Honoring former New York Jets center Nick Mangold, who died at 41 | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

Honoring former New York Jets center Nick Mangold, who died at 41 | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE TO MENTION THIS ON MONDAY AND THE PASTING OF NICK, MANGLE AT THE AGE OF 41 HAPPENED, JUST AS THE GAME’S GETTING READY TO START ON SUNDAY, 2-TIME ALL PRO 7 TIME PRO BOWLER AND IS HIS ENTIRE 11 SEASON CAREER WAS SPENT WITH THE JETS, HE’S A MEMBER OF THE TEAMS RING OF HONOR. HE’S 1 OF THE 52, MODERN ERA, CANDIDATES FOR ENSHRINEMENT IN THE HALL OF FAME NEXT YEAR. AND YOU KNOW, WE SEE WHETHER IT’S A DOUG MARTIN. THERE’S JUST THERE ARE GUYS WHO ARE PASSING AT A YOUNG AGE. NOW, NICK MANGOLD WE HAD HEARD THE REPORTS A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. HE NEEDED A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT, BUT PASSED AWAY. SUDDENLY THE JETS ANNOUNCED IT ON SUNDAY AND IT JUST IT IT’S JUST 1 OF THOSE THINGS. WHERE YOUR BRAIN DOESN’T WANT TO ACCEPT IT. IT’S SO TRUE. AND I THINK, I THINK, ESPECIALLY FOR ME, I’M NOW 38 AND I I THINK OF MY ERA OF PLAYING AND YOU MENTIONED DOUG MARTIN ARTHUR JONES CAME OUT IN THE SAME DRAFT CLASS AS ME. WE PLAYED AGAINST EACH OTHER IN COLLEGE. HE WENT TO SYRACUSE. I WENT TO RUCKERS I LOOK AT NICK MANGLE BEING ON THE JETS FOR 11 YEARS. MY 13 YEAR CAREER LIKE TWICE A YEAR BEING AT THE COIN TOSS. TALKING TO THESE GUYS. AFTER THE GAME, THE MEETINGS NICK MANGLE WAS A GUY UH STAYED IN JERSEY WAS VOLUNTEERING HELPING OUT AT A HIGH SCHOOL THAT MY HIGH SCHOOL SCRIMMAGE AGAINST THIS SUMMER. I’M THERE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL WATCHING THE GAME AND SOME OF THE UH ATHLETIC PEOPLE. THEY COME OVER TO LIKE, MAN, NICK, MANGLE HE’S AWESOME DUDE, AND SO WHEN I HEARD THIS, YOU KNOW, SUNDAY MORNING, IT’S JUST A REMINDER, YOU KNOW, OF HOW HARD IT IS FOR THESE GUYS TO COMPETE AND DO WHAT THEY DID AND THEN YOU MOVE ON AND AND PEOPLE KIND OF FORGET YOU’RE JUST A NORMAL GUY. AND NICK, MANGLE MARRIED 4 KIDS AND I JUST THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY’LL HAVE TO NOW, GO THROUGH WHERE EVERYONE WILL TELL THEM, YOU KNOW HOW AWESOME THEIR DAD WAS AS A FOOTBALL PLAYER AND A DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT THEY DON’T TRULY GET TO EXPERIENCE THAT. AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY LIKE, LIFE IS SHORT AND ALL THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT FOR ME, IT’S JUST BEEN A DIFFICULT TIME OF JUST SITTING HERE AND LIKE, REMEMBERING COMPETING LIKE MARTIN AND PLAYING AGAINST THESE GUYS AND THE JOY AND FUN, WE HAD COMPETING BUT THE BROTHERHOOD YOU KNEW YOU STOOD IN WHEN YOU FINISHED AND YOU WERE HANDSHAKING OR HUGGING AND ASKING GUYS ABOUT HOW THEY WERE DOING AFTER THE GAME AND TO SEE SOME OF THOSE GUYS, NO LONGER WITH US, IT’S HEARTBREAKING. UM, JUST TO HAVE TO EXPERIENCE THAT AND SEE THAT. BUT AGAIN, IT’S A REMINDER HOW MUCH WE ALL LOVE TO PLAY THE GAME OF FOOTBALL BUT JUST HOW TRULY SHORT LIFE IS AND JUST TRYING TO ENJOY EACH 1 OF THOSE MOMENTS. SO, DEFINITELY YOU KNOW? ARTHUR JONES AND HIS FAMILY. DOUG MARTIN AND THEN NICK MANGLE, UH, AND HIS FAMILY. IT WAS AN ARTICLE IN THE ATHLETIC LAST WEEK AND I HAVE IT OPEN AND IT’S 1 OF THOSE THAT DEMANDS FULL FOCUS TO REALLY DIGEST IT BUT GERALD MCCOY WHO’S NOW WITH NFL NETWORK REFLECTS ON THE PASSING OF MULTIPLE OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND TEAMMATES AND HE TALKS ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT IT IS FOR PLAYERS WHO HAVE PLAYED FOOTBALL MOST OF THEIR LIVES FROM THE TIME, THEY WERE A LITTLE BOY, AND THEN, I USE THIS METAPHOR ALL THE TIME BECAUSE IT’S TRUE IN THE ATTITUDES OF THE OWNERS. IT’S, WE’RE TAKING THE PIECE OUT OF THE