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I'm call thirteen fourteen past, I'm past ten and be quick.

Text on our last bit of conversation it says, I completely understand the James Garner sentiment.

It'll be a cold day in hell before I watch the Naked Gun reboot without Leslie Nielsen.

God rest his soul, the greatest actor of our time.

There's sometimes you just can't you do a reboot.

If you take out the guy that made the show is hard, it can still be good t him.

You're right, I haven't seen the Naked Gun reboot yet, and I have.

I'm very suspicious as well.

I've heard it's actually good, yeah, and I do plan on watching it at some point.

Let's do a five three four reboot.

We do that every day, and it's better.

Take over.

Well, some people would say it gets worse every.

Day time now for five questions, Well, actually three but five sounds like more than four.

Question number one, It's now time to take an in depth look at the welfare of the Wolves.

The Wolves dispatched of a shorthanded Mavericks team one eighteen one to five last night in Dallas.

The MAVs were without Kyrie Irving, Anthony Davis, Cooper, flag Klay Thompson, and Derek Lively.

Julius Randall led all Wolves with thirty one points.

Nasred added twenty three common what sticks out to you from last night's Wolves win?

The the the guys that were doing lower management that weren't there.

I just it's like and the people that love the association maybe and and you know, it's like, you know how he talked about.

I've just finally come to the conclusion that around the league there are teams that when you're playing lesser teams, you just kind of sometimes go through the motions.

You just do.

And you'll never convince me that they don't.

I guess, I don't know.

I don't Maybe they all have legitimate injuries and can't play.

Maybe they do even and well, I don't know how bad his injury is, because he'll play a couple of games, he'll sit a game, he'll play a couple of games, he'll sit a game.

Well, if it's that nagging, wouldn't you want to just well, let's sit them for two weeks and make sure it gets you know, I don't know.

I don't know the extent of his injury.

I mean the Mavericks, those names you mentioned for a guy that's not paying his close attention to the NBA in general and specifically the Dallas Mavericks.

That sounds like their whole starting lineup.

Well, and it sounds like a good starting line up.

Yet, if you look at their record I'm looking at right now, they are the eleventh seed.

They are nineteen and twenty eight, eighteen and a half games behind the Thunder, just out of a playoff spot.

Forget the seven, eight, nine and ten, just out of sixth place.

They are nine and a half games behind the Wolves.

So I don't know if it matters.

And you know they're I you know, if you if you're play for the Dallas Mavericks, are you even worried about making postseason play?

I mean, you can still get to that play and stuff.

I get that, but do you even really care deep down if you get there?

Well, I guess if we get there, we'll play.

But so I don't know, I don't, I don't know what you know and I you know.

And again sometimes guys, even.

Though they had a number one pick, you still have you know, Kyrie irvrings up there in age.

Anthony Davis has been around for a while, like he's stilled.

Well, a d is a window permanently.

I'm not when I say permanently like he's got a long term injury, I think.

I don't think he's just he doesn't work.

He's street closed.

That's why they call him that.

So I think means like Klay Thompson's at the end of the road.

Like you know, so you're not thinking, hey, because we have Cooper Flag.

We're thinking three years from now, you're still trying to win now.

Yeah, but uh so I don't know what to think.

But yeah, you know, yeah, So I mean that's a team you should be right.

I mean, there's yes, the line up, they trot it out and they did.

So that's about what I take from it.

You question number two, it's time now for it's a low down in Dinky Town.

The Gophers men's basketball team blew a twenty point lead, falling two Wisconsin sixty seven sixty three last night in Madison.

The Gophers have lost sixth straight and they've lost eleven in a row to the Badgers.

Minnesota was I thought, it's leading scorer Kaid Tyson, who has an ankle injury.

Common and you're starting to give up hope on this year's Gophers B ball team.

Well give up hope as far as making the big Dance, as we like to call it.

I guess I am I because I'm not because you didn't do a programming predict for me.

Oh for last night, I didn't even realize they were playing.

