why do you need to do the Heinie's? If the Wolverine blood
just kind of takes over and naturally heals you, you don't
need to do all that stuff that
I haven't written about this yet. But
There is something off here
as it relates to the effort to make sure everybody knows all
about the injury. Yeah
right right. Because then if you stink,
that's your excuse,
he's a row. He tried to play through the injury. If you
play. Well you're a hero because you're like Willis
Reed, you overcame the injury and
the Bill Parcells
attitude toward this, which I'm sure your dad knows very well
as you just don't talk about this stuff at all
because you Don't want to do anything. And this was
articulated last year by Scott Pioli his son-in-law and
the former GM of the Chiefs and worked with the Patriots.
If you and this is the Parcells mindset. If you talk about it
at all, you're separating yourself from the team, you
putting yourself above the team
and you're either saying here's my excuse
for not playing well
or here's why you should worship me even more because
I overcame that injury, it's just not Not something that should
be such a focal point and sometimes it organically
becomes a focal point where but the player and his
Representatives should never be part
of making it a focal point. I guarantee you
the fact that Russell Wilson
has a partial tear of the hamstring
was not leaked to reporters last weekend
by the Broncos
that came from Russell Wilson's, Camp, 100%. I mean,
it just seems like that and the lad injury there, it's all part
of the the damage control. That's, you know,
And and changing the perception or trying to,
you know, fight what's being set up there by the Russell
Wilson camp and to your point? Yeah, you know,
people just, they don't want to hear it, let alone that if it
happens organically, it happens. Organically. That's
right. But the way it's happened, certainly going to
have people in the locker room
wondering what, where you are like oh damn, he's releasing
that to make excuses and whatever else and you know to
your point to with like the Parcells thing or whatever
else. It's just like,
there's guys in that Locker. Locker room, who played middle,
linebacker and defensive tackle. Who trust me? They
don't feel like a spring chicken. They don't feel good
right now. They're beat up there playing with a shoulder,
that's like half hanging on or
you know, and hamstrung that's also got a slight tear in it or
something and they're not getting, you know, the excuse
factor for them. So that's where it just it's Again part
of the bylaws of you know, the NFL locker room don't make
excuses. Can you play
then? Shut up and play
and you were good enough to be out there and we don't
Here about. Oh, you had a little ding here and a little
ding there, and whatever else. And that's, you know, again
where Russell Wilson can rub people, the wrong, the wrong
way. And he's got to be careful about that. That, it's
always this public, you know, what do I want to say? Public,
you know,
fight of changing the the, the, the the word out there on him
or whatever the perception on him. Sorry couldn't find
the word isn't there's an earnestness to him. He's trying
too hard. Yeah, just yesterday. Day, all smiles. Nobody with
the Broncos should be all smiles right now.
I don't go. We're playing a game in London, who cares your
two and five, who cares, where you're playing the game, who
cares that you're ambassadors for the shield right now,
your two and five,
there's nothing to be happy about. There's nothing to be
smiling about your two and five, and you're staring at two
and six against the Jaguars, who knows? I mean the Jaguars
at one point where two and one and they were up 14 points over
the Philadelphia Eagles and this is not going to be an easy
game
for the Broncos and really but for the OneDrive that they The
Cobble together at the end of the week, 3, Sunday night game
against the 49ers. They'd be one in six right now. Yeah,
I know. And again, that's that's they got issues on that
side of the ball.
They do Russell Wilson's got to start playing better
period, he's definitely the biggest issue with the team
right now. And you know, his play is added to everybody
being scrutinized even more and then,
you know, let alone. Yeah, it's had some people pile on them
and all that, but I don't think he's helping himself. Out,
I think he's even helping himself out right there with what he
said there. You know, again, it seems gratuitous, it's, you
know, hey, the rest of my team was zonked out, but I'm sitting
there, I was
working, I'm doing thing, I'm doing high knees and then
the aisle
right and all that, it's just like it's kind of breaking
the man code, where guys are just like man
I'm guaranteed people, the locker room be like
man, I wish he won't
shut up. Yeah, and go play football, throw a touchdown for us
and then tell us about your Heinie's in the aisle of the plane,
you know? Is a point here where you gotta play if you want to
be that good. Yeah but that guy I mean you gotta play good if
you want to be that guy you know and and when you're not
playing good nobody wants to hear that kind of crap and
that's that's where he's got to be careful a little bit. It
kind of reminds me when he's telling them about the guy who
says hey I got a funny story for you. Well when is a funny
story ever followed that. Hey I got one about me. It's
something I did.
I'm going to I'm going to tell you something, I did so you'll
be impressed by me that had that vibe to it. It. Yeah he
didn't have to wedge all that in there.
There wasn't
an interrogation of so Russell what did you do for the first
hour on the plane? Yeah. Hey what did you do for the second
hour on the plane? Will tell us what you did now. Or
number three. He just launched into that talking about himself
and you're right guys in the locker room.
Hey cool, I'm inside of a cool. My aunt Wendy's texting me
right now. She's watching the show. She's going like really
Russell. That's what she's saying.
Like it's it again. I think it's everybody going like, come on.
Just shut up and play.
I hear stop with the
always, the public, you know,
trying to transform the conversation around, you
rule of thumb. If you've lost an 20,
you're in trouble, law and you've lost. That's right,
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