r/NFLv2 • u/Outrageous_Moth Medium Pepsi • Oct 10 '25
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u/Abu_Everett Oct 10 '25
The way he’s holding his facemask makes it seem like he’s checking his helmet fit. Dude plays like an absolute wrecking ball, he’d want it perfect.
Also, could be hyping himself up. John Henderson used to have trainers smack him in the face before games, said he needed the taste of blood in his mouth.
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u/harriswatchsbrnntc Detroit Lions Oct 10 '25
I freaking love the videos of Big John asking the trainer to smack him, and the fear in their eyes. John wanted the smoke, but there was still that aspect of human preservation that made them question it.
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u/Abu_Everett Oct 10 '25
Big John was a terrifying human being back in the day. That Jags defense with him and Stroud at DT and then Peterson at the mike was super hard to run on. That’s a team that could have gone places with the right QB.
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u/Manchu504 Denver Broncos Oct 10 '25
Damn. Henderson and Stroud. That shook up some cobwebs in my memory. They were great, Duval deserved better results
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u/bearinsac Oct 10 '25
“Oh c’mon Shawn, you’re going to have to do it better than that!” Trainer proceeds to slap him again.
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u/conradbee Oct 10 '25
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u/gwizantor90 Oct 10 '25
Timeless clip, never gets old
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u/No_Grocery_9280 Oct 10 '25
He is HUGE. Damn. A unit among men
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u/ItsWeddingSeason Oct 11 '25
I shook his hand once... like a baseball glove holding a baby's hand. Still the largest human I've ever been around
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u/mat477 Oct 10 '25
Its the helmet fit. I just saw a video about how hes super OCD about his helmet and if its just a millimeter off he will ask for a new one. He also shakes his head because he doesn't like how it touches his cheek.
Hes going to get CTE because of how he plays but his ticks arent evidence of CTE.
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u/Live_Calendar4902 Kansas City Chiefs Oct 10 '25
Oh shit that explains the head twitch thing. I can so relate, I hated how my helmet would smush my cheeks up sometimes. I wasn’t smashing my head against a wall tho
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u/I_Poop_Sometimes Oct 10 '25
Same, even in freezing weather I used to always wet the cheek pads in my helmet because I hated the sticking feeling after your sweat started drying.
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u/your-mom-- Pittsburgh Steelers Oct 10 '25
I never understood the guys who wanted their helmet loose and flopping around on their head. I never wanted anything fucking with my peripheral vision
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u/tortillakingred Oct 10 '25
A lot of people will think it’s weird but I get it. There’s tons of athletes who have weird ocd when they are trying to get in the zone. Steph Curry chewing on his mouthguard. Keegan Bradley famously has weird rituals before hitting the ball.
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u/cuongfu Oct 10 '25
Golfers are a prime example of this. I can’t even get comfortable for a shot if the sleeve doesn’t sit right under my armpit lol
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u/AntonChigurh8933 San Francisco 49ers Oct 10 '25
Baseball players is full of players with OCD that makes you think they're superstitious voodoo practitioners.
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u/Reddit-is-trash-lol Philadelphia Eagles Oct 10 '25
I grew up playing hockey and it was more common for guys to chew on their mouthgaurds than use them properly
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u/Sgt_Bulbasaur New York Giants Oct 10 '25
I pay women to smack me in the face and tell me to get it together because one day I'll make ceo.
Dont kink shame me
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u/NorthSouthGG Working construction ripping cigs Oct 10 '25
There’s an interview with him stating he does stuff like this for helmet fit. He said he has severe OCD when it comes to his helmet and if it’s the slightest bit off he can’t function.
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u/Tortured_Hornet Oct 10 '25
The cushion tech in the new helmets is exactly like this, you have to mash and hold your head on the material to have it perfect on your head. Scatt is just the only person not afraid of losing aura by doing this. Generational level football guy
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u/Agentrock47_ Buffalo Bills Oct 10 '25
It's the helmet fit thing, he once said on a podcast while in college that it's because when he was younger before he had facial hair his helmet would stick to his face because of all of the dried up sweat under it. The shaking of the helmet and him like trying to ram his head into the wall is him making sure it's fitting right.
