Barnidge

[grampahol]

Not all injuries are created equal and not all TEs are either for that matter. 
Remember Dan Coats? No, not the Indiana congressman, the former Bengals TE who everyone thought was horrible. He routinely dropped passes, but what was overlooked that season was he was dropping passes when his thumb was just about torn off his hand, but he stayed in there and kept playing. 
Now Eifert seemingly gets a hangnail and is out for the season. 
Nobody can sit and tell us just how much pain is too much pain for anyone else to endure nor on the flip side they can't realistically tell us it's not enough pain.
For whatever reason players get injuries we generally don't get a lot of information about. The pain-o-meter just isn't made public nor should it be. Pain is just too hard to predict because it's just too subjective for the person feeling it.
I'm sure everyone here knows someone, usually several people who takes the day off because they have a cramp in their little toe or whatever while the next person is willing to go to work with two broken legs. That's just the way it goes. I suspect football players are much like the general public with pain. Some will keep on playing despite severe pain while some are ready to fold with even minor skin irritations..

Oh wait..we were talking about the potential benefits of bringing in Gary Barnridge to be a backup.. I might be ok with it, but I have no idea how much money he wants or what the extent of the injuries were to the guys currently on our roster. Perhaps our guys tried to play through severe pain and couldn't or as in the above examples became pain drama queens. We just don't get enough information to make these determinations . I'm going out on a limb here and guessing that's why we have team doctors and personnel departments and so on. Sadly teams tend to leave the information we receive up to the PR department. If you were severely injured would you rather get a diagnosis from the doctors or from the hospitals PR department?