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Why don't we get started with, I hate to even call it big news, but it's the whole world is a buzzing.

Micah Parsons spoke to the media. Here are a couple quotes from Michael Parsons spoke to the media.

Here are a couple quotes from Michael Parsons.

Number one.

And I'll just say this, unless I'm missing something.

I don't know what everybody else out there has been telling you.

I don't really listen to other podcasts very much.

I will occasionally see things on Twitter or whatever the case may be. But if you've been listening here,

pretty much word for word, what he's saying is what we've been talking about, what I've been saying this whole time. He says, we have a pretty strong nine-month rule.

It's just all about just do the research and the data. There's no good outcomes with players

coming back early from ACL, especially if you're having other things getting fixed up.

So, again, as I've said, it doesn't matter what the doctors say. It doesn't matter

what anybody says. It doesn't matter how he's feeling. It doesn't matter what the scans are. None of

that matters. There is going to be a hard nine month. Again, I didn't know the exact date.

Everybody kind of, or teams can set whatever date they want. The Packers apparently have a very strict nine-month rule where I'm not even going to consider

talking to the doctor, looking at anything, doing anything until the nine-month window passes,

then we can have the discussion.

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