you see that ran. I mean they have something. It's going to
be tough big. We got some big decisions that have not been
made. Right? Right by the Rams is Sean McVeigh going to be
back. His errand on are going to be back. If both of those
guys are gone, that changes everything course, right? For
the Los Angeles. Rams. So
I want to wait and see
how that plays out in Beijing. Yeah,
he'd be back. How is that going to go? You're right.
Mmm, speaking of guys who go by initials MDS from PFT
pointed out yesterday that when you look at
It when Odell Beckham jr. Tore his ACL during the 2020 season.
And when he was cleared to play in 21,
that same timeline
for the same injury, to the same, knee
this year. He misses all of the Season,
he misses all of it.
So
he's starting from square, one all over again,
you know,
you've never had the torn ACL but I've been around guys who
have rehab that injury mean you re have something more serious,
but the ACL rehab is grueling. It's For called
and to think that you
you've done it,
you had the new ACL, you did everything you could to get
back to the point where you could be the player that you
were and now you have to do it all over again.
It's heartbreaking to think what this guy's gonna have to
go through over the next year. No doubt about it. It's
a brutal injuries, especially for a wide receiver. You know, you
taught a. You said it right? It's a grueling process of
getting everything. Strong in that knee.
Then you get to a point where you go ho, wait. I'm pretty
good. I'm a normal functioning human. Look, I can walk and run
but then you get out there and go. Wait, now it's time to run
like an NFL receiver and you go well, damn, I
can't really cut and explode the way I need to as an NFL
receiver. It's cool when I'm hanging out with my friends and
I'm running around a little but
there's a different level of expectation there.
And yeah, that's where it's going to be tough. I mean, you
know, we are in an era where we see people come back from
the ACL 78 months,
you know, around that time period. Hopefully this would be
faster but it is Rare that we see ACL.
Same leg, two years in a row, this day and age. We don't see
that a whole lot. That's a little concerning to me. And
the last thing, Mike, you know, I'll say, I've been waiting to
say this all week. Can we get rid
of mother-effing fieldturf and football? Can we get rid of it?
I want to say it's so bad because it deserves an f word,
really bad, but can we get rid of it?
You know, we talk about all the money and stuff and the end of
the owners don't want to spend money on anything owners. You
will save So much money and won't have to sign extra
players on your roster and you'll make money that way.
I know you have to you know,
maybe take care and cut the lawn every now and then and pay
the bill, therefore the grass. But can we get grass fields and
every Stadium, I've had enough,
you know, like we've talked about before,
you know it the great soccer players over in Europe, won't
even play. It's in their contract. They will not play on
fieldturf. We are ruining people's careers. We worry
about you know,
pliers. 50 and all that none of the players like to play on
field, Turf over grass, none. It's zero point zero, zero
zero, they got to change it. It's ridiculous. And I blame it
on the turf in the NFL
for part of Reason, Odell got hurt.
And
you know this pops up every once in a while and It is
incomprehensible to me, even if you're cheap, you have
an investment. Even if you regrets, what I do get you.
These guys rise robots, right? You don't
care about them as human beings and you become completely
desensitized to it because it's this constant churn. We get 90
guys in the offseason. We tell 37 of them to go away and then
throughout the season, we get rid of this guy. This guy gets
injured. They're no longer humans. They're just they're
just replacement
parts. You still want those parts to work? Yeah, view them
as human beings. You still want them to work right? Want your
investment that you've made in these
in these parts? You want to put them in a position in
an environment in a machine that allows them to not break,
right? That's what's so ridiculous. Crazy. How much
could it cost?
And hey, we saw that Stadium. We saw it. Okay, right. It's
going to be the magnet for a Super Bowl, every four or five
years. Yeah, why didn't they build it with the allegiance
Stadium? Or they don't get they either Stadium. I know slide
in.
A tray of grass from somewhere, have it. Come up from
underground. Have it dropped from the ceiling, right? He'll
everything else they have there. They kind of figured out
some way to get grass in there, and write the grass out and put
something else in if they wanted to.
They could, they could do it all. If I don't do it. I know
it's frustrating. I did really bothers me as an ex-player. It
bothered me when I was playing in the NFL 10 years ago or now.
It's 11 or 12 years ago. Holy crap,
but it bothered me, you know. Yeah, I know and it bothered
pliers, then it It
I can tell you that even if we had a day
whether I was working for New England or playing for Denver
the Titans. If we had a day where, hey, we're going to go
on the field Turf today in practice, there or go indoors.
The players hated it.
I mean, especially the linemen, they hated it.
Oh man, really. I'm going to go in there.
It feels different. What about it? Tell it, tell us. It tells
us what the difference is. Just less given the ground when you
make Cuts, you know, of course, grass again, really?
