February March. I said, well,
Speaker 1: well we could, and you said, okay, I'll do the surgery.
Speaker 1: But I'm playing week one and I'm saying I don't
Speaker 1: have that surgery because it's a bigger surgery than you said. Well,
Speaker 1: then I'm not doing it. And that's why you tried
Speaker 1: to play and then, believe or not when you were
Speaker 1: going around getting all the second opinions and obviously the
Speaker 1: team wasn't giving you their contracts, so you were not
Speaker 1: thrilled with them. Uh. I was getting shipped and the
Speaker 1: local I think you can say ship on the podcast,
Speaker 1: but I was getting grief from local San Diego media
Speaker 1: saying I somehow screwed you up because I should have
Speaker 1: told you you needed surgery. And I'm like, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't say anything, but I was like, I'm who told
Speaker 1: me you needed the surgery way back. And then the team,
Speaker 1: as you remember, said well, what's up with Shaun? Can
Speaker 1: you find out? I mean, well, the whole world thinks
Speaker 1: that you're mad at me, and the reality is we're
Speaker 1: tight with everything. And I'm the one texting you saying
Speaker 1: what's going on? And I remember you were flying back
Speaker 1: from New York and going to Minnesota, and I gave
Speaker 1: you the name of another doctor in Minnesota to send
Speaker 1: me up to go see. I mean, but that's what
Speaker 1: people don't know, the real truth behind the scenes, right, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: for sure. And you know, I don't take it back
Speaker 1: to even when, uh, when I had to plant a fasciitis.
Speaker 1: It was a time that uh their tone and we
Speaker 1: had the foot injuries, but I had to plan a
Speaker 1: fasciitis and I remember the it was four or six
Speaker 1: inch needle that that had of light of cain. That's
Speaker 1: that's not a fun injection. No, you know, got look,
Speaker 1: I tell anybody I said, the knee was bad, to
Speaker 1: shoulder bad as you know, at risk was bad. But
Speaker 1: on sheer pain, on trying to get ready, it was
Speaker 1: the plan of fasciitis and taking the needle straight into
Speaker 1: the bottom of my foot for I think two or
Speaker 1: three weeks back to back in order to go out
Speaker 1: damn play. And I said that that pain, that pain
Speaker 1: was just as worse as anything because you know, like
Speaker 1: you're not really feeling too much below the ankle, yes,
Speaker 1: and and and that's very painful. But you know, my
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's so many good stories with with
Speaker 1: involving you and good times. My favorite Shawn Merriment story
Speaker 1: since we had permission to tell them, and you don't
Speaker 1: even know what it is. So this at your own risk.
Speaker 1: I still remember in New York versus the Jets, towards
Speaker 1: the end of the game, there is a goal line
Speaker 1: stand and we win. You come off the field and
Speaker 1: show me your wrist, and you had dislocated your risk wrist.
Speaker 1: You're doin it on your wrist, and I'm like, holy sick,
Speaker 1: that happened last play, like no, like three plays ago.
Speaker 1: You never even came out of the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: and you finished the goal line stand because you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we gotta stop him, and you dislocated your wrist. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, if we didn't get that bone
Speaker 1: back in your wrist, it would have been emergency surgery
Speaker 1: in New York. You wouldn't have flown home. We luckily
Speaker 1: got it back, and look at that. You've never missed
Speaker 1: the season that has ended other people's seasons. And you
Speaker 1: were like, let's find a way. I said, okay, We'll
Speaker 1: put in thicker pins with threads. Your pins sticking out
Speaker 1: of your wrist, you had surgery, you played with the cast,
Speaker 1: you didn't miss any time that year. Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: know that's the thing, uh day, because we I always
Speaker 1: look at us as like modern day gladiators, right, and
Speaker 1: certain players you you know who and what you're dealing with,
Speaker 1: Like certain guys can have a bigger pain threshold, certain
Speaker 1: guys can play through anything. In the mindset is different. Um,
Speaker 1: at what point for you do you go and tell
Speaker 1: a guy like no, Like, what what is? Has it
Speaker 1: ever been a time where you where you go to
Speaker 1: a guy like listen, maybe you could maybe not? Maybe not?
