Andre Waters

I lost Reggie Roby to this.

I lost your eagle, my brother, Andre Waters, to this.

Yes.

Yes.

Right.

And when you think about the names that were on that defense from the Jerome Brown, Clyde Simmons, Reggie White, Andre Waters.

You had Seth Joyner.

And then on the offense, Randall Cunningham, he was electric.

Semi-retiring or retiring and turning things over to his son.

Why couldn't you wait a few years? Put Andre Waters and Wes Hopkins in as a ticket this year who so richly deserve to go in.

There's plenty of other players.

I think I did a piece on guys who should be in the Eagles Hall of Fame.

And what I mean by that is this.

Some of these guys were crying out, like Dave Dorsen, And some of these guys like Tom McHale, Andre Waters, Junior Seau, were crying out for help.

League never heard them.

And the league says it's not on us.

Dave Durison was a friend, dude.

As was Andre Waters.

As was Tom McHale.

I went out to dinner the day before Tom McHale killed himself.

And I know everybody's gonna blame CTE, but had those guys been able to say, come forward and say, "Hey, I'm not feeling good.

Something's wrong," we would've still had Andre Waters with us, and Junior Seau, and all these other guys that we admire, and we've h- we would have so many more fathers, and sons, and brothers, and friends.

So yeah.

And you know what? As an Eagles fan, you know, the sports fan in me, yeah, it's kind of like, "Oh, man, what were we gonna do with the season? It's, it's taking a really n- a, a big nosedive." But you know what? The last thing ...

How does your day start?

So for the last 20 years, since the 20th anniversary of me getting Andre Waters' brain, November 2006, I have started the day, sadly, reading obituaries.

I have the worst Google alerts you could imagine with various keywords.

And I start the day going, did someone pass away overnight or yesterday that I now need to call?

I know this person.

We'd like just play this game of trying to get me to talk to somebody in the orbit of the family as fast as possible.

Andre Waters are people who don't remember how his brain wound up in your possession.

Can you remind people what his story was? I

You're telling me this guy can't throw a ball with one arm?

What does he need a left arm for anyway? Andre Waters played a game with a broken leg and a Bible saying taped to his forehead.

About revenge

against Emmitt Smith.