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Not every coach or player is in agreement here.

All of those on FOX and ESPN are in agreement as I stated. I also heard Mark Schlereth on ESPN this morning say the same thing. Playing through injuries in the NFL is part of the culture. You and I may not like it, but players have been doing it for decades. When and if a player doesn't, he can lose his job, like the most obvious, Alex Smith, of the 49s this season.

Playing through injuries in the NFL is part of the culture.

It sure is. But when your franchise QB who has already had an ACL reconstruction, starts hobbling on the knee, you take no chances.

An ACL revision has a several-month longer rehab period than the first reconstruction. A fast rehab on a revision is about 9 months for the most aggressive/optimistic. A revision may also require the surgeon to disconnect the original ACL, bone graft the holes in the bone (where the reconstructed ACL was threaded), wait 3 months for the bone graft to heal, and then perform the revision. Rehab doesn't even really start for those three months.

A revision surgery also has decreased odds of long-term success.

Whether RGIII has actually torn his ACL or not this time is irrelevant. Once a previous ACL reconstruction patient starts hobbling around on the same knee, he should be taken out...period. Doesn't matter what he says.

It was the wrong call to make. And if a doctor actually cleared him during the game, he should be ashamed of himself.

The Skins have now risked four high draft picks and a franchise QB because RGIII said he was "fine". He may never be the same player again. I can only pray that his injury is minor and hope he makes a speedy recovery. He seems like a good guy.