Speaker 1: But no, Yeah, I do all the time. And any
Speaker 1: time where there's irreparable harm, you gotta say no. Now
Speaker 1: if it's playing through the pain making it worse but
Speaker 1: it will eventually get better. Those are areas of consent
Speaker 1: any time where there's potential of permanent damage and irreversible damage.
Speaker 1: Like we use the needle a fair amount, no secret,
Speaker 1: But I never numbed up someone's knee joints to play
Speaker 1: because you can end up with further articular car early
Speaker 1: damage in arthritis. Uh So, there's certain things that where
Speaker 1: you can take a risk and certain things that you
Speaker 1: just can't. So there's a lot of times we said no. Look,
Speaker 1: a lot of times players got met and it wasn't
Speaker 1: always just me, but you know, around the legal I
Speaker 1: mean remember Dr Eason whatever he remember there was a
Speaker 1: linebacker and I won't say Who's a fairly intimidating guy
Speaker 1: who said who. Basically Drson was afraid of because he
Speaker 1: told him he couldn't come back into the game and
Speaker 1: he thought he was gonna get punched. And I was like,
Speaker 1: We're good, he's not mad at You're not gonna punch.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you gotta say no. You know, he goes,
Speaker 1: I feel fine, No, you have the concussion. No, that's
Speaker 1: what we're When there's risk of long term damage, you
Speaker 1: have to say no. So so let's take it back
Speaker 1: to like ty roge deal, right, he had to rip
Speaker 1: uh and he wanted to play, and it was something
Speaker 1: that came out about him uh being injected. But his
Speaker 1: longest something like that getting hit. Now, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know the engine now. It is like sometimes like
Speaker 1: I of the world, and I understand that when you
Speaker 1: see a headline it's like, oh my god, he pusture
Speaker 1: is lung we oh my god. You know, people freak
Speaker 1: out by reading two or three sentences because I mean,
Speaker 1: point blank, sometimes people just lazy and they don't want
Speaker 1: to look at everything. So which when in that case
Speaker 1: could and should happen? Or how much do you understand
Speaker 1: like about when when something like that goes down? Well,
Speaker 1: unfortunately I understand a lot of it, which is why. Look, Sean,
Speaker 1: I'm not a source reporter. You know very well. I'm
Speaker 1: on great terms with James who's still there, with Damon Marco,
Speaker 1: all the trainers and guys there. But I don't pick
Speaker 1: up the phone and say, hey, what happened to Tyrod yesterday?
Speaker 1: They wouldn't tell me, right because the hippa, and they
Speaker 1: would actually hang up on me. We were friendly, we
Speaker 1: have a great relationship, but you just don't ask things
Speaker 1: like that, and and and by the way, if they
Speaker 1: would have told me, because I'm a medical professional, because
Speaker 1: of HIPPA, I wouldn't be able to repeat it. So
Speaker 1: I don't ask them. So Monday, when I talked about
Speaker 1: as like, here's the fact pattern Tyrod Taylor was a
Speaker 1: surprise nonstarter. He was on reports, said he was fine
Speaker 1: after during pregame and somewhere between pregame and the start
Speaker 1: of the game, something happened, and I'm like, okay, what
Speaker 1: would have happened. I mean, it's not because he rough
Speaker 1: housed in the locker room and hurt himself. It's not
Speaker 1: like a healthy NFL player gets a heart attack in
Speaker 1: chess pain. And it was announced with chess pain, and
Speaker 1: I knew it was medical because they showed him on
Speaker 1: the side sidelines cut of rubbing his chest and it
Speaker 1: was the medical doctor, not the orthopedic doctor there chess pain.
Speaker 1: He went to the hospital and then I went back
Speaker 1: and looked and saw that he was on the injury
Speaker 1: report for RIB on Friday. So that's where I go, Oh, okay.
