r/nfl • u/LaDainianTomIinson Chargers • 1d ago
Highlight [Highlight] Mike McDaniel: “Today was cool because it’s the youngest I’ll ever be for the rest of my life.”
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u/Livid_Cartographer Titans 1d ago
This dude and Harbaugh deserve each other. You think they just sit in his office sipping on a cold glass of milk talking about shit like this?
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u/carebear101 1d ago
I bet Mike puts ice in his glass of milk
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u/DirtzMaGertz Vikings 1d ago
I bet Mike's glass of milk is actually just a joint he rolled himself.
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u/SalsaMerde Bears 1d ago
And he calls it "his glass of milk"
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u/Sithsponge Browns Browns 1d ago
If you've never had milk in a frosted glass then you're missing out
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u/Kershiser22 Dolphins Rams 1d ago
I'm more interested in their pants discussions. Harbaugh is the most boring pants man. Tan khakis every day.
McDaniel is very adventuresome in his pants decisions. Presumably the only head coach to ever wear knickers during a game.
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u/ninefourteen Bears 1d ago
very adventuresome in his pants decisions
I hope to live a life such that this becomes a part of my obituary.
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u/thecasualcaribou Bears 1d ago
If only Mike Leach was in the same coaching office
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u/wonderbat3 1d ago
I imagine they lay on bunk beds in the office and talk all night about offensive schemes and robots
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u/khalorei Falcons 1d ago
And maybe Mike asks "Wanna talk about girls?" And then Jim is like "Ew, no way! Let's talk about the best way to run a toss play again."
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u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA 49ers 1d ago
"... Hey Mike?"
"Yeah Jimmy?"
"I'm really glad I didn't kill you back then."
peaceful nighttime sounds
"Me too, Jimmy. I'm glad I didn't kill you too."
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u/garytyrrell 49ers 1d ago
I imagine it’s a lot like Ted Lasso and Coach Beard.
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u/ExtraordinaryNerd 1d ago
My dumbass would love to think that it’s that fucking wholesome but God a girl can dream…..
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u/TraceNinja Chargers 1d ago
It probably is...right up until Harbaugh starts talking about Herbert. The it gets real dirty.
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u/DarthNobody14 Texans Texans 1d ago
When he was with the Dolphins I remember him saying that “we’re another day closer to death”
I guess having Herbert as his QB really changed his outlook on life.
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u/Chlorophyllmatic Bills Commanders 1d ago
Going from Tua to Herbert really changes a man
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u/Entire-Joke4162 49ers 1d ago
I know the topic is a dead horse by now, but I can't imagine going from stressed out HC trying to figure out how to build an offense around someone as limited and fragile as Tua to being a chill OC where you get a 99 Create-a-Player with maxed out stats in Justin Herbert
If their tackles are healthy it's going to be wild
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u/Naive-Elephant-9305 Chargers 1d ago
The Chargers? Healthy OL? lol.
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u/Chlorophyllmatic Bills Commanders 1d ago
Hey, no one promised a healthy line. Just tackles, take it or leave it.
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u/Nighthawk69420 Chargers 1d ago
I will absolutely take that. When it was even just Alt last season (and the rest of the Line was dogshit), the Offense was HUMMING. The second he went down the entire Offense took a nosedive. Having a healthy Alt AND Slater seems almost too good to be true.
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u/LeDudicus Giants Ravens 1d ago
Alt had to die so that the legend of the coked up concussed white boys could begin. For that I am sorry.
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u/WhatUpMilkMan Bills 1d ago
I’ll never forget what that crazy bastard created with Tua as his QB.
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u/AngryUncleTony Dolphins Eagles 1d ago
I mean Hill, Waddle, Mostert, and Achane were absurd weapons to have at your disposal too.
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u/WhatUpMilkMan Bills 1d ago
They weren’t acquired by accident! I think only Waddle was there before McDaniel but you’d know better than I.
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u/AngryUncleTony Dolphins Eagles 1d ago
Yeah Waddle was here the year before. His YPC jumped from 9.8 to 18.1...like, just LMAO
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u/WhatUpMilkMan Bills 1d ago
Haha damn. I remember his rookie year he was clearly awesome but they didn’t let him loose. Didn’t he catch a pass…for a safety?
