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The pounding these guys take is really incredible. I just hope we can get through the season without anything major -- putting aside that it derails our season (because we don't have enough depth to weather a bunch of injuries), I just hate seeing what it does to these guys. Alex Smith lives in my town, and while I haven't seen him often, and I recognize that he played for a bunch of years, he's still a relatively young guy and he's been through hell and back.