Darren Waller

almost tear my like hip flexor from my quad or my feet.

Or 32, right?

Yeah, so it's like missing the entirety of training camp.

And then I think it was the first three games.

And then coming up to the Jets game, I think I had like,

three practices and so i'm like going into the game like i have no idea how this is gonna go i you know we're just gonna see like in those practices i was like effective and it was like okay this is like riding a bike in a way now that my body's gonna be effective when you're 60 you're really good physically talented tight end it's impossible to cover you

Right.

And so I go out into even like the pregame warmups of the Jets games like that.

I'm like, yeah, I have no idea how this is going to go.

Like, I'm really about to get I was laying in my bed in the gap between like the morning meetings and like going to the stadium.

I'm like, this is really happening today.

This is really about to go down.

And then going into the game and having the game go the way that it went was just like.

Um, well, I mean, I would say there was darkness early on after like right around my retirement and the divorce and everything, but,

things really started to change me.

Like, I was really enjoying my life and the growth that I was seeing just in, like, how I relate to myself and other people.

I was seeing a lot of growth in that to the point where it was like, yeah, like, I was like, oh, man, I really, like, this is something that I feel like I need to do to kind of heal that relationship to football.

But I was, like...

on the verge of thriving in my life before that.

And so it's just like, yeah, it was a shock throwing myself back into.