Sorry, I'm not keeping on my pocket schedule like rosen Is.

I'd like to have watched that.

I think I've told you that I I follow Wisconsin because Trevor Winter, who we text and talk more than most people know.

Trevor was a big fan of Common in the fan back when he played here.

He used to listen all the time.

He was able to secure Potato and I some uh uh invited us to go attend the game.

I was able to get us some nice seats, not to pay, but we got us some nice seats.

I guess I coulda got him on my own.

I don't know how it works, but you know, I'm not I'm not going Rosan on the bit, you know, and waiting for the Lexus club invitation.

But so, you know, and his boy Nolan played with my boy not on the same team, but they weren't, you know, they they were They were Lakeville North and we were east Ridge.

But so I always like to keep tabs tabs on Nolan and and and how we play.

And he's established he's turning into a pretty good player.

So uh, you know again, Tannaby, I just how many point lead to the Gophers.

Half twenty and they went to eighteen at half times, so they're eighteen and a half.

Yeah, they've had this happen a couple of times now.

They were leading number seven Nebraska by six at the half.

I think not that's obviously not as big a collapse, but then they end up getting beat by twenty five.

So I, you know, yeah, I again, I can't analyze their team.

I don't know the you know, I think I think some of the guys they've gotten the portal.

Do they have some seniors, which is good and bad.

If they're seniors, they're gone after this year, and if you're trying to build something when you're missing your leading score, that that's going to give you some trouble.

If he's in the game, does that make a difference, I don't know.

You would think, sure, there's they're they're fun to watch, and that you know.

I've watched a handful of game games this year, a half here, an entire game.

I probably again watched one full game and a couple of you know, a half here and a half there.

I will say that, you know, Medved, does he win?

Google him.

I've made the comparison before.

From what I've read, he's like Fleck and that in these smaller places he's been, didn't PJ win everywhere?

He was at all those Michigan schools, and he won.

He always had good records, and that's why he got a chance at the Big ten and and Medved and then Medved was winning at was it CSU or was it Coerce?

Yes, CSU.

He got the team into the So the guy can obviously coach, must be able to recruit a little bit.

And so yeah, I guess like I'm certainly not expecting a Cinderella story at the big day.

I don't.

Doesn't look like we'll see.

I don't think they're going to get an invite.

I guess you could win the Big ten tournament, but that's probably asking a bit much from that club.

You got some really good Big ten schools, so uh but yeah, you know, you know, if you give me a programming predicament and I remember, I'll watch them again.

But yeah, I don't think they're gonna They're not gonna surprise anybody and win an NCAA tournament.

This question number three programming predicaments.

The Wild host the Calgary Flames tonight at seven pm.

You can watch it on Fandel Sports Network and on Channel forty five, and you, of course can hear it right here on the on the fan.

The Timberwolves host the Oklahoma City Thunder at eight thirty pm.

That's on Prime.

You can listen to it on the iHeartRadio app Comin what are you Gonna do about tonight's programming predicaments?

Theme song, rip Rap wrote and perform my Mike host Mike Post.

If you google them google them if he went, He's writt.

Ratt wrote and performed the theme songs for I Bet it's at least six seven different television shows.

Remember the show are you I don't?

It was well before your time?

Have you ever?

Do you remember a show though called Hill Street Blues?

Heard the name remember seeing it was was really kind of a breakthrough police show.

And he did the theme song for that show as well.

So, and you know what, both the Rockford Files themes and the theme for Hill Street Blues were so catching, so popular.

They were they were instrumentals, but they were played on radio.

I remember playing and that's the theme from Hill Street Blues, Mike post here on.

But you couldn't hit the post.

You could do a You could read the whole entire farmer Farmer's Almanac because it was an instrumental.

There was no vocals to stop you from talking.

So if you wanted to do in a manning heating and air conditioning weather forecast, it wasn't needed have to keep it to what was it on thunder Island?

