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#696: Taking the Last Clot Shot (Clip) · Macroaggressions

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  So, let's talk about Jalen Hurd.
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  So, all these guys are probed and prodded and put through the ringer in terms of the testing
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  that's done on them, the testing every year.
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  They have to get tested every year.
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  Jalen Hurd's been on with the team for seven years, but he's going to run through, have
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  a physical every year, in part because they have to ensure him, okay?
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  This is the part that I found very unusual about DeMar Hanlon coming back for the
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  Buffalo Bills.
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  When he went down with that heart attack on the field, my statement at the time,
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  it turns out to be wrong, I cannot believe it's wrong though, was that he'll never
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  play again because he'll never get insured.
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  And he's playing.
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  He's playing with the Buffleys.
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  He's, you know, backup safety.
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  He's not the star of the show or anything like that, but he's out there.
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  And he's playing.
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  And in order to be on the field, he has to be insured.
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  So somebody insured him and that had always been my, my sort of, you know,
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  people like, well, has he heard?
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  Is he this?
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  Is that right?
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  I don't know that it's going to matter whether it is his heart back,
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  is his heart up and running?
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  Is it good?
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  Is it that, you know, they have a spot for him and, you know,
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  they want to replace him with a different safety or something like that.
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  Like my, my feeling was it's not going to be that it's going to be up to an
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  insurer who's going to say, I can't insure this guy.
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  If this guy drops dead on the field, we're going to get,
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  we're going to be in huge trouble.
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  We're going to pay a ton of money out for this guy.
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  Because of course he had a pre-existing condition.
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  We all watched him have a heart attack and then he went back out there.
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  The team's going to get sued.
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  The, the, the insurance company is going to get, everybody's going to get sued.
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  If that guy dies on the field.
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  So I was thinking there's no way he's ever going to be back.
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  Well, he's out there.
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  I was wrong.
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  You know, okay.
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  But, you know, Jalen Hertz was ruled out for the season.
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  This is a, this is not a blood clot.
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  Oh, he's got a blood clot in his leg.
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  I'll give you the timeline of events and everything that happened.
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  So there's 17 games in the season after six games, he's out.
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  And Jalen Hertz is on a five year, $265 million deal.
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  So you're going to be paying him roughly $55 million this year.
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  And you're not going to get much out of him.
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  So he took a cleat to the calf in a game on October 4th against the Rams.
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  Okay.
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  Not great, but happens all the time, right?
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  Some, some, somebody stepped on his calf and a few days later,
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  he informs the medical staff after practice that he's got some discomfort.
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  This is Thursday, October 8th.
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  So the, the, he gets stepped on on Sunday, the 4th,
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  a couple of days later on Thursday at practice after practice,
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  he says to the team, I, you know, this, I don't feel,
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  my calf is, there's something wrong with it, right?
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  So they, they say, okay, we'll take a look at it.
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  The next day he practices with the team.
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  This is Friday, the 9th.
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  He practices with the team and then they leave for London.
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  They had a, for those of you who aren't familiar with the NFL,
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  it's mostly just American lately.
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  They have been adding these international games
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  and the game that Jalen Hertz and the Eagles
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  was going to play was in London.
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  And, and so Philly to London, that's of what it's like a five hour flight.
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  It's not bad.
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  So they, they practice on Friday,
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  then they leave for London that afternoon.
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  Next day, Saturday, October 10th, the day before the game,
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  he has an ultrasound in London that shows superficial blood clot.
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  Now the term superficial sound don't misinterpret that as like means nothing.
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  It does, it's not that it means nothing.
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  It's just, it's, it's a medical term.
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  So a superficial blood clot and,
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  and they take a look at him and they say,
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  well, what are we going to do?
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  And they say, well, with blood clots, you know,
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  we have to be like very meticulous about this.
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  There's certain things that you need to do.
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  In fact, sleeping is really bad.
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  If you have a blood clot and now you've just gotten on a plane
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  for five hours, which is a huge no-no.
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  And now you're, you're in London
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  and you've, we've just done an ultrasound.
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  We've determined that you've got this blood clot.
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  You actually can't sleep right now.
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  And he's like, okay, what does that mean?
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  And they say, well, basically,
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  you're not going to be able to go to sleep tonight Saturday night.
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  You're going to need to pull an all-nighter in London.
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  You're already going to be out of whack on the time change.
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  You're going to need to pull an all-nighter Saturday,
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  can't sleep, and then play the game Sunday
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  after being up for 36 hours straight.
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  Because you cannot sleep.
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  So he did, to his credit, Jalen Hertz,
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  who is a fucking baller, will get out there and, you know,
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  I mean, he'd get out there and do that.
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  And he did that.
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  Coach's son, never going to quit, you know, real dude.
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  The, the doctors concluded that the act, they stated this.
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  Doctors, quote, concluded that activity and mobility were important
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  and that Jalen could safely play.
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  They made that call on Saturday.
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  They said, he can safely play.
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  He's gonna, but we're going to need him to pull an all-nighter,
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  which is not great.
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  An all-nighter before a football game sounds like hell to me.
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  It sounds like a bad idea in general.
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  Add blood clots, add calf strains,
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  add all that, it can't be good.
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  So he plays in London on October the 11th, right,
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  after not sleeping.
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  They don't tell anybody that, obviously.
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  It's a strategic competitive advantage.
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  You're not gonna tell the other team
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  that the quarterback hasn't slept
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  or else they'll take advantage of that, right?
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  So they return to Philadelphia.
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  He gets a second ultrasound showing movement of the clot.
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  This is now, he plays on Sunday, October 11th.
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  They fly back to Philly on Wednesday, October 14th.
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  So just a couple of days after that game,
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  they do a second ultrasound
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  and they showed that the clot has moved,
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  which is a really bad thing.
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  So he sits out the game Sunday, October 18th.
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  They bring in a backup quarterback.
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  They announced that the clot has spread to his lungs
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  and that blood thinners will prevent him
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  from contact sports while he is taking them.
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  And they announced that his season was over,
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  effective immediately.
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  And my question is, is his career over?
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  And I think that is a very reasonable question to ask
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  because you haven't fixed the problem.
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  The problem that's causing blood clots
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  is that these players got them from the shots.
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  And when you turn on the spike protein manufacturing facility
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  inside the body, there's no off switch.
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  So whether you stroke out from a COVID shot
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  15 minutes after you took it
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  or 15 years after you took it,
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  the mechanism is turning on and has no switch to shut it off.
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  Hey, thanks for watching that clip.
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  wherever podcasters serve.
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  Thanks a lot.