Shawne Merriman is a moron!

[salsadancer7]

Let me get this straight, instead of getting the operation HIS KNEE/S need, taking the time off to heel and come back STILL IN HIS PRIME(he is only 24), he will RISK a CAREER ENDING INJURY of one year??!! What a stupid a$$****!! I DO NOT, by no means, wish him harm....but he will get what he deserves. That is ALL I am gonna say.

It appears the Chargers will have their main defensive lightning bolt after all.

"I know what's at stake," Merriman said Wednesday. "But I had a goal with the team before the season started, and I'm sticking to it."

When asked how sure he was about playing, Merriman replied, "100 percent."

Merriman has a torn PCL and LCL in his left knee, but has postponed the surgery necessary to deal with those issues. He sought the opinion of several noted specialists in the last week. While all of them recommended surgery, the decision was ultimately left to the player.

"I'm putting the surgery off until I need it," he said.

Last weekend, as Merriman pondered his upcoming decision, he acknowledged the inherent risks in playing this season.

"It could be career-threatening if I did (play)," Merriman told The Associated Press. "It's a possibility. That possibility is still open.

"To be as simple as possible, I just want to play football. That's what it comes down to. I know what's on the table, I know what's on the line. I put a lot of work in this and I want to play."

FOX Sports on MSN - NFL - Merriman to play despite 2 torn ligaments

 

[Ramy]

He is incredibly stupid for doing this. He could ruin his whole career instead of just one season.

 

[HD MM]

I understand your guy's train of thought, but Merriman is obviously thinking about this in a different light......

For a few years now, San Diego has been on the cusp of making it to the Super Bowl. With an aging, but still effective LaDanian Tomlinson, maybe they think this year may be the year they finally break through. Either way, the Chargers window is closing. To a player of such competitive nature, he may be willing to take that risk in attempts to win a Super Bowl. Merriman is the key to the Chargers defense and without him, their chances are much less.

In poker terms, Merriman is going "all-in" on this one. Anthing short of a Super Bowl will be looked at as a bad move.

 

[69Mustang]

Who's the A$$??

Salsadancer: "Let me get this straight, instead of getting the operation HIS KNEE/S need, taking the time off to heel and come back STILL IN HIS PRIME(he is only 24), he will RISK a CAREER ENDING INJURY of one year??!! What a stupid a$$****!! I DO NOT, by no means, wish him harm....but he will get what he deserves. That is ALL I am gonna say."


Why the attitude Salsaboy? If he decides to play then it's his decision. What, is he the first football player ever to begin the season with an injury? Maybe he knows more than you.

Where you there for all of the knee tests and discussions??

 

[Paul Wozniak]

This guy has access to the finest doctors in the world (and they're all telling him not to play, with the exception of the Charger's doctor, no surprise there), and he's still going to play. You give these guys millions of $$, a college education, yet they're still dumber than a sack of hammers. Glad it's not my knee.

 

[salsadancer7]

Salsadancer: "Let me get this straight, instead of getting the operation HIS KNEE/S need, taking the time off to heel and come back STILL IN HIS PRIME(he is only 24), he will RISK a CAREER ENDING INJURY of one year??!! What a stupid a$$****!! I DO NOT, by no means, wish him harm....but he will get what he deserves. That is ALL I am gonna say."


Why the attitude Salsaboy? If he decides to play then it's his decision. What, is he the first football player ever to begin the season with an injury? Maybe he knows more than you.

Where you there for all of the knee tests and discussions??

Attitude....?? You have DOCTORS telling him not to play and to get the operation/s to heal/fix his knee and from what I read, he is thinking with his D**K and not his head. IF you don't think EVERY SINGLE offensive line he NOT gonna work a some form of "legal" chop block for this guy....you don't know football. He not be the 1st football player to start the season with this kind of injury, but he could ANOTHER of the long line of douche nozzle football players that did not take the advise of more than 1 doctor and his career was cut short.......Ponyboy

 

[salsadancer7]

This guy has access to the finest doctors in the world (and they're all telling him not to play, with the exception of the Charger's doctor, no surprise there), and he's still going to play. You give these guys millions of $$, a college education, yet they're still dumber than a sack of hammers. Glad it's not my knee.