You got was it twenty seven seconds or twenty nine seconds to do the forecast, So you could do the three day with the Rockford Files, you could do a well, you could read the Like I said, you could read the whole in Farmer's Almanac.

Whether Ford is next question.

Oh you didn't even actually actually did talk about the frog and predicament other than the theme song.

That's yeah, I'll watch ruck you watch Truckford Files.

I think.

Question number three and now it's time to go.

In the trenches.

Bill Barnwell of ESPN dot com ranked every NFL head coaching hire since twenty twenty one.

He has Dan Campbell of the Lions ranked number one, followed by Nick Sirianni and the Eagles at two, Mike McDonald at the Seahawks at three, Mike Vrabel of the Patriots at four, Demico Ryans of the Houston Texans at five.

I have Sean Payton of the Broncos at six, Kevin o'call of the Vikings at seven, Ben Johnson and the Bears at eight, Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers at nine, and then Dan Quinn and the Commanders at ten.

Common do you agree with Bill Barnwell's rankings?

Uh?

Wow?

Why do you have fallen?

Two years ago he was Coach of the Year and I was plummeted to seven.

No wonder.

One of my golfing pals regular listen to the show said, how can I didn't even know what he was referring to he goes, how can Dan Campbell still be number one when the team plummeted from first to worst?

I don't know.

I mean, I think, you know, I don't know if Barmell had an explanation for each one of these, and maybe he did it, or maybe I'll take a look at it read it.

I would assume this.

What I would just assume is he took a team that historically had been the worst team, and that was a franchise that was never you know, they had one NFC you know, you know how we talk about the Wolves and the Wild with one, you know, while two now, but you know, one Western Conference Finals appearance.

The Lions have only had one NFC Championship game appearance.

That was back in nineteen ninety one.

Playoff appearances were few and far between.

They were like until Campbell came around, they had appeared since their last big game or you know before you know, their last World Championship NFL Championshi was fifty seven.

From fifty seven until Stafford came along, or even with Stafford, they had an eleven playoff appearances in all those years.

So I guess that's why you put them there.

And they weren't just like they got in with ten and seven records.

They had two really dominant years.

So you know, Campbell, you could put Siriani there, though, you can put a handful of those guys at number one, I think.

But anyway, let's go make McDonald hire.

Seattle looks pretty good right now?

Yeah, well absolutely they do.

Uh, And that's it for today's edition of five question well actually three questions, but five sounds like more than four.

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I'm about to say something controversial that's interesting.

I like jam better than jelly.

How about you.

I'm over jelly guys, so really I don't really like you anymore.

Yeah, I figured we're going to be arguing here.

Think about it.

Well, that that kind of a question will tear even more controversy.

Oh, go ahead.

Grape or strawberry.

There was a time I was there would have been a time it would have been grape every day all day.

Now I'm I lean straw see brown fish or green fish, green fish, brownfish.

I always love that.

One.

Baby brother Peter used to like uncrustables.

Ye, and I thought that might be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of that.

I thought really pre made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and you know, like a like a pocket right, you know it's yeah, frozen, tried one one day, love it.

No.

I'm at Hazelty National Golf Club, which I've had the pleasure of and you know the the I've been fortunate enough to be invited there before.

Right, So you get to the halfway House, have whatever you want.

Thanks.

I have a chef that's making like hot food there, you know, you know, free, free, free, right, well, or maybe member guys got to pay.

I don't know, but they have a fridge with some other things that you can just help yourself.

It's uncrustables as long as their thought out there going oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah.

But it always takes forever if you have them in the freezer.

It takes forever from the thought.

A couple of uncrustables and you can't put them in the microwave or anything.

Take those crustables, put them on your grill about ninety seconds on each side, and you eat your way right through to the grill.

What they say?

Uh, there was another text message that I think really could well.

I think my answer can get me to the bottom of the ol, which is really all I'm trying to do right now.

But where the heck did it go?

Thank you?

I don't One person said, you know that phone call that kept ringing and said, maybe that's the call you've been waiting your whole life for.

