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"That was a pretty interesting time in my life as I’m sure you can imagine. You know, when you come ...

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"That was a pretty interesting time in my life as I’m sure you can imagine. You know, when you come in to the league and you’re a young guy and you’re kind of installed as the figure head of an organization and you carry that mantle for 9 years - or 8 years and change - and have some success and put your blood, sweat and tears in to it. And then when you finally get hurt and are bleeding out there on the field and you have to go to the hospital for four or five days, and when you come back, all of that is forgotten and you’re cast by the wayside, it’s a bit of an eye opener. But you find out fairly quickly that football is a replacement business and that no matter what it is that you’ve done, you’re as good as your last play. And then to have all of that going on where I couldn’t get my job back and this other kid was in there playing, begrudgingly now I can say he was playing awfully well and has gone on to play very well. But you find out fairly quickly that football is a replacement business and that no matter what it is that you’ve done, you’re as good as your last play. And then to have all of that going on where I couldn’t get my job back and this other kid was in there playing, begrudgingly now I can say he was playing awfully well and has gone on to play very well."

Former Patriots QB Drew Bledsoe was a guest on Phoenix sports radio station KTAR last week