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This is absurd argument.

AP was/is a freak of nature, the rarest of exceptions that stands in contrast to virtually all other cases. Don’t believe me, go ask doctors. In fact Mike and Mike had an orthopedic surgeon on this monring who made this exact point.

Only stupid managers, or those who don’t care about long-term prospects because they aren’t planning to be around to deal with consequences, base decisions on a long-shot outcome.

Oh, wait…

Players play hurt all the time, which means that they’re injured, but their injuries aren’t necessarily severe enough to keep them from playing (or likely to get worse.) It’s 2013: time to retire these games of semantics. I love football and love big hits, but we all need to lift the blinders and stop lying to ourselves about serious injuries and the toll they take.

The immortal James Andrews stock plummets in my book. He either failed the young RGIII, or Shanny overruled him. I want to know if Shanny ordered the code red!!!

I think he’s a good coach, but he probably made the worst decision a coach has made in recent memory.

The midget owner is an insecure control freak who was desperate for a playoff win and football success after years of failure and being mocked mercilessly by the local press for his misguided efforts to run the show with nothing to show for it.

The coach, unaccustomed to a critical press in DC as compared to what he had experienced in Denver and stumbing badly in the PR arena, was under heavy fire 9 weeks into the season (at 3-6) and desperate to prove he could still coach, amid widespread local speculation he was yet another in a seemingly unending series of hiring failures by the midget, and in fact he even tried to forestall such speculation by announcing they were now going to evaluate players for next year (assuming he returned) and implicitly stating the sesaon had ended, much to his players’ surprise and dismay. Meanwhile his OC was being lambasted as having gotten his job only through nepotism and his DC was about to be run out of town.

Lo and behold, his QB uses the bye week to rally the team to an improbable series of wins and a playoff spot combining sterling play with a little good fortune, but gradually subjecting himself to more and more wear and tear. Coach is no dummy, realizes this fortuitous series of events could save his job and reputation, but also that his QB is the magic wand that makes it all work.

Not suprisingly, neither the owner, who craves national spotlight showing him dancing in the owner’s suite as a “winner”, nor the coach who knows he is safe as long as his shortsighted owner is happy, is going to ask painful but necessary questions like – what is in our long-term interest? Result – keep sending that QB out there.

It will be a typical Snyderian result if his QB can’t play effectively next season and they watch St. Louis draft studs for several years with their draft choices. Worthy of a Cerrato award.

Perhaps the media is not searching for a but rather creating one.

Look what the Washington Nationals did with Steven Strasburg- set an inning limit and shut him down in the face of national criticism. Shanahan should’ve paid attention.

And yes, I agree that a doctor should never be overruled by a coach. Which does beg the question of Shanahan’s competence.

You know, before RGIII appeared they were yelling for Shanahan’s head. (it also makes you wonder why ppl are so enamored of Shanahan the younger, when clearly it was all about the skill of RGIII). So there needs to be context about the Redskins, especially since they were in a weak division.

Have a feeling we haven’t heard the end of this, as we have yet to hear from Bruce Allen and Mr Snyder.