Like I said, I wish I could do this process under a rock, you know, I'm saying just to myself and pop out whenever I felt like I was super, super duper, you know, ready to be a pro-boy.

You know what I'm saying, but I think it's power in being out here every day and doing my process in front of the world, you know.

And I always wanted to stand for something bigger than myself. I was my goal in my whole life, you know. I had goals within this game, but you know, life goals, that was the biggest thing.

I wanted to stand for something bigger than myself, and I have the opportunity to do that now, and I'm going to fulfill that.

That's to my hand, I'm back in pads, less than seven months after suffering, cardiac arrest on the field in Cincinnati.

What a ride it has been for him, man.

And hey, you got to process a lot. No, physically.

That's right. By all appearances, he's fine. And Commodio Cordis, the condition that seems to be the consensus that occurred, the very rare outcome of taking a blow to the chest and causing the heart to stop.

It happens a lot with youth baseball. I remember when my son played, he had the plate that you'll wear right here on your sternum to kind of take that blow and dissipate it, so it does it concentrate and cause the heart to stop.

It does happen. The sensitivity to those issues, the AEDs that are showing up everywhere now.

The donations that have been made by teams like the Saints and the Packers, Demar Hamles Foundation. That's all great stuff flowing from this, but now we're back to football.

He's back in pads. And how could you not at some level not be thinking? Was it really just a fluke lightning strike or am I susceptible to this in some way?

And is it going to happen to me again? Yeah. I would be thinking that how could a normal human being not be at least considering the possibility that it wasn't just some fluke thing that could happen to anyone.

It's something specific that happened to me that could happen again. There's going to be some mental box and mental hurdles. He's going to have to continue to overcome there. There's no doubt about that.

I could speak to that to a degree, losing my spleen that next year when I got to play in the preseason. I mean, I was as nervous as I ever was. Practice was one hurdle, but I didn't get hit in practice. I was a quarterback.

And I wasn't totally healthy, but okay, wait, I'm practicing. But was my mind racing and my heart beating extra fast the first time I had to go out and go, wait, when I get hit in the chest here, what's going to happen?

Because I had a big scar when somebody puts their helmet right in my stomach like is that my scar going to be okay?

I mean, so those thoughts are a course are going to go through your brain. And with his case, which is even more dire and crazy, how could they not?

So yeah, that's going to be something that he's going to have to tackle literally in his brain day by day.

Because like he said in one of his quotes, too, right? Hey, football is a sport where, you know, hesitation. It doesn't it doesn't favor the people who hesitate.

You know, we talk about the great teams all the time, the great players. They don't hesitate. Coach says run through the wall. They run through the wall.

You know, when you start to hesitate and think that's usually the guy that does get hurt or something happens. And you know, those are the things he's going to have to continue to battle with and the demons will deal with in his brain here over the next few weeks.

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