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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing well, relatively. I, I, uh, I have battled through three sicknesses in the month, which is a new record. I guess that's how happens when you have a one year old and you just catch everything. And you do the Super Bowl and you do the combine. I'm just going to beg everybody in media to wash your hands always because I'm blaming all of you guys. I wash my hands thoroughly these weeks because I knew I had a one year old and I didn't want to do this. But I'm actually doing a lot better because I'm over the hump. I'm a person, if I sound bitter, I never get sick. And so now all of a sudden I get three in a month and I'm like, what is happening to me?

What is this? This is your 30. This is just, you just get sick all the time, but apparently that is. But I am, yeah, I'm doing, I'm doing well. I really am actually. You know, it's good to get back. I think everyone's been doing that. Dane was sick for a little while. I was sick and I'm never sick.

I managed to get sick in Mexico, and I bounced back when I got to the combine, but it seems like everyone was going through that this year, especially the people who did the Super Bowl combine back to back. A lot of crowded rooms, a lot of dry, right? Like, Vegas is very dry. The weather was a little bit dreary. It's dry on planes. These are things I never thought about

before. When I was 26, I was invincible. There was nothing that I, that no, nothing concerned me.

I could move through the world in whatever way I wanted to with no concern for how the outside

environment would affect me. And that, that's just no longer the case.

You have a cold?

That's nice.

Whatever.

I don't have to worry about that. Or if I do catch it, it's like, oh, whatever. I only felt it for like half a day. That's it. But nope. I actually have to be conscious. Oh, that guy just covered his mouth. Eh, elbow bump. Or elbow bumping right now. You know, we got to do that.

But it's a long month, but it actually feels nice.

Here we are in March.

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