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Well, if there was any guest I could have picked to be on the show today, it would have been Mark Sanchez, who comes on fairly weekly for us.

He did the Rams Seahawks game, which was the shock of the weekend.

Wow.

Wow, for all of us. What a game. They got receivers making plays. They were playing college last year. I didn't even watch. Okay. So Mark Sanchez, 10 years in the NFL led the Jets, obviously, to AFC championships. He knows the city very well. So I don't want to speculate nor to you, but I was talking to a GM, Steve Kime last night, a former GM, and I said, you know, a 40-year-old or a 39-year-old with a torn Achilles is not a 22-year-old linebacker. It's hard. Rehab's brutal. For a young player that didn't get the bag, doesn't have the legacy, the Super Bowl. Aaron's got all that.

It's a mental game.

Are you, and I said this, if Aaron went six months into this rehab and then just waved the white flag and said, it's not healing,

what is your gut feeling about what he's going through maybe mentally as an older player in a tough surgery?

I've had a season wiped away in one play when I hurt my shoulder, so I know that rollercoaster of emotions that he's feeling because you put so much into it and you ask so much of

yourself during the off season and so much sacrifice for something you absolutely love

and then it's gone like that and so coming to that realization of i'm not playing football for the

rest of this year you lose a little bit of your identity number one psychologically um and then you go into

this like think of like christian bale when he has to go like down in that deep,

dark pit in Batman, right? And he's got to be like in the muck and the mire and just kind of

like hang with himself and toughen himself up and get into this injury cocoon where you kind

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