What if it was?

Then I just and then I just hung up on it.

That could really be.

I don't know.

I thought I had a really good text message there, but I don't.

I do have this in my I saved this on my phones.

I wanted to bring us up to you and ask you a questions.

Let me get to my hold on, don't go anywhere, stay right where you are.

Oh, this will be, will be.

I read a story parents in parenting, The rise of faho parenting fatho?

Is this the end of gentle child?

Rearly?

Mothers on social media are advocating a tough, no nonsense approach to parenting.

Does this teach children important lessons or just make them feel isolated and ashamed?

It's a controversial topic, fao.

I can't say it on.

You can't say it, but you know it's yeah, yeah.

And because you know, you will see I was never this way.

My children would never behave like this, Deuce and baby brother Peter.

But you get your spoiled brats throwing tantrums and such, and inst know then I do with maybe brother Peter.

Now it can be zero degrees and he'll leave the house without a coat, winter coat.

Bring a coat.

I don't mean one.

I'm just going to the car and then I'm going into the mall.

I know, but you should still have a coat.

It's cold out there with the car race down.

I'll be all right, all right, leap around and find out, well, you know what, he's still alive.

So I guess I've been wrong with the cot think.

But apparently that's the gist of the story daily occurrence to the coat thing, right, So.

We're going to take a deep dive.

It raises lots of interesting issues and we'll do it.

It'll be everybody does have different parenting approaches.

Uh, you know, I wouldn't say I don't think anyone knows right now.

Well that's it.

I don't think they do.

I I probably am somewhere between it and find out faffo between fa and gentle because you know, I'm also I wouldn't have I don't consider myself I was necessarily a helicopter parent, right, but I was you know how crazy the world is out there, So I did keep a pretty close eye on them.

I mean I didn't put like what are those tags those apple tags or something you can put on your kids, you know where they are all the time.

I didn't go to that extent, but it was always check in before you go somewhere, tell me where you're going, tell me where you're going to be.

I just want to know crazy old No, No, I don't either, you know, going back, and you know, you and I've discussed this.

Back in my day.

You would just get up in the morning and I would go to pony in the summer, go to Pony League baseball.

We'd never talk to our parents or see our parents until we got home for dinner.

We'd be got because my both my mom and dad worked.

We're six seven, eight ten years old, six seven, you know, and you know we're go out to Pony leagu baseball play, come back, make our own lunch.

You know.

I used to make grilled cheese sandwiches because I couldn't cook right.

So what we would do is you would take a couple of pieces of wonderbread, white bread.

It builds strong bodies twelve ways, right, you put that in there.

You take one of those slices of craft cheese, you know that come in the individual plastic.

You put it on a butter knife, and we would hold the uh, the slice of cheese and the butter knife over the toaster as it was toasting the bread.

The heat that came up would melt that nut so it would drip.

It would just get it soft, so it would come down like that.

And then when the toast popped up you put it in between the toast.

And you eat it the way.

That's what I would have for lunch and potato chips.

You're constantly trying to come up with things for digital digital.

That's what that's what I want to watch on digital.

Go do that at home.

I'm going to do that videotape of view of yourself doing it.

I'll do that.

That's what I'll do.

I'll do that on digital.

Is that?

And that's how Woolmer tricks?

Yeah, that was.

That was my grilled cheese sandwich back in the day because we were on our own, on our own Patty LaBelle Mike McDonald great song.

So yeah, so, I you know, as far as the parenting, everybody's got their own theories and their own way to do it, and I think there's a happy medi in there.

You know.

I'm just not going to continue it because like one of the examples is kid wants to go out and she says, is you know it's time to go to bed.

I want to go outside.

She goes, okay, go ahead, close the door on him.

And he's out there all by himself in the dark.

But it only takes about sixty seconds and he's banging on the roy He wants to get back hen It's almost like he wants to get his way first.

But here's a combination of that.

