Another One Bites The Dust

After all the speculation and rhetoric yet another elite NFL player is having season ending surgery. Yes it's true the Chargers Shawn Merriman coming off a week one game where he played in like half a dozen plays has decided he can't play through the pain. While Greazy and I were on the road in Chicago and Milwaukee one of the biggest stories going on was the severity of Merriman's knee injury. The Chargers were saying that the injury was not that serious and they expected Merriman to play while Merriman kept saying it was career threatening and he didn't know what to do. In the end and after a pretty bad performance by the Chargers as a team on Sunday Shawn said fuck it.

It's hard to blame a guy like this for having surgery in a league where you can be a superstar one day and taken out like garbage the next. If you want an example see Daunte Culpepper. That guy had one of the best seasons by a quarterback ever, hurt his knee and then couldn't get a team to hire him to sell programs let alone lead the offense. I liked Merriman as a former Terp although he's kind of turned into a selfish pre-madonna in the NFL. He is constantly listed as not being a team player and goes against the teams wishes by driving out to LA one day a week to do his own radio show. The Chargers losing on a last second play to a Carolina team that wasn't supposed to do much this year probably didn't inspire Merriman to want to wish further injury anyway. So add another one to the week one casualty list that already includes one of the best quarterback's in the league.