Speaker 1: So he went in after pre game. Now he completed
Speaker 1: a pre game, but that's difference between finishing game and
Speaker 1: getting hit in the ribs, which is gonna happen. So
Speaker 1: he gets the shot, so he doesn't feel pain whatever.
Speaker 1: The lung lining is very close to where it is now.
Speaker 1: I had my assistant count and we probably did somewhere
Speaker 1: between fifty and probably about si rib blocks in my
Speaker 1: time in my seventeen years knock on wood. We've never
Speaker 1: hit the long lining, but it is a known risk,
Speaker 1: and so what what fact pattern, what thing? One thing
Speaker 1: would put all this together? To me? I mean, if
Speaker 1: you have a puddle of water on the floor and
Speaker 1: your sink doesn't work, the sink leak and cause the
Speaker 1: puddle of water. It's not like you have a roof
Speaker 1: leak and the sink broke at the same time. You
Speaker 1: want to tie everything together, right, So the fact pattern
Speaker 1: that was there by tying it all the debt together,
Speaker 1: that's how I said, well, this is probably what happened,
Speaker 1: and that's why I talked about it on Monday. And uh,
Speaker 1: this is why I also said yesterday Justin Herbert's the
Speaker 1: week three starter, because what did Anthony Lynn say? Everyone
Speaker 1: took it as he's standing behind Tyrod Taylor. His exact
Speaker 1: words were, if he's a hundred percent, he's my starter.
Speaker 1: And so I wrote an article Yester saying he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be a hundred percent for a week three Even
Speaker 1: if the lung is a d percent, the rib still
Speaker 1: hurts and there's no way you can expect him to
Speaker 1: get another rib injection rib block injection, so he won't
Speaker 1: be a hundred percent. And that's why Justin Herbert is
Speaker 1: a week three starter. Yesterday, actually I just heard That's
Speaker 1: what I was just texting your tweeting that Coach Lynn
Speaker 1: admitted that and said Herbert's the starter today. So just
Speaker 1: deducing information from this silly pro football doc thing that
Speaker 1: we do, no And for me, Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: always always look at it like that. You know the possibilities, abilities,
Speaker 1: you know what could happen, and you're not just recalls
Speaker 1: so many times, maybe not feeling that well during the week,
Speaker 1: possibly been limping around in the boot, depending on which
Speaker 1: injury you gotta ankle. On my case, it was achilles
Speaker 1: at one point where I had to tend the nights
Speaker 1: build up and just I couldn't really do a whole
Speaker 1: lot during the week. But that still doesn't change from
Speaker 1: you being a game time decision. You know, you get
Speaker 1: out there and you're gonna start warming up. And I
Speaker 1: tell anybody I said, you can be. You can go
Speaker 1: in the stadium rolling in on a wheelchair. You get
Speaker 1: in front of those fans and under those lights. Somehow,
Speaker 1: some way, whatever you was feeling during the week is gone.
Speaker 1: And that is why you know, guys go through it
Speaker 1: and are game time decisions. And when I looked at Tyrod,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, he maybe he did feel good
Speaker 1: all week, maybe he did get through the warm ups,
Speaker 1: and maybe he did just need a little bit so
Speaker 1: he's not you know, when he's throwing the ball and
Speaker 1: he's not turning just that much, he's not getting that
Speaker 1: little pinch, that little cringe or it feels like something's
Speaker 1: gonna tear or you can't breathe or whatever. Whatever the
Speaker 1: deal was, he just needed that little bit of age
Speaker 1: to go and play the game. Yeah, but here's the
Speaker 1: other thing. It's natural for you. I mean, you always
Speaker 1: played to everything, and uh, you know the not everyone
Speaker 1: is like that. Though. You have to know your guy
Speaker 1: and know your player, right, I mean, I know what
Speaker 1: your mindset was. I needed to warn you of the risks,
Speaker 1: but I know what you were going to say. But
Speaker 1: I just had to do my due diligence right where
Speaker 1: there's others you have to explain it in more detail
Speaker 1: and call their agents. And that's fine to each his own.
