Tee Higgins on Missing Games, Playing Through Injury

Tee Higgins on Missing Time, Competitive Mindset About Playing Through Injury

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00:00 It's definitely hard, you know, making a decision by yourself.

00:03 You know, the type of competitor that I am.

00:05 Obviously I want to be out there competing with my teammates

00:06 and help my team get a win.

00:08 But, man, you get to a certain point to where like my body is my temple.

00:13 This is what – my body is what's making me, you know,

00:16 making me money at the end of the day.

00:17 And so you got to treat your body, you know,

00:20 like you would treat anything else that's very important.

00:23 Which my body is very important, especially with this game.

00:26 So, man, yeah, I decided to take a week off, you know,

00:29 and see if I can go back at it this week.

00:33 So I started practicing and we'll go from there.

00:36 So when you're not out there

00:37 and you're not able to be physically competing out there, what is it like?

00:40 Itching, itching to play.

00:42 But, man, guys went out there last week and handled business.

00:46 And, you know, I couldn't be more proud.

00:49 You know, whenever I saw things, they'd come on the sideline,

00:52 I know I related to them what I saw and it was very helpful, so.

00:55 What is your role on a day like that?

00:57 What role do you take upon yourself there?

00:59 You kind of become like a secondary receivers coach, you know what I'm saying?

01:04 You see – even though I'm not in the box, I'm on the field and I see –

01:08 I know the game plan, so I see what defense is in that maybe, you know,

01:13 Jamar, Tyler, Andre didn't see and I just related to them, so.