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Where's my phone? Juliana, maybe we can ask an actual human. Yes, because I have questions. And I bet you do too.

Like, is it normal to sleep in separate bedrooms? We do that. And I still need to know why my poop's been green. We've got actual people answering these exact questions.

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stupid. Such incredibly bad politics. We have to talk about it. Come for the hot takes, stay for the sanity. Listen to Off the Cup on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mange Shachigular and I'm back with a new season of my podcast, Skyline Drive. This time I talk to scientists, biopunks, curmudgeons, blues owners,

super seniors, and Goa's top cryotherapy lab to try to understand this obsession with living forever and what it means for all of us. And I get into a bit of trouble along the way. I'd say probably start bone smashing.

That doesn't work. Make it look more defined. They say it works. I don't know.

Listen to Skyline Drive, How to Live Forever on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio. Michael Strahan, Hall of Famer, joining us on behalf of USAA for the unveiling of the

National Military Monument in Washington, D.C. this weekend. We'll talk to him about that. You look like you're in shape, but the difference of regular shape, football shape, is what?

I'm in TV shape, Dan. Thank you for having me, as always. Great to see you, my friend. I'm in TV.

You know what kind of shape I'm in? I'm in that shape where my friends can't text me when they see me on TV and say, boy, you look like you gave up. So just enough to look like I'm good.

Football safe, I thought about it this morning because I know training camps are starting. And I said, man, I still feel like I've got something in the tank. I couldn't last a play. I walked up and stared the other day, and I was out of breath.

I'm done. Okay, but help me understand Aaron Donald. Now, it's been two years since he's played. How long does it take, would it take, do you think, for him to be ready for the season?

When he retired, I thought he still had a lot more in the tank. To be honest with you, I thought Aaron, I think he had at least three or four or five years left. He retired when he just got out. Maybe I'm a little tired of it.

But if you've seen him work out since he's been retired, I don't think it's completely out of his system. And now you get a guy like Myles Garrett. You can't double team both those guys. I think that if I were Aaron, I would really give it a legit shot because I don't think he ever got out of shape.

As long as it's in his heart that he wants to play, then I think he'll be fine. But if you're really not into it, that's how you get hurt. But I have no doubt that if he decides to go back and play, he's going to be all in. It feels like we've gone from that edge rusher to now everybody wants that nose tackle.

And I don't know if that's a shift, but I'm certainly aware of, if you look at Leonard Williams, Vita Vea, Dexter Lawrence, Kobe Turner, Aaron Donald coming back, everybody needs or wants that guy. It's not that easy.

Is it easier to find edge rushers still than it is that nose tackle? I think so. Well, it depends because it's a different thing. You have a member of John Randall, of course, Hall of Famer John Randall.

He was an interior guy, but he could rush the passer. That's the hardest thing to find, a guy like Aaron Donald who can dominate from the interior. You can get a guy who can kind of stuff the run, but to get an interior guy who can pass rush is always difficult.

I think that that's a very specialty thing. I think it's easier to find an edge rusher because guys specialize in edge. You have guys who probably have a better build for being an edge rusher. You have guys who are just athletically gifted in that way.

And a lot of guys, when they're playing and they're growing up, they look at the list and they go, quarterbacks make the most, and then the edge rushers make the second most. I want to do that instead of go inside and get beat up when I'm getting beat up

by two or three guys at a time. So I think that it's kind of, these guys understand, playing the edge is a little bit easier than playing inside. Being an inside pass rusher is a very difficult thing.

Aaron Donald, he made it look easy, but it's not. Believe me, I wouldn't want any part of that. I don't know if there was any talk at the time. I brought it up.

I've since brought it up a couple of times. The front four for the Giants against the Patriots in the Super Bowl, you guys collectively were the MVPs, but they have to give it to one person. Did you guys ever talk about, you know, like the Green Bay Packers offensive line

or the Broncos offensive line against the Packers in the Super Bowl? They were the MVPs, in my opinion. Well, I mean, I love Eli, and Eli made some play to help us win that game. I'm grateful for Eli because without him, my life is completely different.

I probably don't retire. I'm crazy enough to go try to go back again. But if you're going to give it to one guy, I agree. Give it to Eli Manning.

or you could have given it to Justin Tuck. Or if you had given it to the defensive line, we had already worked out a plan because, you know, don't you could have got a car or something.