I do have another controversial NFL story because I didn't want to use it now because I think it could take up the whole segment before we bring Rosy in.

But it has to do with the Blue Tent and you see an NFL sidelines.

We'll take a look at the Blue Tents.

Very controversial it is.

We'll talk about it next here on the common Man program with the Fan.

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A couple of thirteen fourteen pastime common he's tending to be watching?

Is it the farmers at Tory Pines is at the event this weekend?

Yes?

And well santyego, what is awful?

Nice when they're there?

When I was there was raining and cloudy.

It looks lovely there, Yeah, it does look lovely.

Also, you know how Mark Rosen once wanted who was ever covering the Masters that you were to show every Bryson d shadows shut.

They're basically doing that treatment of the Brooks cupcut today because this is his first round on the PGA Tour back from the Live Golf.

He says one, they have showed like every shot of his today.

Boy, and he just.

He sliced that way right he's in.

Oh, he's short of the fair way.

Banka looks like fairly thick rough.

Someone asked me on the text, man, that was the one I was looking for.

When someone said, but seeing you bringing up Kepka reminding me of that, somebody said, what is your take on Kopka coming back to the tour, And I'm alright with it.

I mean, if the players are okay with it?

You know, you know his contemporary, his peers, because if you remember, he got a big check played for him claims the reason he did.

I'll think I'll take his word for it.

Well, I thought my career was over because I was injured, riddled, so I'm just gonna eat.

I was in it for the money.

I thought I was done competing.

He won five majors, and now all of a sudden, I want to spend more time with my family, and I guess he feels like he can spend more time with his family on tour than he does would live though.

I think Live plays way fewer events, but there's probably more travel involved.

I don't know.

And whatever his reasons are, it don't make it.

Don't make no never reminded me.

I think the tour is better when you have the Kepskazes, the ramses Is, the Smith's is.

I think it is a better tour, but it's it's if you're one of the guys on tour that said I'm gonna stand tall and I'm not going to take the live money.

And now the live guys took the live money.

Now they're ready to come back, and they got all the money's they got the best of both worlds.

I think the tour is better with those players.

I think it hurts live too, because I don't even know how many people watch live.

I I don't know.

I don't think it's grown and leaps and bounds like they wanted to.

But if you take now, Rom apparently is still staying, and so is what's this What's Smith's first name, Cameron Smith?

He's still staying.

I just saw Patrick Reid wants out.

Yes, and he's another big name, though he's not as big a name.

It's like, I don't tune in to watch Patrick Reid play talented player, won the Masters, but you know.

It's still not like one of those you know, you had a bunch of like the has beens and never was is that went over there because their their careers.

We're based over correct.

But he can still play.

But he can still play.

But he's not a guy.

I tune in for.

I tune in for.

I'll tune in to watch guy like watching kept play golf.

Rom Sure, absolutely, And then you know the Rory's and all you know Scheffler and now this new kid the Blades Bones, Blades, Blades Brown that can can fly.

I feel like this is the beginning of the end of living.

So it's already not been great.

And Patrick Gresley and there's even rumors of Bryson, you know, Bryson d Schambau comes back rushing d Chambeau.

Then they got nobody, but John Rahm saw a story tennebe This might even take a couple of segments.

We might have to bring it up again tomorrow.

And did I save the whole story?

Or not.

Why do I have so much trouble?

This is why I don't like.

That's what I do.

I just I overload my circuits.

I'll find it here in second here it is O none.

I like when we get to this part of Intermishman.

I like that part.

Yeah, I think he had lived that.

We don't always get to that part.

So this is a story that's from the Athletic that's conducted by the Athletic staff.

The NFL staff headline do NFL players ever hide concussion symptoms?

Anonymous player poll shows yes and no.

You and I have discussed that topic.

I've always wondered when they get into that blue tent.

Sometimes you'll see key players, guys you almost have to have win come out of the tent and they can play really And other times you'll have key players that don't come back.

Story says.

