uh the guardian cap has lost a home on one player's head right we mentioned it I think it's been a couple weeks now achan running back for the Miami Dolphins had a guardian cap for a while to start season obviously big smart he took it off he was asked about it here's his answer we went know the season man it just I mean I I wear it to begin cuz you know was my mom but I just feel like you know I didn't need no more I got a better helmet so I just feel I
didn't need to wear any more oh so did you change your helmet mhm okay what what what was it then what was it now or what is it now um it's it's like the same just like I got more cushion inside okay I love that he said cuz of my mom mhm okay you know my mom's saying hey we could save the brain why are we choosing not to do that and obviously mom still being around still being that powerful is a great thing uh so we have nothing but respect for that but it does
feel like whenever we were told that there's a helmet that is equal to a helmet and a guardian cap the way it has been built we wondered if the guardian cap was going to survive it has for a couple people but this is good for the evolution of these helmets AJ I think you know I think it's good for the evolution of this whole thing well just think of the evolutions have you ever seen like I know guys that bring me and show me their helmet from Ohio State 1968 like from where we've come now
from back then it's a different world what those guys were wearing so yeah of course it's always going to evolve and get better and better but I don't know what's like the ceiling what what's the final greatest helmet because they get crazier and crazier looking with different weird things and grown out of the forehead now I feel like I think that's the one that's the guardian cap situation the one where it's real heavy in the front and I think it has a heavy pad in the back as well yeah and the position specific helmets they
talked about how you might see a quarterback with a helmet that literally just goes like this because a lot of the concussions that come from quarterbacks when they get tackled and then their heads hit the ground like that so if we add a little bit of a buffer zone there cushion that could potentially help the impact on the head but then I think the question always goes back to like are some head's more likely to get concussed than others yes yes I I don't that's my opinion but I absolutely believe that and can you test
for that so should we be working on also the testing to figure out whose heads are more likely to get concussed than others for instance this guy you could see it through your screen every day that is a blockhead okay that right there what you're seeing right there you see the jawline you see the you see the chin you see that that thing probably has thick skull this is probably a thick skull if you're just look at it you probably think to yourself this guy Well turns out zero documented concussions played in the CTE era
like at middle linebacker full that is this is literally but his head we would assume has a little thicker skull than others just by looking at it AJ no offense no that's a great coment thank you very much and also saying to somebody you have a massive head is a compliment from people who have massive heads that's like one of the first things so I think if we could figure out the testing for who is more likely to get concussions than people that aren't I don't know how you do that science figure it out I
think that it with the evolution of the helmets I think now we're on to a true like beneficial future as opposed to just like well this helmet's going to work and then play a whole season it's like well it turns out that helmet did not work as much as we thought it was going to work well for who though like for everybody or for some people you know it's a it's a never ending one of these and I believe brain trauma being terrible for humans some sports have them though boxing mixed martial arts combat sports
physical Sports violent sports hockey a study just came out but that's also like a part of sport so if we can figure out how to make it better I think we're all on board but we're also on the same page of like never going to be able to remove it completely no way like that is just a that's a that's a that's a very stupid goal I think that'll never be accomplished and I don't think that should be the expectations but I like that we're working to get better on it well and to what you
guys are saying like head size should be thing like I don't care if you got added to the combine like we talk about cam hayward's head all the time on here he definitely has a lower percentage chance of getting concussion versus a tua just because of strictly head size and I don't know tua's head size is do I don't know either but I know that on the scale of normal head to cam Hayward he is not at the cam Hayward be head weight should be head weight cuz then that would imply more bone structure than
uh brain structure right in there because you don't think somebody's looked at that and and we're sitting here saying okay it's the head size and the weight we're just spitballing all right I don't I me leg well you're just throwing out stuff con man like you should see what the see you know what I played in I'm look in your head right now yeah don't want to say it and you know the helmet AJ nobody's ever said you have a big head right nobody has ever I don't have a big head okay great concur you
auss a peanut head but that helmet like yeah moms back in the day didn't give an f cuz they let us all play thank you for doing that and we had a ride ride L and it had rope in it with a dut it it was called a suspension helmet anybody have one of those uncomfortable yeah can you imagine hey here you go go those and we were yeah head down straight are you trying to go back to that Chuck no sir and then we went to the bike helmet and had the pads in there
