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I do think the 34 was just too much for an old guy with sciatica and hes better off now for retiring when he did
He said he retired because they were going to use him only as a part-time pass rush specialist.
Remember they were in a 3-4 at that point so that would mean he would see the field only when they were in a 4-man line in pass rush packages.
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"I was told 'Play on third downs or don’t play at all' and I chose to retire rather than be a shell of what I was. I felt that would cheat myself and my fans.”
Youngblood says would have been accepting of the situation of he’d been beaten out by a better, younger player. “That’s part of the game, a young ‘un comes in and chases you out of a job. But, nothing against Doogie (Doug Reed) but he wasn’t ready to beat me out. I didn’t spend hours and hours in the weight room to be the second strongest defensive lineman on the team, I did it to be the strongest and most in shape defensive lineman on the squad”. And in the pass rush, some of our guys couldn’t get out of their own way”.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/03/2017 08:44PM by zn.