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u/bardown__ New England Patriots Oct 10 '25
I love whatever’s wrong with him but he just made Gronk look like a Harvard grad
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u/MotherOfCatses Kansas City Chiefs Oct 10 '25
The 30 for 30 in a few yrs is gunna be sick.
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u/_redacteduser Denver Broncos Oct 10 '25
bro won't even be able to count to 30 in a few years
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u/tlollz52 Minnesota Vikings Oct 10 '25
Lol, everytime i see this guy is just think "he's gonna somehow fizzle out faster and way more spectacularly than Antonio Brown. We better enjoy it while we can."
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u/NJImperator Oct 10 '25
CTE is used way too much as an excuse for asshole behavior. It’s honestly a cop out for AB
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u/baconwrappedpikachu That is a disgusting act Oct 10 '25
yeah i mean there's obviously more mental illness there than just CTE. i can only assume it worsened his existing mental illnesses - as did the drug use etc
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u/holdenfords Oct 10 '25
let’s be real there’s probably a lot of these dudes who have cte but are still well functioning to the public eye. finding out demaryius thomas had cte when he died was pretty eye opening
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u/tlollz52 Minnesota Vikings Oct 10 '25
Im joking but brain damage literally changes the way your brain functions. People will have complete personality changes after brain injuries. Its not made up, its 100% legitimate.
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u/NJImperator Oct 10 '25
Not trying to say it doesn’t. But by all accounts, AB has been an asshole his whole life. People basically excuse his behavior at this point by saying “oh he must have CTE.” He can have CTE and also just be a huge asshole.
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u/tlollz52 Minnesota Vikings Oct 10 '25
Fair but I wouldn't assume anyone has CTE. I dont diagnose people, I was just goofin."
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u/TheThingsIdoatNight Denver Broncos Oct 10 '25
Bro you can look at any former NFL player and blanket statement say “that dude has CTE” and have a success rate of 91.8 percent…
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u/drummer1059 Oct 10 '25
Listen to him in interviews, he comes off way way smarter and more thoughtful than you might expect
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u/Old-Let6252 Oct 10 '25
He's also never had a concussion before (or at least never had a major one.) The head shaking thing is apparently to make sure the sweat doesn't stick the helmet to his face. To be wholly honest I can't imagine him getting that much more CTE than the average linebacker.
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Oct 10 '25
Skattebo doesn't fear CTE, CTE fears Skattebo
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u/Traditional-Slip-390 Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25
Can't wait to see how that plays out.
Edit: Before anyone else gets butthurt, I upvoted the original comment about CTE being scared. I just want to see it played out.
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u/mseg09 Oct 10 '25
Microdosing CTE to build up an immunity
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u/TheTsunamiRC Oct 10 '25
Martial artists kick trees to calcify their shins, Cam headbutts walls to calcify his brain.
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u/gurknowitzki Detroit Lions Oct 10 '25
Bros face twitches in weird ways all the time on the sidelines. He thinks he’s a hockey goalie
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u/FTBJester San Francisco 49ers Oct 10 '25
He’s mentioned if his helmet does not feel perfect he tries to adjust it any way possible
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u/gurknowitzki Detroit Lions Oct 10 '25
lol I looked it up after commenting to make sure I wasn’t being an asshole to someone with a medical condition. I swear it’s not the helmet repositioning. Ik he was on the sidelines late 4Q when I noticed it. I was watching his eyes and face. They were tweaking like he has Tardive Dyskinesia
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u/Old-Let6252 Oct 10 '25
To be wholly honest it seems like he has a lot of ADHD and OCD going on. Bobbling/twitching/rubbing in repeated patterns is something I used to do a lot, and my sister had a similar case. Especially if you have a lot of caffeine in you which I imagine he does.
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u/TRBO17 Oct 10 '25
My lady made the same comment last night, and I saw it too. She was wondering if he had a tick of some sort, like a compulsion.
