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“My wife kept telling me, ‘You need to calm down, you need to calm down.’ Because I’m in front of the TV every night watching the game, you know?” explained Wilcox with a smile, knowing he undoubtedly tested the limits of his repaired heart.
“It was a great recovery for me because I got to see my team doing good while I wasn’t around. But you get those games where you’re like, ‘Man, I could have helped. I could have did this, I could have did that.’ But at the end of the day, it’s all a blessing that I’m here in this situation that I am now. Hopefully I can pick up where I left off and kind of clean up some of the things that I didn’t do last season.”
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