Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.