Darren Waller

How am I elevating the environment that I'm in is how I try to measure my value now.

And I feel like I've been able to connect to that.

Whereas before I never even thought,

it just sounded so fucking cheesy to me before.

It's like, nah, I need these yards and these numbers or I fucking suck.

And, and now it's like, I sit here with whatever my statistical output was from the season.

I have no idea what it was, but it's like,

I feel proud of that.

Like from what my circumstances were coming back into the game and what I was able to.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm definitely, yeah, that's definitely a lot of what I've been thinking.

Like throughout the season, there was kind of like, I could feel myself drifting back and forth between like,

I feel like I could do this for however long.

And then it's like, you know, the injuries and frustrations are like, I can't keep doing this to myself and floating back and forth.

So now is like the time that I have to sit with both parts.

kind of have like a board of directors meeting with, with both parts of me and, uh, and be like, okay, like what, what are, what are we doing here?

Like, let's look at the pros and cons of each of these directions.

And, uh, and we can make a decision from there, but playing football again and starting to lay the foundation, going somewhere, investing in my training, um, with professionals that can direct my performance and have me be able to

take on that load is something that I'm considering.

But, yeah, this is a time for me to kind of reflect on that.