Let me tell you something, Pac Nation.

I am sitting here with my second cup of coffee this morning,

and I see the update on Micah Parsons and that ACL of his,

and they are saying mid-October at the earliest.

And I just start laughing because this lines up exactly with what I told you last month.

You understand me?

We are not panicking over here.

I said it back in May, and I am saying it again right now.

The offense is a freight train when everybody is healthy and that early stretch of the schedule is an absolute gift.

Parsons sitting until October is baked in. We built for exactly this kind of thing.

People here ACL and they start acting like the sky is falling.

It is not. We got the pieces. We got the plan and we got time. That is the part nobody wants to talk about.

Time is on our side this year and I am not backing off that take one inch. You know what this whole thing reminds me of?

I ran into Tomek the other day outside the mill.

He is coming off shift, still got that paper dust all over his jacket,

and he is telling me about this movie he watched

where the big action star tears something up,

and then he is back in the next scene swinging from helicopters like nothing

happened. I am standing there with my thermos and I'm trying to explain to this man that real

life does not work that way. Tomek looks at me and he goes, but in the movie he just walks it off.

Walks it off. I told him, listen, you cannot walk off an ACL. That thing needs time. You rush it,

and the whole machine starts making that grinding noise again. And before you know it, you are

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