Chris Long

I'm a fan.

And I also don't know what it's like to be out there that night and feel like, hey, I tried my very fucking best, but those guys were just better.

And so I think as a player, you get sometimes as mad as you are, as upset as you are about the game, and as much as it hurts to lose sometimes,

You comfort yourself subconsciously because you're like, dude, I laid it all out there.

These guys get paid, too, and they were just so good today.

Dude, recently, I looked back at that 2018 loss to New Orleans, and it's so funny because it doesn't haunt me.

You know, this is the year we were repeating or trying to repeat, and we started four and six, and we were terrible, and then all of a sudden we caught fire again, and we end up in the divisional round down in New Orleans.

We jump out to a 14-0 lead.

The way I remember that game is it was heartbreaking at the time, but in the years after, I kind of forgot about it.

It doesn't haunt me.

Yeah, and I don't like the whole, because I didn't like it when the Saints the year before were like, we would have beat the Eagles if the Minneapolis made it.

No, the fuck you wouldn't.

We were a badass group, and it would have been hard to beat us.

And so I'm not doing the, oh, we should have won it or anything.

But what I am saying is when I look back at that game on YouTube, I watched the full game for shits recently.

It was so painful to watch.

It was almost more painful than it was to play in it.

Wow.

Because you have this vantage point where it's like, damn, dude.

Like, it was 14-0.