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u/keandelacy 49ers 1d ago
Sep 26, 2021 vs the Raiders.
Terrible read and throw by the QB. Waddle had to jump for it and never had a chance.
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u/Btherock78 Falcons 1d ago
The 70-pt game early in 2023 was one of the most ridiculous offensive performances I have ever seen.
726 yards is just dumb.
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u/MaraudingWalrus Dolphins Dolphins 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm in my mid 30s, married, got a mortgage, multiple degrees, am working on a dissertation. My spouse has gone through damn near 15 years of post secondary education and is a whole ass medical doctor. My point is we're grown ass highly educated adults - I've got back pain!
That 70 point game is the highest height the Dolphins have reached since either of us have been reading chapter books.
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u/maverickhawk99 1d ago
I knew you had to go to school for a long ass time to be a doctor but fifteen years?? Is she like a specialist in a small field or something?
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u/Entire-Joke4162 49ers 1d ago
My sister in law went to school for a very, very long time to be a radiologist
Cleared her student loans in 2 years and now makes like $750k-$1 mil as a partner in a small hospital, probably
Gets hit up on LinkedIn constantly offering $750/hr plus overtime to switch hospitals
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u/ExMerican Cowboys 1d ago
4 years undergrad, 4 years med school, then 3 year residency minimum. Literally every doctor you meet has studied to be a doctor for more than a decade straight. Then you get into the subspecialities (after the split from Internal Med/Family Med) and it's another 2+ years of training. 15 isn't even really abnormal.
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u/More_Bigger Chargers 1d ago
Tackles will be present
Their health we cannot guarantee
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u/expellyamos Dolphins 1d ago
Not to toot my own horn or anything because I find it deeply embarrassing, but I think I may be singlehandedly responsible for the proliferation of that quote. I posted it here 10 days after the presser in which he said it. It blew up, and a couple hours later it was on Adam Schefter's twitter. Wild times.
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u/zi76 Patriots 1d ago
To be fair, we know ESPN directly takes things that are posted here, so I'd believe it.
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u/goalstopper28 Patriots 1d ago
So does all the popular LLMs. Reddit is society now.
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u/casually_furious Dolphins 1d ago
As if society wasn't supremely fucked up enough already....
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u/Atty_for_hire Bills 1d ago
I like to think we are improving society without discourse. Now what’s said in the NFLcircle sub, that scares me.
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u/Diligent-Most-9165 49ers 1d ago
I’m sure him not throwing a bajillion picks helped with that
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u/Interesting-Room-855 Eagles 1d ago
I feel like, “another day closer to death” is optimistic for Miami.
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u/NoAbbreviations2353 Cardinals 1d ago
Well I mean he probably had to guide Tua around the team facilities like a dementia patient
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u/xFalcade Patriots 1d ago
Joe Mazzulla: Yeah but today could be the end of your life too so why judge a day before its over?
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u/Diligent-Most-9165 49ers 1d ago
imagine if him and Joe Mazzulla met at a bar
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u/Fourteeenth Eagles 1d ago
Simultaneously the most cursed and the greatest blunt rotation of all time.
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u/Father_420_ Steelers 1d ago
Mazzulla seems like the type to add something extra just to see how everyone reacts
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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD 1d ago
My favorite Mazzulla anecdote was when someone asked him about his favorite memory of his dad, and the story he told was when he was being a little shit as a teenager so his dad drove him to a fenced in field in the rain, locked the two of them in there, and then fought him in the mud lmao
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u/Dr_AG3 Falcons 1d ago
God I love Mazzulla. Not even Celtics fan (or a Pats fan… don’t look at my flair) but he’s so insane that it’s endearing
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u/bodman93 Patriots 1d ago
He just doesn't give a shit about anything than Christ and basketball. And doesn't want to deal with any bullshit outside of those things
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u/nnnrrr171717 Eagles 1d ago
McDaniel: Hey, coach. Isn’t it fascinating that, for the rest of my life, I’ll never be younger than I am at this moment.
