Ben no doubt exaggerates his injuries and is a douche, but you can't go and call him out as a faker. If he is not playing or leaves a game I think he gets the benefit of the doubt that it is a serious injury. The guy is borderline retarded off of the football field so lets not go by his medial terminology, I mean everytime he hurts something it is "broken", but remember he is not being cleared to play by the doctors and he has played hurt a crapload in his career. He played like shit last year on that bum ankle and was not the same. You must remember when he did came back after his nose exploded. He came back after many many many vicious blindside hits from the Ravens, the kind that normally knock a guy out of the game.I just find this whole tirade year after year tiresome. Ben has no credibility whatsoever when it comes to describing his injuries, and when combined with his hilarious over exaggerations, I just don't buy it until an official team report is issued stating exactly the same. I mean, look at this from PFT:
This is without question season ending. A fully dislocated (meaning repeated dislocations, as Ben states) would take minimum 3-4 weeks to heal (for even the freakish of athletes) simply to prevent further re-dislocations. This of course doesn't remotely approach how easily it would be to dislocate again while, oh I don't know, playing football.
This is normally no problem and many a QB could back on the field, but all the while it's this supposed injury that is super rare that doctors feel the dislocating rib could puncture the aorta at any time? Cool Ben, see you on the field for the next Ravens game to lauded headlines of your toughness.
If actual reports come out that support this serious extent of injury, or Ben doesn't play again this season, I'll happily eat crow on this post.
Btw if I remember correctly You also called him out on the ankle (which I am pretty sure your dirty ass team exacerbated the damage done by the dirty as fuck Browns) and I think by now you have to admit it was a serious injury that definitely fucked up our team last year. Or do you really think his need for attention is so great that he exaggerated how bad it was and played like shit just to get in the paper?