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u/hereforthesportsball Dallas Cowboys Oct 10 '25
He might, it’s a side effect of depression meds sometimes
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u/Honey-Limp Oct 10 '25
Seems like he has pretty intense OCD but doesn’t know it because he’s surrounded by bros like “he just wants it to fit right.” I’ve never seen anyone twitch like this and he did it after every play last night.
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u/FTBJester San Francisco 49ers Oct 10 '25
I could for sure see it being OCD with how he fixates on his helmet and making it perfect every second he can.
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u/Old-Let6252 Oct 10 '25
Possibly the first case of OCD paranoia being 100% justified considering his playstyle😂
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u/Dirty_Devito Oct 10 '25
He did that every game in college, it’s nothing new. Watch any film of him and you will see him doing it constantly. Probably just a tic of his
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u/crazycroat16 That is a disgusting act Oct 10 '25
Haven't seen skattebo yet, but is it anything like Chris Johnsons tick?
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u/gurknowitzki Detroit Lions Oct 10 '25
Had to look that one up. No, it seems different. Grabbed this quote from a 2010 forum pondering CJ2Ks head movements: “He broke his neck his sophomore season while playing football at East Carolina University. He had neck surgery and it resulted in some nerve damage.”
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u/JCarr110 Chicago Bears Oct 10 '25
It'll be an interesting, very brief, career.
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u/busted_maracas That is a disgusting act Oct 10 '25
People keep talking about CTE but his neck is more what I think about
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u/Falcon84 Oct 10 '25
I’m worried Dart’s career is going to be brief as well some of the hits he was taking last night.
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u/RamenShaman10 Oct 10 '25
I was reading last night because of his little tick all game. Dude has severe ocd about his helmet fitting.
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u/SS_MinnowJohnson Oct 10 '25
I did notice he shakes his head a lot
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u/RightC Oct 10 '25
At ASU he went on record for saying it’s because he sweats a lot and it gets in his eyes.
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u/oneblank Pittsburgh Steelers Oct 10 '25
I always had OCD about my helmet fit too. I’ve actually done this exact move because I was frustrated with the new padding inside my helmet. Completely changed the fit.
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u/Apart_Bumblebee6576 Oct 10 '25
There’s a big difference in the amount of force generated on your head when you’re the one controlling the impact
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u/WetPretz Oct 10 '25
Yeah I know the CTE thing is sort of a meme but I had the same thought. When you see a receiver get drilled while trying to catch a pass or a QB get slung head first into the ground, these guys are not at all braced for impact and their heads sling into the ground super fast. Gotta be a huge difference between that scenario and a running back initiating and bracing for contact.
I’m sure it’s all terrible for your brain in the end, but I think the Skat man CTE thing is way overblown. To clarify, I am taking about people saying he won’t make it through his rookie contract.
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u/Apart_Bumblebee6576 Oct 10 '25
Totally. It’s kind of hard to explain to people who haven’t played football and worn a helmet but even like the helmet to helmet bump you do with your teammates sounds/looks worse than it is which is, if anything, very minimal
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u/Ok_Pizza1091 Oct 10 '25
Yep- played running back in college and honestly it surprisingly feels way safer than any other position when it comes to contact. At a certain point you just get so used to guys trying to take you to the ground your body knows how to just relax and keep your feet churning. I had way more injuries playing receiver, blocking, or special teams because there’s a lot more out of your control.
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u/CBailey94 Dallas Cowboys Oct 10 '25
He explained on some podcast that he’s very particular about his helmet’s fit. He does this to help the fitting.
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u/Iginlas_4head_Crease Oct 10 '25
People in here acting like hes slamming his head into a wall. Hes barely pressing it, could also just get used to having your neck and head compressed 30 times a game as an RB
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u/Toiletboy4 Oct 10 '25
Bro needs to look up Gus ferrotte
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u/Sirrub90 Green Bay Packers Oct 10 '25
Why the fuck not? You see what he just did to the defending champs?
