This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

Today is Tuesday, September 21st.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today, it is our new national NFL writer at the athletic.

Also covering the Colts Still a little bit and the co-host of the 1% Better podcast,

Stephen Holder.

Steven, how you doing, man?

I'm doing great.

I'm doing great.

I am doing better than Carson Wentz because I only have one sprained ankle,

not two. So I won't tell you how I did it because it's just going to indicate that I'm getting

old. But yeah, man, I've had a swollen ankle for like a week. So I'm not available to play

quarterback for the Colts. I just want to put that out there. I guarantee you the way that I sprained my ankle on my training camp trip was more embarrassing than however you sprained your ankle. Does walking down the steps of the deck count? It was worse than this. By the way, we're going to do a mailbag today as we're doing every single Tuesday. Appreciate your guys' questions. They were excellent again. We'll get to the questions in the voicemails. I'm feeling a little punchy because it's Monday and I'm tired, so I'm going to tell this story. So when I got done at Dolphins Camp, I'm driving to Jacksonville. As a veteran of South Florida and Florida overall, you know that is a shitty drive.

It's not a fun drive.

It is a shitty drive. It's not a fun drive. It is a long drive, okay? And we're like a weekend to the training camp tour. I have not had a day off because I went to Tampa on the only day off. They were the only team practicing on the first, and I was like, I'm using this day. Do not have the stamina I had when I was 24, but this is a whole other story. So I pull off to the side of it. I'm starving. Those training camp days, you just forget to eat for like 12 hours. I'm so hungry. So it's just a world of strip malls, like probably an hour outside of Miami, as most of Florida in that stretch tends to be. I see a Wendy's and I'm going to go to the Wendy's. I'm going to get dinner. I ate like shit on this trip. So I park in the wrong

parking lot and the Wendy's is one over and I can't get there. So I have to walk through like some

bushes to get into the Wendy's parking lot. As I'm walking through these bushes, my shirt catches on the bush, and I twist as I'm

walking off the curb, and I just snap my ankle.

And I'm like, you got to be kidding.

You got to be kidding me.

It's like, you have to be kidding me.

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