MACHINE AND WE’RE GOING TO REPLACE IT WITH ANOTHER 1 AND THEN THE PIECE THAT GETS REMOVED GETS FORGOTTEN AND THE MACHINE KEEPS ROLLING, THAT’S 1 OF THE WEIRDEST THINGS, YOU KNOW, EVEN IN THE YEARS WHERE TOM BRADY SUFFERS A WEEK, 1 SEASON ENDING INJURY BEN ROTHER, 2019 GONE IN WEEK 2 WITH THE SEASON ENDING ELBOW INJURY, THE TRAIN KEEPS ROLLING. AND THE LIFE KEEPS GOING FOR THE GUYS WHO HAVE ONLY KNOWN FOOTBALL THEIR ENTIRE LIVES. AND FOR A LOT OF GUYS, THAT’S A DIFFICULT ADJUSTMENT, SO THAT’S JUST PART OF THAT EXPERIENCE. AND IT’S JUST PART OF THE STRESS AND STRAIN OF LIFE. NOW AGAIN WITH MC, NICK MANGOLD HE HE NEEDED A KIDNEY AND AND OBVIOUSLY IT DIDN’T IT, IT DID NOT WORK OUT BUT WHEN YOU SEE THESE GUYS DYING YOUNG IN A WAY THAT IS SKEWED IN RELATION TO THE GENERAL POPULATION. IT REALLY DOES. I I I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE SOLUTION IS. I THINK WE JUST ALL NEED TO BE MORE SENSITIVE TO THE FACT. AND I TRY TO DO THIS ALL THE TIME BECAUSE YOU KNOW, WE ROOT FOR THE LAUNDRY, WE ROOT FOR THE HELMETS, THE PLAYERS ARE MORE ANONYMOUS IN FOOTBALL THAN THEY ARE IN ANY OTHER SPORT BECAUSE THEY THEY ALL GET HELMETS ON. THEY’RE ALL DRESSED THE SAME BUT THERE’S A HUMAN BEING IN INSIDE OF THERE. AND THE THE THE RISKS YOU GUYS TAKE THE, THE PAIN YOU HAVE TO ENDURE, YOU WERE TALKING AND WE WERE TALKING TO A BREAK ABOUT IT AND YOU WERE LIKE REALLY CHILL ABOUT HAVING BROKEN RIBS, I’VE HAD BROKEN RIBS. THEY ARE NOTHING TO BE CHILL ABOUT BUT I THINK YOU JUST ACCEPT THE FACT THAT AND THIS IS PART OF, OF THE DNA OF A FOOTBALL PLAYER. IT’S JUST WHAT IT’S THE WAY IT IS, AND YOU ACCEPT IT. AND THE THING WE ALL NEED TO REMEMBER IS THERE’S A POINT WHERE THE CAREER ENDS AND THERE’S A LOT MORE YEARS OF LIFE TO LIVE. IDEALLY THAN THE PLAYER HAS ALREADY LIVED, AND THAT CAN BE A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TRANSITION. WHEN THE THING THAT YOU’VE ALWAYS DONE IS GONE FOREVER, YEAH, THERE’S NO DOUBT AND I I’M I’M FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE THAT OF BEING HOME AND TRYING TO FIGURE THINGS OUT AS A DAD AS YOU MOVE INTO THOSE NEXT THINGS. AND UNFORTUNATELY I’M A PART OF COMMUNITY AND IT’S BASED ON STRICTLY HELPING PRO-ATHLETES TRANSITION TO WHATEVER’S NEXT MENTALLY EMOTIONALLY, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY FROM A JOB STANDPOINT, FINDING PURPOSE AND THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS. AND THAT’S BEEN A JOY TO BE A PART OF THAT BOARD AND BE THERE TO HELP GUYS AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE. SO UM, THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE COMING OUT, BUT LIKE YOU SAID I PLAY FOOTBALL FOR 25 YEARS OF MY LIFE. I’M 38. LIKE THAT’S SUCH A LONG TIME TO DO IT. IT’S HARD TO REPLACE IT AS MUCH AS I LOVE WHAT I’M DOING. NOW, THERE’S OFTEN TIMES I MISS IT BUT YOU KNOW THAT TRANSITION’S BEEN BUT THE GUY’S GOT TO STICK TOGETHER AND HELP EACH OTHER OUT AND I THINK IT’S MOVING AND I NEED TO GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT GROUP BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING I WANT TO PUBLICIZE SO THE FORMER PLAYERS WHO ARE STILL PLUGGED IN TO FOLLOWING THE NFL CAN SEE IT AND MAYBE CAN HELP SOME GUYS OUT BECAUSE IT’S GOT TO BE A TOUGH TRANSITION. CHUCK NULL ALWAYS SAID THE PERIOD AFTER YOU PLAY FOOTBALL. IS YOUR LIFE’S WORK? AND I THINK IMPLICIT IN THAT MESSAGE IS FOOTBALL, IS A VERY, VERY TEMPORARY SLICE AND YOU GOTTA BE THINKING OF THE BIGGER PICTURE THAT THERE ARE

Mike Florio and Devin McCourty reflect on Nick Mangold’s impact as an NFL player and as a member of the community, as well as discuss the challenging transition for players after their career. #NBCSports #NFL #ProFootballTalk
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