Phil Davis

Yeah, I would very quickly create a list of all the great players that did ACLs in the first six years of their career.

So you had Matthew Richardson's of the world, Taylor Walker's of the world.

There are a lot of great players that have done these early in their career and

Sam's the ultimate professional, but what a long-term injury does for you, Jared, it really sharpens your professionalism and your ability to know your body and develop your body.

I've said multiple times when I was at the Giants about first years, why don't we treat them like they've had an ACL and you put them in a full, robust 12-month program

because you learn incredible habits.

And Sam's already got good habits.

I think he'll go to another level.

He'll be stronger.

The other thing that I thought was fascinating about the injury was you can tell by the reaction of A, Deceuninck and those around him, that this was bigger than just that game.

And we all know how important Sam is to the competition now, which is, I think Sam can hopefully bottle that, get to work.

And I think we can expect to see great things.

Yeah, I think this is what can happen, Jared.

I think we all think improvement is linear.

There's no such thing as linear improvement.

Melbourne are debunking that.

We thought linear backwards for Melbourne, if not a sudden drop.

Richmond are just not... They're fine.

They're on a journey, but they're in this spiral where, you know, last year had so many, you know, sprouts.

I think... Is that a Ross Lyon quote?