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Welker's injury was a football injury. It happened because he was playing football and making a play. The so-called "fluke" injury is one of the reasons you rest players during 'meaningless' games.
This is why you are becoming part of the problem when you used to project as part of the solution beyond your incessant penchant for dragging threads off topic to beat minutae into the ground...
Who do you rest? Can only dress 45 and have to play at least 25 pending injury. Do you risk rotating some of the 20 odd remaining actives to avoid injuring the 25 or do you throw the 25 to the wolves and simply refuse use any player who generally sees more than 50% of the snaps in meaningful game situations?? Remember this isn't preseason when you have access to 80 odd players your attempting to evaluate. Do you mix and match unfortunate starters and backups and third stringers even though playing those groupings may throw off timing and communications across the board and even end up increasing the exposure to football injury for an entire class of players...the starters or key rotational or backup players who can't sit...
Or do you selectively manage your roster as you always do with an eye towards both short and long term goals predicated on winning football games? Do you rest only players who need it most and play those starters who would normally start who need to play or who comprise units that continue to need reps in game conditions to develop cohesive execution and consistency in some limited fashion?
I hope you're listening to Fred and Steve and even Ordway right now because they are laying out the myriad rationales that all football coaches deal with in these situations in every game from pre to post season regardless of whether or not winning that individual game has any impact on the overall season. Football coaches and players, let alone players and coaches with a winning mindset and track record, don't think like you do Deus, and the sooner you figure that out the sooner the rest of us will be the better for it...