I guess you missed the part where he was coming back from illness. Specifically gastroenteritis, or 'stomach flu'.
That's where you spent every 5 mins on the toilet shitting through the eye of a needle, and the time in between throwing up.
You don't know which end it is going to come out from first.
Anything you eat goes straight through you.
It's a struggle to maintain body fluids.
You have no energy so feel lethargic.
You don't want to be more than 10ft away from the bathroom.
Sometimes you have fever and pain in your joints.
You sure as fuck don't feel like playing professional football.
Someone else complain that he wasn't starting tonight.