and then you get in cold weather and they froze on you oh yeah and that felt good getting the helmet on and off I will say AJ you played a lot more football than me obviously grew up in it putting the helmet on and off in cold always sucks right there's not like a time you no matter what that's why I'd go out to uh initial warm-ups in Green Bay we'd be out there 12 minutes or whatever it is I would go directly to sauna and put my helmet in there to warm up before he
went out and ran out the tunnel so cuz every time I'd be putting my helmet on it would hurt so bad and be so uncomfortable but I couldn't show it you know cuz I'm punter can't you bruise your ears I bruise my ears and stuff when you're putting a cold one on and off and I got a big I got a rather large Dome so like putting that thing on got to do the pull got to do the pull out but never going to be able to pull out enough and then the head is going
to get and then the ears are getting bent down I feel like I'm getting cauliflower here and then all right punt period down I'm like I can't [ __ ] because I don't got to actually hit anybody but this sucks if we could if we could figure out how to put this [ __ ] thing on a little bit better that would be fantastic I think what he was talking about though is he said there's more padding on the inside of the helmet I think it's probably one of those bigger ones I wonder if they're
more comfortable to put on inside think so what do you think probably they got to be they got to be much more comfortable I would think you would hope those things used to be cuz we had that like plastic rubberish with the bladder inside the ones now if you look inside it looks like like soft padd there was a guy that had styrofoam I think he was pitching styrofoam really there was some sort of Styrofoam race like racing helmet it was here in Indie like it was when you were the coach the uh had a
new idea New Concept and this this guy was uh Simpson maybe in the race R in community if we were to look up like uh racing suits or racing helmets the last name Simpson I think um he came up he was big Colts fan came up with a new helmet idea concept and I guess he was a fan of mine uh from my stuff and I didn't have to use it as much so he pitched me the helmet to wear it what's his name Bill Simpson yeah tackles football concussions with new helmet and they were
using like some race stuff those things are sweet with football stuff they kind of pieced it together and uh I wore it for a while I don't know if I was supposed to if it was like okay or not super light didn't feel like offseason or you wore it for game game I put that [ __ ] on in a game yeah come on did he get licensed through the league or anything how that I don't think so no they do they did it up and yeah I think so yeah I think it just sweet
I don't remember how it came about N I might have been practicing the offseason did you ever hit anybody with it or you ever run your head into the wall and check it out I remember thinking I shouldn't you know whatever it was on my head I remember thinking that but oh really you didn't feel comfortable but sometimes like those I remember the lighter ones though sometimes the lighters like better like they got carbon fiber like this guy's a racing helmet guy I assume he did have some sort of breakthrough but I I didn't remember
my brain comprehending how this was going to be good I if I do recall I think it was OTAs I don't think I hit anybody I don't think it was during the game because to get through the game they would had to go through the whole they would had to get marked up get okay get approved to get out there so there's no way it was that but yeah I put that helmet on it was like super light and I was like I don't know it protect me is it comfortable I'm like yeah yeah it's
not pretty too comfortable almost I almost feel like this is a a little bit of a hat but there's been people trying to perfect the helmet for a long time and I think it's because of obviously their genuine care of athlete and Sport and competition but the amount of money if you were to figure out the helmet could be forever and all these companies know that age all of them it sounds like anan's got a company that has been able to kind of piece together the two best helmet best Guardian let's piece it into one
there's only a matter of time for everything things like that well it'll help to a degree obviously but to what you were saying about like some people I think are just predisposed to get concussions cuz like I can't remember if it was the Sunday night game or a couple weeks ago Josh Allen had one of those where he got hit and his head slammed off the turf and he didn't miss a play like Texans yeah yeah the Texans game and it looked bad it was like oh yikes and he popped right back up and played
again and then it's like you know you you you immediately Wonder well if was Tua like what you know just everything that's happened over the last two years like how does that play out so it is just like I think some people are just predisposed to get concussions and other people aren't I um I yeah just got sent in update the the helmet that I uh was given banned from the NFL bill but you talk about people having their hits and not the DB yesterday yeah um for the uh Broncos who was it went up
and got the pick McMill M McMillan McMillan goes up and gets that pick he flatbacks K takes a big bump then his head bang right off the ground and he gets up and runs we've seen that same exact thing happen to people and it's over yeah he ends up scoring touchdown to cover for the Broncos and that's in Denver where it's probably cold that field might be a little bit harder too yeah right here he boom he has that little Whiplash head thing that we've seen so many times very scary very very scary it's scary
on grass it's scary on Ice it's scary in any sport that it happens whenever a head hits professional wrestling whenever you see somebody that is never good but apparently some this guy's head okay with it yeah you know it's how do you figure it out we don't know but we appreciate that it is getting uh figured out
