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There's really good news for former Vol Darrell Taylor after Sunday's scary incident

I've always had this weird connection to former Vol Darrell Taylor and his career after we crossed paths in 2016 at the Battle at Bristol where I just happened to be face-to-helmet with Darrell as he and the Vols were about to take the field at Bristol Motor Speedway in front of 156,990 fans. Yes, that attendance record still stands.

My phone was running as I asked Taylor -- didn't have a clue who the guy was, he just happened to be the one right next to me -- what was going to happen when the Vols took the field.

"We're gonna whoop they f--kin' ass," Taylor told me.

And the moment went down in Tennessee football history. The Vols beat Va. Tech that night 45-24.

Taylor went on to have an excellent college career with 19.5 sacks over 38 games. The Seahawks made him their second-round pick in the 2020 draft.

Monday morning, I found out it was Darrell who was carted off Sunday night against the Steelers after he ran his helmet into his own teammate. There are a handful of NFL guys out there who set off alarm bells in my head when I hear their names in the news -- Darrell's one of them.

It sure didn't look good as the Heinz Field medical cart hauled Taylor off to be evaluated, but, Pete Carroll shared really good news Monday with Seattle media outlets.

"He really did get a great report on his CT scan that he was clear and all of that," Carroll said Monday. "He's got more tests to do just to double-check and triple check and make sure he's OK—MRIs and stuff today—but the initial return is that he didn't have any major damage at all. He feels good, I talked to him just a few minutes ago; he's got a sore neck right now, he's got a stiff neck, but relative to what it looked like and what we were having to deal with, he really got a great turnaround, great news."

And there's even better news. Carroll didn't rule out Taylor returning to action Monday night against the Saints. That's right, Darrell could be out there whoopin' f--kin' ass soon.

• Astros fan Chris B. writes:

I dunno if you’ve been watching the Astros shit the bed, but not only are the Sox going off… the Fenway groundskeepers crushed it today. Their mowing job is badass.

• I did notice the Fenway turf and so did Joe Buck, a guy who clearly knows nice turf when he sees it. Scroll down and you'll see the photo Buck took before the Red Sox destroyed the Astros 12-3 in Game 3.

• Mike T. & Cindy T. spent Monday in the Adirondack Mountains where they stopped in Lake Placid to see what the old Olympic venues look like before making their way across the border and into Vermont. Mike's been keeping pace with the bad weather that he had late Friday in Michigan. The really good news for Mike and Cindy is that the rainy weather is out of the picture for the next two days as they go hunting for foliage photos.

• Beau in Toledo writes:

Get the Wife And Kids outside and look East…

Dat Moon, Yo

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I did get the wife and kids outside Monday to see the moon. It was cardboard recycling adventure night and there was that massive moon rising in the east. You're damn right that's a full Monday night in October. I've found that very few things excite a 9-year-old like launching cardboard into recycling center bins. Between launching cardboard and using the leaf blower, my oldest son doesn't realize it, but he's being trained to take over these jobs in the very near future.

• Chris B. writes in about the 44th annual Woolly Worm Festival in Banner Elk, NC where a woolly worm named Let's Go Brandon was named the woolly worm of the year:

Hey, Joe — thought you might enjoy some more Carolina-style Americana. 

This year’s winner? “Let’s Go Brandon."
https://www.hcpress.com/front-page/the-woolly-worm-festival-from-a-rainy-start-on-saturday-to-a-beautiful-finish-on-sunday.html

Keep reveling in real life!

Chris

p.s. We’re already raking at 4,500’, but plenty of fall foliage is still coming.

• I've been on this hunkering down kick now that it's chili (wife used leftovers to make chili spaghetti last night) and hooded sweatshirt season. My latest thing is getting on a list for a split wood delivery. Beau in Toledo keeps telling me to go the Indy Daryl route and 'Do Hard Things' by splitting up some logs that I can procure from 'sources.'

That plan sounds great on paper, but I need to pick my battles here. We're heading into the meat of the football season, I still have TNML season (ends Oct. 28), soccer season is still going for two more weeks, there's still fall golf that needs to happen and hunkering down season is clearly right around the corner. I have to pick my battles and in 2021 I think it's time to cut some corners and have a half-cord dumped in the driveway.

And now I have the 9-year-old to help me carry and stack it.

• One more tidbit from Beau this morning before I hit publish. Between teaching all of us about using jet fuel in lawnmowers to firewood procurement, the guy is an absolute treasure-trove of information. Remember how I said Katie Nolan needed to expand her circle of advisors? How she needed to hear from a variety of people with a variety of experiences?

Yeah, she needs a Beau on email speed dial.

Beau writes:

And THANK YOU for writing about and sharing things that help the Rrest of us remind ourselves what it is like to be Americans again. My "wife"(we're not "married", but we don't need a piece of paper) Amy and I are truly grateful for your work, and we both enjoy the knowledge that we are not alone, because we know that there's the #TNMLArmy out there to support what is great about our nation.

And with that, go out there and run through a brick wall today. Attack! Attack! Attack!

Email: joekinsey@gmail.com

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Joe Kinsey is the Senior Director of Content of OutKick and the editor of the Morning Screencaps column that examines a variety of stories taking place in real America. Kinsey is also the founder of OutKick’s Thursday Night Mowing League, America’s largest virtual mowing league. Kinsey graduated from University of Toledo.