00:00When he goes into that final month with games against Buffalo, Baltimore, New York Jets, and Dolphins,
00:07if he has a great month in the final month.
00:08And who's he going to be covering in that month?
00:10Like, look at that.
00:10Like, there's Tyree Kill, there's Garrett Wilson, there's Zay Flowers.
00:14Like, he could have some big-time matchups in there.
00:17And he shuts them all down in the final month, in the final four games.
00:21And you pay them.
00:22He gets paid.
00:23He gets paid.
00:24And the recency bias matters.
00:25I mean, I just think, in his defense, like, it would be dumb of him not to think about that.
00:31Oh, I don't blame him one bit.
00:32Yeah.
00:33If he's got a good agent, his agent's saying, hey, you don't need to be back out there until you are right and you are healthy.
00:42And I imagine there's some push and pull going on there because I can't imagine Mike Rable.
00:47Because if he has a bad injury, like, the flip side of this, right?
00:52Do you think the team is going to have a ton of sympathy for him?
00:56None.
00:56They'll have none for him.
00:57You're playing next year on the rookie contract, bud.
00:59Yes.
01:00You know what I mean?
01:01Yeah.
01:01So that's the flip side of it.
01:02The team's protection is they can't do anything until the end of the year.
01:06So you know what?
01:06Like, I've got to protect myself, too.
01:08This is the league.
01:08This is the setup.
01:09And so these are the rules that they play within.
01:12If he's got a good agent, the agent's like, do not go out there until you are fully healthy.
01:16Make sure you protect yourself because they're not protecting you.
01:19And I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing if Mike Rable is right now annoyed with the player, wanting him back out there.
01:26Mike Rable's priorities are winning football games right now, as many as he could possibly win.
01:32And he knows he has a higher probability of doing that with this player on the field.
01:37This is the NFL, though.
01:37It is the NFL.
01:39This is how it plays out.
01:41Yep.
01:41This is what it is.
01:43And we've seen it before.
01:45Rable hates these soft tissue things.
01:45I mean, like, look, like Sauce Gardner last year, part of the whole deal with him was, like, is he playing careful?
01:52Is he protecting himself?
01:53But you know what?
01:54He made it through the year healthy, and he got paid.
01:56And he didn't even play well.
01:57He didn't even play well.
01:58He didn't play well, and he got paid just because he made it to the end.
02:01Right.