Speaker 1: I've often been asked this question. I was asked it yesterday,
Speaker 1: and this is why it's on the top of my mind.
Speaker 1: And since you're here, I never really thought about it.
Speaker 1: But since it's your podcast, I'll give you this. I
Speaker 1: hope you don't mind being second. Okay, I've been asked
Speaker 1: the question, who's the best player you've ever taken care
Speaker 1: of and who's the worst player you ever taken care
Speaker 1: of in terms of medically right, And my answer that
Speaker 1: question always been it's the same guyft Junior Sales. He
Speaker 1: was the best player ever took care of, and he
Speaker 1: was the worst player ever took care of. Why best
Speaker 1: because he would do anything and played through anything, and
Speaker 1: worst because he would not listen to anything and just
Speaker 1: go um, no offense. It's a compliment your second place
Speaker 1: on that list. I'm good man. Look, you know I
Speaker 1: felt about Joe buck Man. It's just what he's on
Speaker 1: the podcast. And I've never forget looking at his fingers
Speaker 1: and his fingers, uh, and his toes when he's ran
Speaker 1: the flip loss and stuff, and I'm like, he got
Speaker 1: some crazy he has some crazy figures and hands and
Speaker 1: just hearing. And I would when I played personally, I
Speaker 1: would ask you all the time about him, you know,
Speaker 1: when practice habits were like what did he do? Would
Speaker 1: he go see? And all this other stuff because I
Speaker 1: was just, uh, you know, I wanted to be junior
Speaker 1: and I wanted to be better than Junior, because I
Speaker 1: knew that was the bar. If you ever wanted to
Speaker 1: be up any kind of Mountain Rushmore, you wanted to
Speaker 1: be looked at as a great player, you had to
Speaker 1: figure out what the hell that he did. So now
Speaker 1: being on being second on that list, brother, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not complaining one bit. Yeah, just for longevity, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: he played nineteen years. I'm good being on that second list. So, um,
Speaker 1: what do you what do you think that happens here? Um?
Speaker 1: And just walking through the process of people like I
Speaker 1: look on Twitter and everybody's like so so so so,
Speaker 1: so I've seen it ten times, Right, I've seen this
Speaker 1: ten times, And and to me, I just feel like
Speaker 1: we got in such a Sue happy world and people
Speaker 1: don't understand what that means and what do you got
Speaker 1: to go through and and and and what basis you
Speaker 1: have to even think of something like that? And I'm
Speaker 1: looking and like, what what are you thinking about the
Speaker 1: reason why my Twitter, my podcast revelation of Tyrod Taylor
Speaker 1: Monday didn't hit big news is because I didn't I
Speaker 1: downplayed it. I gave it honest I treated it honestly.
Speaker 1: I knew very well if I would have said team
Speaker 1: doctor punctures Tyrod Taylor's lungs. I would have been the
Speaker 1: number one trending story on sports on Monday. But that's
Speaker 1: not unfair to the doctor. I know who the doctor is.
Speaker 1: I won't say his name. I don't want him to
Speaker 1: get grief. It's part of the hazards of what it is.
Speaker 1: It's a known complication. It shouldn't happen. Look, I did
Speaker 1: seventy five or eighty of them, but it's a known complication. Hey, Sean,
Speaker 1: you've probably made a hundred tackles and then missed one.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not a bad doesn't make you a
Speaker 1: bad player. Um Tom Brady in Week one through a
Speaker 1: pick six. His career is not done. He's not a
Speaker 1: bad player. He's the goat. I wasn't trying to impugne
Speaker 1: this one doctor. That's why I sort of explained it factually,
Speaker 1: which probably downplayed it. Now, if he told Tyrod about
Speaker 1: the risks, that's one thing that covers in Also, there
Speaker 1: is no long term damage. Tyrod will be one fine.
