Wade Phillips: 'I get the big hit award for the week!'

Bob Hille
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Say this for Wade Phillips: He can give it as good as he takes it.

On Monday, the day after he was stretchered off the field and taken to the hospital following a sideline hit by the Chargers' Melvin Gordon, the Broncos defensive coordinator was able to make light of his lights-out moment.

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In an early afternoon tweet to his 116,000 Twitter followers, Phillips — a.k.a. @sonofbum — said, in part, that not only is he OK and back at work but also "I get the big hit award for the week!"

He then came clean on the big hit, which he described as not so much a collision but "actually I got run over."