It's what you're saying that whenever this ends it'll be because it's emotional as opposed to physical that you'll still be able to play the game at a high level.

I think so if I was the difference is there's a huge level of commitment for your body physically at an older age because it requires so much more care.

Now it requires care when you're younger too but at the same time there's no margin of error when you're 45.

You take hits and you feel every hit you know and when you're younger you have your body's a lot different and when you're 45 your body changes a lot.

So what am I dealing with now I woke up today going holy shit.

There was a few hits and you look at your arm and you got bruises and you got cuts and you got the way it is and you go okay how much longer do I want to make this commitment.

Now see made the commitment for this year and everything's going to be you know like always continue to evaluate you know all these different aspects of play.

Tom Brady on the Let's Go podcast earlier this week with Jim Gray.

I was surprised by his willingness to talk openly about feeling the hits because it's not like he got blown up.

He just got hit like we see quarterbacks get hit all the time right but when you're 45 yeah and you literally are too old for this stuff.

It is going to be harder to get out of bed you are going to feel I don't care what kind of.

Appliability exercises you do and what diet you follow father time is eventually going to whoop your ass and a person I respect very much said five years ago and we've talked about this but it bears repeating.

The arm will be with him the question is the legs and when he can no longer get away from the hits and starts taking them that's when it begins to fall apart.

And we assume he'll just be able to hold it together until the end of the season.

Yeah right.

We assume that but you know one of those hits I mean if he gets sideline and is yeah it's just he's 45 that's right.

Look at the operating we're operating under unprecedented circumstances and so is he there's there's no manual he can read.

There's no one he can talk to about taking hits at the age of 45 we've never seen it before no no it's it's amazing.

I mean it is and he's a tough SOB there's no question about that he's a master in the pocket and always has been and still pretty good there but it's not the same you know and I know it's just one game.

But I'm going to be interested to evaluate this as we go first up there's a lot of people in the football world we know he lost weight during this whole personal issue thing during August right.

We both heard from very credible people was around 15 18 pounds for a guy that's he's not real thick to begin with right.

And then you know you know me I'm always looking at guys legs and butts in their uniforms.

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