Speaker 1: If this week were the super Bowl and Tyrod was
Speaker 1: the guy, he would play. But in a Week three game,
Speaker 1: when there's still a little slight chance of this that
Speaker 1: the other you're gonna see him, which is what's happening.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna sue him. Look, anyone can sue anyone.
Speaker 1: There's nothing he made the day one roster. He's still
Speaker 1: gonna get paid. You know. Will there be a creative
Speaker 1: way to see something like you could sue him? Uh?
Speaker 1: Is it good form? No? I mean, look the doctor,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't have happened. Don't do it. He knows it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he feels bad about it. He didn't do
Speaker 1: it on purpose. He's human, and it's not like he
Speaker 1: did a rib injection and uh punctured his kidney. That's
Speaker 1: end of story. Malpractice, right, And by the way, in
Speaker 1: fairness to them, they reacted and treated him right and
Speaker 1: sent him to the hospital to make sure and Tyrod
Speaker 1: is gonna be fine. So I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: gonna assume or not. I mean, it's it's his right
Speaker 1: to do so, I get. I mean, look at look
Speaker 1: at the punishment this guy is gonna get. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be remembered for this with his team and career. I
Speaker 1: think that's enough punishment for him. I'll bet it never ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: happens again, and and and I feel bad for him,
Speaker 1: but you know, I get the headlines right and and
Speaker 1: I'm not hating on anyway with the headlines, just the
Speaker 1: way that it's spun. I I wasn't trying to do
Speaker 1: that on Monday. And and now I promise you I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to cover for the guy. I know who
Speaker 1: he is, but he's not my friend. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know him. And I'm not trying to cover for
Speaker 1: the professional. I'm just trying to give all sides. It's
Speaker 1: like someone's saying to you, Sean, well, why didn't you
Speaker 1: stay with that tight end? Well, you were, it wasn't
Speaker 1: your coverage responsibility, But you don't say that. You just say,
Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is. I'll make the
Speaker 1: tackle next time, you know. I mean, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, And I said the same thing man.
Speaker 1: And And I don't know what's going through Tyrod Taylor's head.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he personally feels about the situation. Um,
Speaker 1: But like you said, he's gonna be a d He's
Speaker 1: gonna come back from it. He'll be fine. It's not
Speaker 1: something that's gonna jeopardize his career. Um. But you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, if he if he
Speaker 1: wants to go and sue and and and press the
Speaker 1: fact and do all that stuff and he can't, it's
Speaker 1: not a big deal. That mean you got the right
Speaker 1: to do that. I just I just feel that when
Speaker 1: you're talking to I like, call it normal people. Right,
Speaker 1: when you're talking to normal, average, every day people who
Speaker 1: run running in the living room and they bumped their
Speaker 1: shin on a coffee table or a couch and they
Speaker 1: get on the ground and they're rolling around and they're
Speaker 1: crying and screaming. Was like, now, do you know, get
Speaker 1: up and do that seventy five times. And that's what
Speaker 1: it's like to play football. Yeah. And here's what I
Speaker 1: always say. Football is not a contact sport. Anyone who
Speaker 1: says football is a contact sport, they are dead wrong.
Speaker 1: Basketball is a contact sport. Football is a collision sport.
Speaker 1: Big big difference. I remember when I this is how
Speaker 1: old I am, Sean when I was first and I
Speaker 1: worked in the NFL and a little bit as an
Speaker 1: assistant in Chicago and in Minnesota. But I remember my
Speaker 1: first times with the Chargers going Natron means remember him,
Speaker 1: great running back. He would come into the training room
Speaker 1: on Monday and could barely walk, but he was super
Speaker 1: agile on Sunday. I mean literally that sort. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why all you guys wanted tore it all right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I mean for the next day,
Speaker 1: not as much for the game, but for the next day.
