But what tells you that a player is ready to be trusted with the complete demands of that position?

You know, it's how he handles and takes care of the football.

At this position, the ball is life.

We always say the ball is life.

And if you lose it, I mean, you're dealing with a lot of people's jobs and careers.

You know, and we're trusting you to put the ball in your hands.

And we're probably going to touch it more than anybody on the team other than the quarterback.

Yes.

We just talk about competition every year, but does that bring it to a, a new level when you've got so much experience in that room?

You know, um, we don't have as much experience in that room, but, uh, 'cause all my guys were, if they were somewhere else, they were back up and, you know, they weren't starters.

But I like, like I said, they complement each other's skill set.

I do like that, and I thought we brought in the right guys for that and- and- and we're gonna just let 'em compete and let iron sharpens iron, and we'll see what happens.

Because right now, you know, I- I can't tell you there's one clear cut starter, I can't.

But, I think, but we'll see.

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If- if there is a little more zone blocking this year compared to the past, what does that do for the, for the run game? How does that affect Bill or anybody else in terms of what, you know, what they may be looking at?

Martin's head hit the pavement and he caused catastrophic brain damage to my brother.

I mean like CCTV footage showed Martin had his hands in his pockets as well like so like he wasn't expecting an argument he wasn't expecting any kind of confrontation at all you know he just simply wanted to get into the house I mean he hadn't even got his hands out of his pockets to be able to defend his body from being propelled to the ground like you know there was no way to get hands up in time you know like a natural instinct where if you fall you put your hands out and there was none they were in his pockets like you know and he was just propelled to the ground with such force like and yeah the damage was caused like I remember we were at a wedding it was our first time being away from my little girl We woke up that morning and Sharon had got a call from her father and he said come to the hospital quick, Martin is here.

I could tell by the worry in Sharon's eyes that the gravity of the situation was quite severe.

And I was trying my best to reassure her saying, we don't know exactly the extent of what's going on, so let's wait until we get there.

We eventually got there and I suppose the gravity of the situation fully set in as to what was happening.

It was haunting.

It was terrifying.

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