Brett Veach

And I think our biggest challenge is, you know, we have to do a good job of protecting him against himself because I think he wants to, we have 110 rookies out here getting ready to try out this weekend.

And, you know,

If we told Patty he can go out there and throw to him, he would.

Excited for him.

As you could imagine, he's crushing this rehab, so it should be a lot of fun.

Like I said, hopefully we have a little running game to go with this and now some defensive help, and hopefully we get right back to where we need to be.

Yeah.

Yeah, he'll stop running people over.

Well, yeah, I mean, certainly I can't comment on the future after this year, but I will say there was a lot of speculation mid-November, early December about Travis retiring, but we played our last game of the season in Vegas last year, and when we got back, we had player meetings and exit interviews, and it was a cool deal where Trav came in and he basically said, like,

I'm going to take a few weeks off here, but I'm not going out like this.

And let's stay in touch and let's figure something out.

And then like 10 minutes later, Andy called me.

He's like, hey, did you talk to Travis?

And I said, yeah.

And he's like, yeah, he's coming back.

So we certainly knew ahead of time.

And while, you know, free agency was going on and there were still some

um questions in the air on whether or not he returned we knew basically the day after our last game that um i mean he made it known to coach reed and and and to me that there was no way he was going out like this and i think there's an element too of how close him and pat are that i think travis wants to be there um with pat for this rehab deal i mean you know you go to training camp those are

Those are long days, and we're still one of the few teams that leaves, and we go away for about a month.

And I think there's that certain element that, you know, Travis wants to make sure Pat sees this rehab all the way through, and they're ready to go week one.