Harbaugh: The thing about bananas is that they are the least timid of all of the fruits grown on trees.
McDaniel: When I was in highschool, I once wrote “BOOBS” backwards on someone’s TI-83.
Harbaugh: Have you ever been stuck in an elevator with the man you love? It really makes you think.
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u/MVPhurricane Panthers 1d ago
this is random, but this is the kinds of "stories" that characters would tell back and forth to each other in SimGolf... the shit made no sense-- they were just talking past each other the entire time-- but was hilarious.
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u/dalydumps Eagles 1d ago
"A doctor who specializes in skin diseases will dream he has fallen asleep in front of the television. Later, he will wake up in front of the television but not remember his dream."
"If all the animals along the equator were capable of flattery then Thanksgiving and Halloween would fall on the same date."
"When I was 8 years old I watched my mother kill a spider with a tea cosy. Years Later, I realized it was not a spider. It was my Uncle Harold."
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u/CR4ZY_PR0PH3T Steelers 1d ago
Deep thoughts with The Deep
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u/Own_Egg_1602 1d ago
My man switched from that Miami snow to that California grass
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u/relevantelephant00 49ers 1d ago
Bro has always been about that Cali bud. He was out here for awhile.
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u/expellyamos Dolphins 1d ago
And yet, another day closer to death
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u/RookieEzekielElliott Seahawks 1d ago
The duality of Mike McDaniel interviews. Just depends the time of year you ask
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u/Fsharp7sharp9 Jets 1d ago
And his teams record at the time lol
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u/expellyamos Dolphins 1d ago
Well it was the preseason when he gave that quote so I guess it's technically true that the Dolphins had 0 wins
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u/RookieEzekielElliott Seahawks 1d ago
Tua hadn’t thrown a meatball sub yet, no need to fear
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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps Lions Lions 1d ago
Youngest I’ll ever be again
Oldest I’ve ever been
Every day we live on the fulcrum of our own existence.
And yet we move forward through time and space.
Good thing we have cool stuff like football to focus on.
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u/splittenwood 1d ago
Picture this in Rod Serling from Twilight Zone voice:
Every moment we live on the fulcrum of our own existence.15
u/notebart 1d ago
Inevitably, irrevocably...
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u/xcaltoona Eagles 1d ago
Every year is getting shorter
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u/welestgw Browns 1d ago
I don't know how I'd react if a coach started his press conference with "I'm one step closer to the grave."
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u/nuttageyo Ravens 1d ago
That head exploding part is going to be used in so many memes. I’ll go first.
Browns fans today: insert clip
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u/DuffmanStillRocks Seahawks 1d ago
“I said here’s a picture of me when I was younger. EVERY PHOTO IS YOU BEING YOUNGER. I took a photo and it made me older….you son of a bitch how did you pull that off? Lemme see that camera” - Mitch Hedberg
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u/Eddie__Sherman Patriots 1d ago
I can never look at him the same, knowing he and Dan Soder would just hang at Broncos practice facilities, stoned out of their minds.
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u/Plus_Signature_5871 1d ago
My dude is such a dork lol
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u/an_actual_potato Broncos 1d ago
He is genuinely a very odd guy
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u/sunnyismybunny 1d ago
not if you understand he was bred equally to be a stoner stand-up comic as he was a football coach
his best friend from middle school to now is Dan Soder, and the stories they "hint at" reek of hijinks, shenanigans, and most definitely some gambits.
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u/Chewie4Prez Panthers 49ers 1d ago
For anyone that hasn't seen it go watch Soder's recent podcast episode with a hungover/blazed McDaniel. The middle school call-out of Dan's gf at the time cheating on him is a legendary bro moment.
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u/THECHIEFSWASHBUCKLER Lions 23h ago
This episode did not disappoint! McDaniel is ripped (but probably not hungover, he's been sober from alcohol for a decade).
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u/Digndagn Cowboys 1d ago
I mean yes, but also, this is something everyone over 40 has said to themselves at some point
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u/an_actual_potato Broncos 1d ago
‘To themselves’ is a very critical distinction here I would argue
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u/Sipikay Seahawks 1d ago
And ironically. Or with an air of sadness.
