Dear Mike Tomlin, we're sorry.....

[BigPapaKain]

(01-20-2016, 05:01 PM)SteelCitySouth Wrote: Who was they?  We were talking about your assertion that Ben used this to sell the idea of him being a tough guy.  We are discussing a player that is coming to the end of his career and you believe it would be out of the question for him to play hurt do to your perceived notion of the possibility of a career ending injury during the next game.  I don't think he nor the organization ever indicated that the injury was of that caliber.

All day on multiple channels they (they being the media and the doctors they interviewed) discussed first the fact that Ben had a small shoulder separation that included ligament damage.  All of the doctors interview indicated that the pain from the separated shoulder as well as the ligament damage could be numbed by injection , however if there was muscular damage they could not numb that as he would no longer be able feel his shoulder and it would impair his ability to throw.

I don't know what to tell you about watching "different" shows.  This was discussed ad nauseum on Sunday, as was his inability to practice all week.   Why would he stay out of practice the entire week except to do some throwing drill for Tomlin prior to a playoff game?

Talk about counter arguments.  You literally have provided nothing but your opinion based on your own speculation to support your assertion.  You have burden my friend, not I.  I challenge your ridiculous assertion.

They being the coaching staff that puts out the injury report.

Do you really need everything I say broken down to the simplest form possible? For ****'s sake I don't have the patience to do all that.

I never said the original injury was career threatening - but to risk worsening a shoulder injury in a QB's throwing arm has the potential to be career threatening and you don't need to be a doctor to know that. It's why I've challenged that he was so hurt that he needed carted off the field only to come back in the same game he had already been injured in. If it were so bad he was required to be carted away, it was irresponsible of the coaches, trainers, and Ben himself to let him back out there. IF THE INJURY WAS THAT BAD. Which it clearly wasn't since HE WENT BACK OUT ON THE FIELD.

That being said - for what feels like the 1000th time - I do not doubt he was hurt in Cincinnati. I don't doubt he was hurt all last week. I don't doubt he was hurt Sunday. I don't doubt he's hurting right now. What I doubt is the severity of the injury and that's literally all I've been saying.

And I don't watch sports shows - I refuse to pay for cable and the local news is all Lions and Browns. I said listen; as in I listen to a radio show on my way home from work on a local station since my work truck doesn't have satellite radio. If they have the wrong info, so be it. It's not surprising given it's a shit station that can barely broadcast in HD (and often times doesn't).

I also didn't get to watch pregame shows or hear the broadcast - I was travelling to and spending time with my father and the TV was on as a courtesy; it was also muted.

All I know is what I perceive. I had heard playing with an AC joint sprain was akin to torture. I saw Ben throwing the ball with no side effects. Er go - I perceive that the injury was either over inflated or a flat out lie.

I don't care which at this point.