If a guy is hurt, you take care of him. The Falcons didn't do that.
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People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do.
As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.
My advice to the next quarterback that misses an entire year is to understand there is a little difference going out on the road again. You miss that. When you're hurt, you do not feel like you are part of it.
There's a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.
We all know that the NFL is the best of the best, and there's great competition across the board, so any time you're hurt or something like that, and another guy gets his opportunity, he's going to try to make the most of it.
You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.
Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.
Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.
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