I mean, coming back without playing football at, he's what, 36 now? And trying to play that position after two years off was kind of never gonna be easy and look all that good, right?

No, I think there was always a much higher degree of, of failure, or like we, right, we don't do nuance well, but of failure, that's the non-nuanced perspective, or not being AD and being a really, really good football player o- o- on a range, because it's, it's a really long time.

I had a, um, I had a former NFL player who knows Aaron Donald tell me, and this is like a week ago, so we've had a sample size, that he thinks that it's, it's in part or large part a, a f- a pain management problem, right? Like NFL players are in massive amounts of pain after every single game, and their bodies recover, and they get used to the pain, and they play their whole lives, and they don't take a season or two off unless they're injured, and they just kind of get used to it.

And he explained, look, this guy retired, and whatever he did physically, he mentally, like, let go of that pain management, and mentally just didn't have to prepare himself for the way he would feel in games after games.

And, and this guy's theory, and again, he knows AD, and he hasn't asked him about it, but his theory is Aaron Donald was not, was not ready for the physical brutality of the game, sort of returning to that.

And once he gets sort of accustomed to that and his body gets accustomed, then we'll see to what degree he's 100% the guy that we saw a few years ago, 50%, 40%.

And so I think the, to answer like your origi- original question, like 19 minutes later, like a real radio host-

He does