North Carolina football coach Larry Fedora took the podium at Wednesday’s ACC media day, and by all indications, he had some extremely puzzling takes about football and this country.

According to reporters Nicole Auerbach and Brendan Marks, Fedora warned that changing football would lead to the very downfall of America. He believed that the game was under attack.

He would later double down on his comments, saying that changing football would be “the decline of our country.”

Fedora’s rant was stemmed by the safety measures taken to combat the very real risk of degenerative brain disease. In the main press conference, he praised football for being safer than ever. Fedora, though, told reporters in the breakout session that he wasn’t convinced that football even caused CTE, despite all evidence and science to the contrary.

Last year, a Journal of the American Medical Association study revealed that 110 of 111 examined brains of deceased football players had CTE.