I don't know why we seem to always come to these conclusions that a guy coming off injury is just a disaster waiting to happen. When, historically, has that been the case? I would hope that if a guy is still hurt and not able to do his job, the staff would be perceptive enough to see that and smart enough not to play him.
These guys aren't china dolls, as much as we like to call them that when they get hurt a lot. If a player says he can go, the docs say he's healthy, and the coaches see him performing as expected, then he needs to be on the damn field. That's why they get paid. Living in our fears is what loses games, not playing a guy who has recovered from an injury and is now healthy.
I said the same thing all week about Ben when it looked like he would recover quickly from the foot sprain. If all signs indicated that he's healthy enough to play, then god dammit go out there and light up the Stains. That's what you're here for. Making him inactive as a precautionary measure is simply playing scared and could have cost us a game (although I doubt it seeing how bad the Stains pass D was yesterday). And I was right. Ben was healthy, even absorbed some hits and moved around in the pocket, and played like Ben. These aren't gigantic walking vaginas out there.
