Dalton won't need surgery; may be back for playoffs

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(12-14-2015, 06:06 PM)OrlandoBengal Wrote: All seriousness, didn't he end up in rehab because of an addiction to pain killers after that ordeal?

Favre's got hooked on pain killers because of a car accident in college.

(12-14-2015, 06:10 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Marvin wouldn't keep him on the active roster unless there was a shot he could play.   And he certainly wouldn't say week to week.   He doesn't mess around when a guy is seriously hurt.   He just IR's him .

(12-14-2015, 06:15 PM)THE Bigzoman Wrote: You have to consider what this would signal to other teams. 

Keeping Dalton on IR and "week to week" gives defensive coordinators more Headaches than AJ McCarron.

Sending a guy to IR frees up the needed roster spot for the replacement, otherwise you have to cut depth from another position.  Marvin isn't going to risk cutting a guy who he needs in order to add someone off the street when a guy isn't going to be able to return.  So if he is not on IR, it is because there is actual belief that he can play again this season.

(12-14-2015, 08:14 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Rich Gannon said the first thing they will do is get him a ball of putty to start working it...

That was Jim Miller, I was intently listening to that as well.  He didn't feel that Andy will be able to return, based off of his own experience with a fractured thumb and talked at depth about how much strength is lost while it is in a cast.