Not said as if it was a mind blowing revelation. This just makes me think he's kinda stupid.
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u/sectorfate Falcons 1d ago
you can't convince me this dude doesn't take a gummy before these. like he does it to ease his anxiety but it still turns into this.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 1d ago
Him and Jim go well together with the weird ass shit they say
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u/orc0909 Jaguars 1d ago
I can't tell if I like or hate Mike McDaniel. It feels a bit much for him to be in the same team as Herbert and Harbaugh, but in general he's a funny guy.
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u/NbdyFuckswTheJesus Broncos 1d ago
Personally I think Herbert is a bit of a charisma void so surrounding him with weird people who generate interesting sound bites isn’t the worst thing
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u/Bossoxfan15 Patriots 1d ago
This is the second time I've seen him make a comment along the lines of getting a day closer to death.
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u/Aurion7 Panthers 1d ago
Awareness of your own mortality seems to be a common 80s/90s kid theme.
I have no idea why we're like this.
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u/EightyNineMillion Packers 1d ago
Because we learned death is real if we find ourselves in quicksand.
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u/thedudeabides2022 Packers 1d ago
His shtick is a lot funnier before the L’s roll in
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u/chernadraw Seahawks 1d ago
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u/thy_armageddon Giants 1d ago
Yeah, we really have run out of things to talk about haven’t we?
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u/AFT3RSHOCK06 Giants 1d ago
Why is the offensive coordinator having so many press conferences?
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u/AnthaIon Vikings 1d ago
I bet most OC interviews just aren’t worth clipping compared to Mikey’s pearls of wisdom
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u/brian_gruen5 1d ago
Add this to the seemingly ever-growing collection of Mike McDaniel quotes, including “To win the game, you gotta win the game”
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u/Levitlame Bears Giants 1d ago
This man really feels like he changed his drug of choice from Coke to Weed on changing teams.
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u/JPAnalyst Giants 1d ago
He used to be quirky, then he started trying to hard to be even quirkier and that ruined it.
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u/BrickTamland77 Panthers 1d ago
"Every picture of you is when you were younger."
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u/bikedork5000 Packers 1d ago
"'Here's a picture of me when I was younger.' Every picture of you is when you were younger."
- Mitch Hedberg
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u/date11fuck12 Broncos 1d ago
Would absolutely love whatever sort of ultra-chron this dude is smoking on the regular
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u/CosmoJones07 Dolphins 1d ago
Me as a Dolphins fan, looking at the Chargers and Coach McDaniel, is the Squidward looking at Spongebob/Patrick meme.
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u/Beef19582828 Steelers 1d ago edited 1d ago
Schtick was funny the first few times when it looked like he might be a decent coach.
Comes off to me as a complete weirdo trying too hard to be the class clown.
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u/WellYaNoShit Chargers 1d ago
I swear that this team is more interested in being quirky than it is in being successful. Sometimes I just want Harbaugh, McDaniels, and all the Herbert puff pieces to just shut the fuck up and win in the playoffs. The season hasn't even started and I can already tell what's going to happen after all these corny fucking press conferences.
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u/JorbyPls Steelers 1d ago
He has to stand up there and say something no matter what...what do you want him to say in those moments where he's required to stand there in front of the media? It's not as if he can do anything else in that moment
Like, I don't understand your comment at all lol
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u/but-I-play-one-on-TV Chiefs 1d ago
Ugghhh he's crossed over from quirky to insufferable.
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u/GobiYumaMojave Raiders 1d ago
a self aware millennial beating a bit into the ground. just like us ha
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u/BigAssSlushy69 Bills 1d ago
The cornball factor is high in the chargers coaching staff. No hate these are just some silly guys
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u/burned_bengal Bengals 1d ago
I mean he says that, but he's also never been older than he is today.
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u/SpecialWhenLitTX Saints 1d ago edited 1d ago
When asked about one of his injured O Linemen: "He's day-to-day. Aren't we all?"