00:00Football is back tonight. Patriots going to take on the Commanders in their first preseason game.
00:04I'm going to get to in my leads. There's a lot of injuries in the league already
00:07when it comes to a big injury in practice yesterday for the Chargers.
00:10Did you see the one in the Ravens game last night?
00:13Yes. Horrendous.
00:15Nature of the beast, though. That's the thing about football. You never know.
00:18Do you think that there is a potential, Wiggs, that the way in which the NFL conducts many camps,
00:25training camps now, the union gets all these benefits of no two-a-days, no padded practices.
00:32Do you think that leads to more injuries when they play because they're not, or do you not buy into that?
00:37No, because if the Baltimore one, it's just like the kid lands wrong.
00:41Right, right.
00:42And if you saw Slater from the Chargers, he just plants and it's just that's...
00:49His is worse.
00:50Who's that?
00:51Chargers, Slater.
00:52I believe... I mean, he's out for at least a year.
00:57Yeah, he has a torn patellar.
00:58Yeah, that's bad.
00:59Is that worse than the guy's leg going in the other direction?
01:01I believe that that's like the worst you could get. Correct, Shyam?
01:04I don't know.
01:05I don't know. I mean, his leg was going 90 degrees.
01:08No, yeah, but...
01:09Yeah, so I mean, you know, they either way...
01:11I'm not a doctor.
01:12Yeah, either way, they're both...
01:13Me neither.
01:13Either way, they're both going to be out for a significant amount of time.
01:17But, Curtis, to answer your question, I just think that there are certain injuries that are just, you know...
01:24It's just unlucky the way, you know...
01:26Totally.
01:27That guy probably landed like that a thousand times.
01:30And then, you know, or Slater planted, you know, put the anchor down a thousand times.
01:34I think that it's more of, if you see, like, soft tissue injuries, like hamstrings, groins, sometimes those tend to play into, are you getting overworked?
01:46So maybe...
01:47But that would be, like, more back then when we had, like, real two-a-days, the body doesn't have time to recover.
01:52What was it like when you first started?
01:55Like, when you were at the first Bryan College camp with the Patriots, it was, how long was it for two-a-days?
02:00And was it, like, did every day, was it padded?
02:02Oh, yeah, you got to remember, Mike, my first training camp was Parcells in 99.
02:08So we were in Hofstra, and it was two-a-days every day for, it seemed like...
02:13Was Danielle at Hofstra at that time?
02:15Because that would have been very likely.
02:16This would have been, yeah, if she was there in 99.
02:19Oh, look out.
02:20Anyway, sorry.
02:20So, but it was two-a-days, and it was full pads in the morning for, like, two and a half hours.
02:26Then you had a break and a little bit of lunch or a workout, and then it was full pads in the afternoon.
02:31Jesus.
02:32And then it was meetings all night, but, you know, obviously now the league is taking care of guys,
02:38and I think they do a good job because, you know, we used to just pound each other all day long.
02:44Pause, but...
02:48That came out wrong.
02:49Yeah, I mean, as soon as you started saying pound, I said, okay, Wiggs.
02:53But no, and then, you know, but it was a good introduction, I guess, coming in with Parcells,
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