This piece is part of the Athletics annual NFL Anonymous Player Survey career a range of topics around the league, and says head injuries in the NFL's concussion protocol are still polarizing topics among NFL players.

More than a few were reluctant to engage in a discussion even as part of our annual Anonymous player survey.

For instance, when asked if he'd ever tried to hide concussions try to hide the concussion symptoms, one AFC offensive player responded he had not, before adding and if I did, I wouldn't disclose it to you.

Data data on concussions from the twenty twenty five seasons not yet available, but according to the NFL, concussions decreased seventeen percent from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four, a twelve percent drop compared to the twenty twenty one through twenty twenty three seasons.

This cynic and me would think, are those numbers real?

Or because you know they're always trying to you'll see that PSA that they play during games like once a game.

The NFL always trying to make football safer.

I do believe they are, and I'll take their word that these numbers are accurate.

We've had less concussions, he says.

As as far as identifying concussions, league doctors continue to evaluate three four players for every concussion diagnoses.

Players who answered our questions offered a wide range of thoughts.

Yes, I've hid symptoms, said an AFC offensive player, who included that he did not regret doing so.

It's all in your head.

Concussions are all in your head.

Yeah, literally literally, But it sounds like he's saying nah, like he doesn't even believe in them.

A different AFC offensive player said, sometimes you go lights out for a second, you just have to play it off, get in the huddle.

Conversely, NFC offensive players said guys are stupid if they don't do that, we don't mess around with our brains, and NFC defensive player said, hell, no, I would never do that.

If my bleep isn't feeling good, I'll tell you and leave the game.

Sounds that the guys in the NFC are a little more cautious than the guys in the AFC, and then it has a little you know.

They did a survey conducted by the Athletic of anonymous NFL players from December eleventh of twenty twenty five to January fifth, of twenty twenty six.

Have you ever tried to hide concussion symptoms from a doctor?

There were seventy seven votes tennabe, What do you think the percentages were for?

Yes and no?

Have you ever tried to hide concussion symptoms?

From a doctor.

How many What are these people being pulled that they all have concussions or is this this general?

You know what I mean?

Well, it sounds like it's the question is have they tried to hide concussion symptoms?

So they must have symptoms and they're trying to hide them from because they want to play.

I BET's like fifty percent this says it's only nineteen point five say yes.

Eighty point five percent said no.

However, the story goes on to say there were more nuanced takes.

One NFC defensive player said, for sure, meaning I've tried football is about availability more than ability.

You want to be available.

You can hide certain symptoms, and you're going to hide whatever you can to be out there.

I know it's a shameful.

It's shameful to say.

An AFC offensive player said, I think there's a gray area basically your brain.

I think it's great.

I think there's a gray area with guys who know they got their bell wrong or just want to stay in and don't want to see the doctor, versus actually trying to hide symptoms.

I think even the toughest guys know how brutal this game is and don't want to add extra risk.

I think once you're in the league for a few years, you learn more about the fine line between Okay, I can play through this and oh, bleep, I'm really hurt.

That goes for a back injury or a concussion, And a different NFC defensive player said, I personally haven't tried to hide concussions in the league.

I think there are levels to concussions.

You feel a little dizzy and you don't know if it's concussion or not, and you're trying not to alarm anybody.

But I feel like, if it's bad enough, you should let somebody know.

And it says our pole results only reflect players who said they tried to hide concussion symptoms.

If the results included players who said they did did so at a lower level of football, so at his high school or college, then twenty six percent of respondents admitted to hiding concussion symptoms at some point in their past.

Of those who said they have hidden concussion symptoms that answer a follow up question about whether they regretted it, eight said they had no regrets, while one said he did.

So that's your story about then, Because I've always wondered if players would want to play through them, or if would they not?

And then I decided Tennabee, this is the research I'm doing.

This is a different comment, right, You think I would ever have done this before I decided to.

I've always wondered, how did they test for Concusrussian symptoms in that little blue tent.

