Mike Mulligan

And I think the reason you maybe see it a little bit more now with guys retiring early versus we didn't see it as much a while ago is they're making a lot more money.

So a guy like Doug or some of these other guys who retired early,

In four or five years, they're making what NFL players 10, 15 years ago would have taken 20 years to make.

So it's a little bit easier decision when you've already feel like you've got yourself set up for life.

And at that point, you're just playing for the love of the game.

I think that cost benefit analysis changes a little bit when you're not doing it because you have to pay those bills like guys that were playing 20, 30 years ago had to consider.

Well, I think it's a huge loss because Drew was the center of that offensive line.

And when you've got a young quarterback who's learning a new system, like Caleb, who's coming into his own, had a really good year last season, that is the guy you lean on.

He is the translator between quarterback and the rest of the offensive linemen.

And so that position is something that the quarterback leans on, and that's something that the guards and the tackles lean on because –

Drew is that guy who translates Chinese that may be coming out of the quarterback's mouth to English that the offensive linemen are speaking.

When that defense moves and they shift from a four down to a three down, they drive safeties down.

They rock safeties back.

They change where those linebackers are.

There's constant communication that has to happen.

And it has to happen in a split second.

And so for Drew at center, he needs to know what Caleb is thinking.

He's in every single meeting with the quarterbacks when they're talking about protections.

They have their own meetings a couple of times a week so that they can get on the same page because a lot of times your quarterback is looking at the secondary and he's looking at the coverage.

And it's the center that's looking at the protection.