But well, good grass like your cleats. Go into it. You make
tough Cuts, but you feel a little give, you know, again,
you're wearing the same cleat, but now you're in a field Turf
and yes, there's those black rubber Pebbles and everything,
but you can at times you have the cuts can be very jarring.
There is no give that cleat gets in there and it's stuck in
there. And also there's that issue let alone because of
the rubber Pebbles and everything.
There's a lot of
and I don't know if I'm saying this right. Mike.
But there's re shock. Right? Like the
Rubber sends, you know, forces back into your feet, your
ankles, your calf muscles, your quads to wear your legs feel
more tired. I'm playing on that surface as compared to
grass. Like I remember the first few times I was on it.
I was cramping in my calf muscles and my shin, you know,
like in the second quarter of a game and I was like, man, what
the hell is going on with me? I've never had this, but it
was, it was that. So, those are the issues there. It's just too
jarring, especially for wide receivers, and running backs
who got a plant that foot in the ground.
Hard and make really sharp explosive cuts.
And we saw that that
step by Odell Beckham jr. That really didn't look all that
ages right? Blow out the ACL right? It's just like he's he
steps the foot got stuck. There's no give. And then
the only give left was
the knee. So the knee Gib and that's where it stinks. You
knows a little bit of a bad throw.
So he's planted that left foot in the ground to kind of
readjust his body. But as he did that there was no, give, it
doesn't move. And this is to me just where I wish it would.
Change,
you know, to your point. And again, we're talking about
the NFL who doesn't want to get extra referees, know Sky,
judge. No full-time referees, not have people to check
the gauge of the are, you know, again, these are things that
are things that. So they're worried about
saving money there,
but they don't worry about.
Wait. I have a guy on my team who's making two million
dollars a game and if he gets hurt, I still got to pay him as
two million dollars a game and yet, now, I'm gonna have to
sign somebody else to pay that person money to
and that to me is where expenses get up there.
The NFL teams and owners. I mean, I know that
you know, when yeah, lot of injuries. We got to sign extra
players. Now, we have to pay them along the pliers. We
already have on the roster and that's where I don't get it.
And I'm sure cutting the lawn and painting. The grass
would be a lot less money than having to sign all these extra
players and pay people not to play because they're hurt from
field turf.
And you're not gonna have your best players, exact goddess of
the money that you got to spend on someone else. If you're not
getting value from the guys already paid your best players
aren't available to play because they're injured
because you're too damn cheap. And I'd love to know why of all
the other bells and whistles, they have it. So if I stayed
and why they didn't come up with a way to have real grass
on that field with everything else. That was a priority.
I think Ronnie.
I know, I don't get it either. What was it that on the radar
screen? Because them off or one of these other masterminds that
put this In together, this football Palace,
was it unsightly to have a big tray of grass outside,
you know, the who cares? The rest of the days of the week
you slide it in for the football games. It's in there.
It's not taking up any space. It's not it's not an eyesore
when somebody drives by so fast and say boy, but look a lot
better if there wasn't a
football field outside, right all field outside. It's just
stupid. There's there's no reason, there's no reason
I agree with you even in a dome stadium. We know of at least
To and maybe there's more. But I know of at least two
the one in Phoenix in the one in Las Vegas where this
the tray comes out, it all goes out and they can take care of it in
the open air. They can water. It doesn't Houston, March
Houston is
Houston's is
is that another one? Its grass even though it's indoors? Now
that I know the roof open so they could do it that way. But
I want to say Houston also has that same thing where they can
roll it in and roll it back out.
There's something there. But to your point, we have the
To do it regardless
so that there's no excuse and yeah, I don't know why they
didn't do it. They opted not to probably why
because, you know, they could get eight more sweets on field
level right there and get an extra eight million dollars
from everybody in the world.
That's why probably. And, you know, it has something to do
with that way. We can have the role in field or we can have
eight more sweets and make more money. Ah, screw the players in
the field. Let's get the more sweets. I mean, that probably
is what it came down to.
The other thing too that I want to mention before we move on
those little rubber, pellets are toxic
crap, and there have been studies as to whether and to
what extent they cause cancer and soccer players goalies who
get him kicked into their mouth. You have an open wound
that hasn't kicked into him.
They are old tires that have been ground up and hey, at
least they found a use for something old tire. That's
great, right place, right, but but yeah, if it's going to make
people sick over the Long Haul and they never really even seem
to think about it before they
said, well, we need some
Cushion for this
new fake grass. We've come up with. What should we do? Hey,
let's ground up a bunch of tires. Hey, great idea. We got
a bunch of old tires, you know
in a pile out here. Let's do it.
Yeah, and it may be causing problems at