Got that right....:up

 

[Paul Wozniak]

So what is the over/under on games played for Merriman? I say 3.

 

[iceturkee]

if the chargers coaches had any balls, they would put him on injured reserve or just let him sit on the sideline. but they don't and won't.

 

[69Mustang]

Whatever, we'll see if it pans out for him or not. He's a free agent after 09'.

 

[yourbeliefs]

Let's not forget that this isn't the first time he's done something insanely stupid:

Shawne Merriman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[salsadancer7]

if the chargers coaches had any balls, they would put him on injured reserve or just let him sit on the sideline. but they don't and won't.

ICE....they WANT and NEED him to play. This is the equivalent of the Monty Python scene in the "Holy Grail"....."2 ligament tears on his knees??....'tis only a flesh wound!!". He could be missing limbs and the team doctors would STILL puch him to play....

 

[salsadancer7]

Whatever, we'll see if it pans out for him or not. He's a free agent after 09'.

Funny.....here we are arguing ON HIS BEHALF for HIS HEALTH...and your worried about him being a free agent at the end of '09...

 

[CharlesO]

Funny.....here we are arguing ON HIS BEHALF for HIS HEALTH...and your worried about him being a free agent at the end of '09...

But it does say something about "us the fans". We often criticize players for being all about the money, if Merriman does end up ending his career by playing fooball this season he will lose millions of dollars. Yet here we are calling him a moron for playing to try to help San Diego win a championship this year instead.

 

[SabresRule]

It's intriguing how Merriman will try and play with these torn ligaments in a time and era when players have been known for not playing games with a hangnail.

 

[IcEWoLF]

And the Chargers are stupid enough to let their franchise player end his career.
NORV needs to sit him!

 

[salsadancer7]

But it does say something about "us the fans". We often criticize players for being all about the money, if Merriman does end up ending his career by playing fooball this season he will lose millions of dollars. Yet here we are calling him a moron for playing to try to help San Diego win a championship this year instead.

BUT, wouldn't you rather have a player take care of himself physically and emotionally so he can TRY to help his team win multiple championships as opposed to 1 and done? No one has made a issue of money in this thread, it has been the issue of taking the chance on one season as opposed to multiple.

It reminds of that ole joke: 2 bulls, father and son, are sitting on a hill looking down at all the cows at the bottom of the hill and one bull says to the other: "dad, let's run down there and f**k one of those cows.....!" The dad bull says, "why not walk and f**k ALL of the cows instead?"

 

[salsadancer7]

And the Chargers are stupid enough to let their franchise player end his career.
NORV needs to sit him!

Dude....that is OWNERSHIP talking. Think about it, the ONLY doctors that said he was ok to play, were the TEAM DOCTORS..... Folks, we are not talking A COUPLE OF DOCTORS....we are talk 4 DIFFERENT DOCTORS!!!

But after four doctors advised him in the past week that his best course of action was to have that procedure on his left knee immediately, Merriman said yesterday he will begin the season.

“I'm going to play until I can't take it anymore,” he said. “ . . . I'll go out there and do everything I can, put off the surgery till it's time to get it.”

SignOnSanDiego.com > San Diego Chargers -- Merriman opts to play

 

[mdonnelly]

And the Chargers are stupid enough to let their franchise player end his career.
NORV needs to sit him!

You can sit him, but you can't force him to have surgery.

My thought is that he believes that whatever happens to him from this point on won't cause any permanent harm. Fact is he's been playing with bad ligaments for two years now. What he has now is partial ligament tears, not full tears. If they were torn all the way across, he couldn't stand up.

I think he wants to play until he can't get the job done, and then have the surgery. If he can last the whole season, that would be great. If not, then contribute while he can and then come back better next year after the surgery.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

It's intriguing how Merriman will try and play with these torn ligaments in a time and era when players have been known for not playing games with a hangnail.

That only happens in baseball and basketball.