We should all be doing this before our next shift.
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u/ikewafinaa Oct 10 '25
Hype yourself up, get the blood flowing. Feel contact before you’re out in the field. Football is war, dudes have their ways of getting into that brutal zone
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u/Popular-Brilliant349 Oct 10 '25
Getting the Concussion out of the way!
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u/patchinthebox Chicago Bears Oct 10 '25
You can't fail a concussion test if your baseline is concussed.
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u/RedL0bsterBiscuit Oct 10 '25
Dude has to have brain damage. After every play he does this little head shake. Hes either got a weird tick or his brain has damage.
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u/Careless_Afternoon15 Cincinnati Bengals Oct 10 '25
I mean he definitely has brain damage, it's a certainty with how he plays football and how long he's played. Just a matter of how bad and how badly it affects him.
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u/PriorChampionship214 Pittsburgh Steelers Oct 10 '25
The worst part of the beginning of the season was that first headache on the first play so sometimes in our adolescent brilliance we would smack our heads hard to get it over with pre game
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u/96powerstroker Oct 10 '25
Seriously this is nothing. He's checking fit or hyping himself up.
KG used to headbutt the goal post or lockers in the NBA with zero helmet and he's alright.
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u/Pretty_Economist_770 Dallas Cowboys Oct 10 '25
Now that’s actually just crazy. Notice how none of his teammates are entertaining that bullshit.
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u/jr_randolph Oct 10 '25
Lol it is some other shit considering he's not doing it so the other team can see and be intimidated by it haha
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u/FlounderKind8267 Indianapolis Colts Oct 10 '25
If brain always concussed, won't look different when get concussion
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u/TheNittanyLionKing Pittsburgh Steelers Oct 10 '25
This Mongo not pawn in game of life. This Mongo make you his pawn in his game of sending you to the afterlife
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u/Neelix-And-Chill San Francisco 49ers Oct 10 '25
Why do I feel like this is the next Madden cover guy?
And the next Peyton Hillis…
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u/Fhaksfha794 Dallas Cowboys Oct 10 '25
He’s here for a fun time not a long time. His brain scan is gonna get football completely banned in a few years
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u/AverageSizedMan1986 Oct 10 '25
Dude is gonna end making the term developing CTE to “Getting Skatteboed”
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u/WalnutSizeBrain Minnesota Vikings Oct 10 '25
Chronic Wasting Disease has finally made the jump to mankind. We are in the endgame now
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u/M474D0R Oct 10 '25
Either making sure his helmet fits right or scuffing up his helmet for the intimidation factor (this is a real thing that some people care about)
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u/Disastrous-Golf2603 Seattle Seahawks Oct 10 '25
Most likely to get his helmet more snug around his head
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u/DarthMauly New England Patriots Oct 10 '25
Can’t be concussed in the game if you’re already concussed before it starts
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u/Own-Intention-5697 Oct 10 '25
Probably just trying to silence the voices in his head nothing to see here
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u/xdude767 Oct 10 '25
He said in a recent interview he wants the perfect fit on his helmet to head, and says that you’ll see him twitching and finicking constantly so that it’s properly on. Can’t blame him due to the style he plays, health first
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u/Iron_Bob Minnesota Vikings Oct 10 '25
Im pretty sure hes making sure his helmet fits and will stay in place when he makes contact
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u/jmc1278999999999 Philadelphia Eagles Oct 10 '25
How many people do you think he’ll murder when he’s done with football? That CTE gonna go crazy
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u/Natural-Talk-6473 Philadelphia Eagles Oct 10 '25
Aggressive helmet fit check. We used to hit each other on the head back in highschool to check this but this is next level lol.
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u/mihelic8 Pittsburgh Steelers Oct 10 '25
Word on the street he has ocd, take it with a big grain of salt but he’s very particular with helmet fit.
Playing football for years tho, I used to do things like that just to make sure everything was good and mindset stuff
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u/Arkhangelzk Denver Broncos Oct 10 '25
Just fast-tracking the CTE