Vince Wilfork

He's like, I know both of your parents.

I know your daddy very well.

I know exactly what he wants you to do.

He said, I'm not telling you what to do, but just do what they want you to do.

And I wasn't trying to hear, just lost, you know, I'm 21 years old, just lost two parents within six months from one another.

I don't want to hear that mess.

You know, and once the desk kind of settled and everybody was gone, you know, I really took some time out and really think about it, you know.

And I called, you know, I called the team and say, hey, I'll meet you guys out in Arizona for the bowl game.

And I think I got there.

I don't know, a Tuesday.

I can't remember.

It was such a fog.

But I got there kind of late, you know, and I just remember Andrew Swayze, our conditioning coach, he was just running me just to get me back going, just to shake me like, hey, condition, condition, you missed a lot of practice.

Be like, you want to play?

We have to condition.

We have to condition.

And I always hated condition.

But in that moment, I didn't care.

You know, it was just I was a zombie.

But all I knew was football, you know, and I went out and I played that game and I really don't remember it.