They pull it over, we don't see anything, So I trusted AI and it says the NFL concussion protocol conducted in the blue tent by team physicians and unaffiliated neuro trauma consultants consist of a focused, rapid neurological exam to identify symptoms.

This includes reviewing a game video, assessing memory, maddox questions.

Remember that TV show Mattlock, That's what this is all about, madoc questions, PI tracking, pupillary response, and the tandem gait slash balance test.

Key components of the intent evaluation include video review, the team physician and UNC that's the unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant review the mechanism of injury using tablet technology to look for high risk signs.

Then there's a symptom checklist in history of a review of potential symptoms headache, dizziness, and history of prior concussions, then Maddox questions, and there are a variety of those tend to be which I took a look at and where did I find those?

Here are some of the Maddox questions.

I'm going to ask you a few questions.

Please listen carefully and give your best effort.

At what venue are we today?

Which half is it now?

Who scored last in this match?

What did you what did you play last week?

Or did you mean to say what did you play?

Did your team win the last game?

The Madox questions are used as part of the clinical assessment of possible concussion on the sports sideline, along with other assessments described in SCAT three.

So going that's the maus going back.

They also do the neurological exam evaluation of cervical spine speech gate meaning how you're walking.

I suppose they say, can you walk in a straight line?

Right?

An eye movement?

That's called oculu motor exam.

I know all about the oculo motor exam.

Balance assessment.

The modified Balance error scoring system is used to check for stability no GROW criterion.

If a player displays loss of consciousness, confusion, amnesia, or gross motor instability, they are immediately ruled out, I would hope.

So if the assessment suggests a concussion, or if it is inconclusive, the players taken to the locker room for a more comprehensive fifteen minute examination.

Still seems like they're able to discover things pretty quickly because they generally aren't in that blue tent for very long.

But that's what goes on in that because I always wondered, do they just hold up a finger and go, how many fingers do I have?

One?

Okay, you're back in.

But obviously it sounds like it's a bit more.

And I knew that it was, you know, a bit more, but I didn't know exactly what they go through.

And those are the things and then if like I mean, if you if you flunk those, it's like, well, you know, you're out.

But if like they said there, if there's like well I don't know, let's go, let's bring him into the locker room.

When you see the guy going to the locker room, that's because they're thinking I'd seen conclusive and there's a chance he could, and so they send him to the to the locker room.

I've always thought the bluetent's kind of funny because I don't feel like it serves really any purpose other than saving the rear ends of the league and saving them money.

Right because whenever the when they went through all the entire concussion drama for such a long time, and now they're trying to reduce concussions.

But now if they want to test them a concussion instead of doing it out in the open where there's cameras on them and you can write, like before you'd be able to tell, you'd have a camera on a player and you could tell, Wow, they still look like they have concussion symptoms, and then they still put them back in the game.

That creates liability reasons, there's future lawsuits, right, So in an effort to save themselves a lot of money, they just hide that diagnosis from the public.

Yes, yes, I I I could see that.

This one says.

Those maddox questions sound what the kind of thing Sauce would fail easily.

That's what I thought.

Matter fact, when I was looking at them, I wanted to do the bit where I would ask questions you would ask Sauce.

But then I thought that's too much work, so I didn't want to do that.

I had Sauce used before in a sentence two plus two before this one says, I think what tena hold on I was trying to get to?

Is still a good question.

Earlier you said like twenty percent of players tried to hide concussion symptoms.

What is unclear as are some of those answers no simply saying no because they never had concussion symptoms.

A better way to ask would be, if you have had concussion symptoms, did you try to hide them?

And I guess yeah, And I don't know if that that's I just read the way it was written, So I don't know if they if they did that, because yeah, if you've never had a concussion, you know, I look back two you know we said did they say something about some bright light?

You see right now what he said in the concussion Then let me go back to that to the story.

Can you give me the.

Thank you?

Still with me?

Okay?

Here it is so the player said, sometimes you go lights out for a second, you just have to play it off, get in the huddle, meaning lights out light I you know, I I don't.

