Rashid Shaheed will undergo knee surgery to determine multiple weeks or rest of the season; Olave Out, Hill Doubtful for TNF game

St. Widge said

48 on game day and really only 45 if you don't count the K, P, and long snapper. It makes it really hard to really pull a significant number of guys. If it's out of reach you can usually pull some skill guys but you don't have enough players to do much more. And, as you know, most NFL games don't get out of reach at the end. Even the Tampa game was competitive right up until they blew it open later in the game.

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Yeah you’re definitely limited, but it’s still doable to an effective degree if it’s made into a point of emphasis.

Shaheed got injured late and finished the game. Why even have him in there when you can have Tipton, Means, and Wilson in there late? That’s just one example.

Even in the first two games we were winning by a wide margin, we had too many regulars out there late who we could have subbed out.

It just seems like a team like ours with the annual problem like ours would be looking for every “cheat” to help fix the issue, including things like this, as well as putting a stronger emphasis on guys that have a college and professional history of being durable.

There is a reason why guys like Cam Jordan and Demario Davis don’t miss games…some guys are just built differently and have a different level of toughness…there are many out there but we seem to ironically go with the opposite type more often than not.

For as much as I love Shaheed, and I get it that he was a UDFA, but even he has the injury history issue that has made stuff like this somewhat predictable.