If it was known he needed knee surgery after Week 1, then I'm going to have to change my tune and say they should have shut him down probably half way through the season ... around the time we lost to Seahawks and Vikings. That'd be the time to shut him down.

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- Thats cheating ZTC. We all have to make decisions with imperfect information.
- The knee thing is probably a clean out. You can't move like that (v Jets) with major damage.
- Regardless, WITH THE BENEFIT OF 20/20 HINDSIGHT, many of us were right when we said he should not have played v Jets (and Lions)

Originally Posted by: KRK 

Lots of injuries are of the type where its more of a pain management thing than anything else and playing on it will not make it worse. If they knew he would need surgery but playing wouldn't make it worse I have no problem with the decision to play him.

If playing in those games made it worse and now he needs surgery then it was stupid to allow him to play.

Originally Posted by: sschind 

I agree with this with the caveat of me not knowing what the recovery looks like. If having surgery now, versus 4-6 weeks ago means that he's going to be anything less than 100% going into training camp because he's still recovering or building up strength, I would call it a mistake to not pull him sooner.

Originally Posted by: Porforis