Even though I was a fierce pass rushing rocket gibralt to run stopping defensive lineman and a precise route, running sure and at pass catching tight and back in Counrappas Athletic Association Football in grades four, fifth and six.

I don't ever remember really really getting my bell wrong.

I have.

Have you ever bumped your head so hard you see stars?

I'm not like you're going to get into your car.

Do you smack it on the on the roof of the car or like your you're you're maybe looking inside of a cabinet and then you pull your head up and smack it really hard.

I've had that happen, so I guess I would say that's happened once or twice in the six seven years I've been on the planet.

So is that a concussion?

If you see lights out?

Is that?

Is that absolutely positively a concussion system.

That's something I don't know and I can't answer, but yeah, if I were a player, I you know, And it is a tough call, especially if you are in you know, wanting to hide it because not so much because you know, availability is better than what is it ability or availability?

Right?

Yeah, and being there for your teammates, but even selfishly, like let's say you're in the big game, you might not ever play in it.

You might be your first one, and you know if you're never going to get back.

And let's say you're defensive back and you have a head to head collision with a wide receiver and you go down right and you have the flash, you kind of know I got not But and I'm worried about my health.

But because it's the Cup, because it's the Lombardi troph Well, a peer pressure from teammates too, that too, right, like you, I agree that, But obviously even just for your just selfishly yourself beyond the teammate thing, You're just saying, I want to be in this game.

I don't want to go out midway through the first quarter and not be able to experience playing the entire big game, win or lose.

But and you're right, the teammate thing too, being available for that so I could see where a guy could be tempted, because especially if you say, well, concussions have been around in sports.

Sports, Sports is your whole life, just sports forever.

There are many players in all sports that get into their that live into their seventies and eighties, right that.

I you know, I don't I can't name any names, but I'm assuming with all the people that have played sports, there are people of that had concussions many times, and they haven't affected to the point where you know they're right, that they're still able to function, they haven't lost memory.

So you're thinking, dude, I'm willing to play.

I know I just got by, but this is the big game for crying out out.

And then you wonder.

I told you the line about le dou when they stopped the fight against Holmes because if his eye was all swelled shut, doctor stopped the fight.

They asked, Ledu, you wanted to continue to fight?

The doctor said you could have lost your eye.

Scott said, what's an eye when you've given your heart?

Brilliant?

Okay, And should a person be allowed I'm willing.

Yeah, I've had a concussion, my bell got wrong, but I want to get back in there.

Do you think a player should be able to play or do you think they need to be told you didn't pass it.

If you're thinking is impaired, then they can't, right, well, well yeah, right yeah, And then of course I think the league's also covering you know.

It's it called cya.

We're doing a lot of those today, cya because all of a sudden, just because a guy wanted to go back in.

Let's say he gets it he's debilitated after retirement.

Well you let me play, well you said you wanted to.

Yeah, but you should have stopped me.

I'm a player.

What do you think I wanted to do?

So?

Yeah, you open yourself up.

I guess for lawsuits there as well.

So I don't know.

I am.

I know sometimes once every three months you'll tell me something and I'll bump my head really hard leaving the studio.

Have you seen the construction project?

Where have you ducked in behind the You know they got the plastic sheeting up so the dust doesn't spread.

Have you been back to look where our old cafeteria was.

That's gonna be I was.

I was thinking to myself, I know they're going to knock out a wall in the engineering room too, But I said, there's there's no way you're gonna have a very big performance studio.

I think it's going to be a decent sized.

It won't be as large as the other one, but I still think you can get a couple of thirteen fourteen people in there.

So progress is continuing here.

Could is it big enough?

For an audience for a little long Junes.

Yes, okay, it's way too big for a flop, sweat and tears performance though No, why haven't you had a flop, sweat and tears too at the performance room?

Well, because the station wouldn't want us to do it for free, free free, And there's an old saying in comedy that I just made up no money, no funny will break come back.

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