Speaker 1: I was he couldn't walk, but the next Sunday he
Speaker 1: do it again. I mean the bruising look. And here's
Speaker 1: what people understand. They think, you're there watching the game
Speaker 1: one time. You know this, you've seen this. We're busy
Speaker 1: before the game and after the game, and on the
Speaker 1: injury report you see two guys that we didn't have
Speaker 1: three doctors on the road to take care of two
Speaker 1: guys in a given day. I mean we're busy, right,
Speaker 1: I mean there are times you'd come in ready for
Speaker 1: what you wanted or needed, and we say, I give
Speaker 1: us a second. We're doing something that you know. It
Speaker 1: is a joke when someone says to me, well, that
Speaker 1: guy was on the injury report, he wasn't hurt. Uh,
Speaker 1: that ain't how it works, my friend. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people. Every team doesn't have four or five, sometimes
Speaker 1: six athletic trainers, and every Monday and money morning and
Speaker 1: minimum of three doctors because we're taking care of two people.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot going on that people don't see. Oh,
Speaker 1: trust me. I remember the knocks on up and down
Speaker 1: the door and they you know, you know, the team
Speaker 1: trainers and team doctors, they go a knockdown, knock on
Speaker 1: the door to everyone who had a problem, you know,
Speaker 1: the night before, if you got a knee, a swaller,
Speaker 1: you know, swollen knee or hamstring, whether you're dropping off
Speaker 1: a tennis machine and somebody's hotel you know, hotel room
Speaker 1: the night before, or you're given guys uh whatever it is,
Speaker 1: you know, toward off something for swelling something for maybe
Speaker 1: it's keeping them from sleeping. I mean, and you you
Speaker 1: will literally walked down the hallway and making sure you
Speaker 1: guys are right. And so that's the things that people
Speaker 1: don't get a chance to see. That. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of guys might pop up on an injury
Speaker 1: report because they're truly injured or might be a game
Speaker 1: time decision. But trust you mean, there's about twenty guys
Speaker 1: that you're knocking on the door and you're dropping off ice,
Speaker 1: you're dropping off ice buckets, tense machines, uh ace bandages
Speaker 1: because guys are you know, are not a hundred percent
Speaker 1: going into the game. Yeah, that's right. And the other thing,
Speaker 1: that other favorite line I always say, Look, I've covered
Speaker 1: I'm not denigrading baseball, basketball, whatever. I've covered those sports too. Well,
Speaker 1: let me tell you what's different about football, and you'll
Speaker 1: back me up on this. I'm sure is a good day.
Speaker 1: I mean, no, that's that's a hundred that I mean
Speaker 1: because that the day that you step on the field
Speaker 1: for training camp. From that, from that one day, that
Speaker 1: first day, you're never one hundred percent until the end
Speaker 1: of the season. You gotta ring a finger, a risk
Speaker 1: or lower back, a shoulder, a neck, a toe, I mean, ankle,
Speaker 1: go you go for it. You're never a hundred percent.
Speaker 1: So if you can get that works, yep, yep, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: All right, Well a cool brother. I appreciate you for
Speaker 1: coming on, Dave man Um, you know, keep up to
Speaker 1: go work with Pro Football Doc and have me on
Speaker 1: some of these times when when these injuries pop up,
Speaker 1: because I had enough of him, I'll have you all.
Speaker 1: I like opening might look. Actually I've been a little
Speaker 1: podcast hiatus because all season was you know joint out
Speaker 1: Kick and they're revamping some things. And don't you worry,
Speaker 1: I'll take you up on it for sure, my friends.
Speaker 1: All right, man, you got it. Thank you, by by
Speaker 1: so again. I appreciate David Child for coming on. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I spent a lot of time as you
Speaker 1: can tell. I spent a lot of time with him
Speaker 1: in my tea, my time with the sand Ego charges
Speaker 1: down there, and um, he knows a lot about it.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been there. I've been there. I know
Speaker 1: those talks and I know how things go, especially when
Speaker 1: it gets from game time. So thanks for tuning in.
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