Ice_Ice_Brady
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Let's suppose you had a time machine and could go back to the first day of training camp. Bill Belichick, the time machine operator and wizard with a pointy hat and gleeful grin, poses the following statement:
"Now that you've seen one injury outcome of 2015, would you choose to be given a different randomly generated injury scenario, or would you like to keep the one you've seen played out?"
In a game show-like dilemma, you are forced to choose whether the injuries we've seen this year are bad enough to select a different, random injury course, which may happen to other, more valuable players but may not.
As you ponder this dilemma at Week 16 of the Regular Season, you list the facts in your head. If you choose this injury scenario, you avoid (though they could still randomly happen) the following injuries (I may have missed a few): Lewis (IR), Blount (IR), Solder (IR), Gibson (IR), Dobson (IR), Easley (IR), Tyms (IR), T. Brown (IR). You also consider the players who have missed time with various ailments, to varying degrees, such as LaFell (PUP), Stork (PUP), Edelman, Amendola, Gronkowski, Hightower, Collins, McCourty, Chung, Sheard.
On the other hand, you look at the team's most irreplaceable players and can't help but feel somewhat fortunate that, come playoffs, there's a realistic chance that you have virtually all of your most valuable players ready to contribute: Brady, Gronkowski, Edelman, LaFell, Amendola, Vollmer, Stork, Collins, Hightower, Butler, McCourty, Chung, Jones, Sheard, Gostkowski.
When you think about it, is it worth taking a different, random 2015 injury scenario at the cost of risking injury to one of your most irreplaceable players?
"Now that you've seen one injury outcome of 2015, would you choose to be given a different randomly generated injury scenario, or would you like to keep the one you've seen played out?"
In a game show-like dilemma, you are forced to choose whether the injuries we've seen this year are bad enough to select a different, random injury course, which may happen to other, more valuable players but may not.
As you ponder this dilemma at Week 16 of the Regular Season, you list the facts in your head. If you choose this injury scenario, you avoid (though they could still randomly happen) the following injuries (I may have missed a few): Lewis (IR), Blount (IR), Solder (IR), Gibson (IR), Dobson (IR), Easley (IR), Tyms (IR), T. Brown (IR). You also consider the players who have missed time with various ailments, to varying degrees, such as LaFell (PUP), Stork (PUP), Edelman, Amendola, Gronkowski, Hightower, Collins, McCourty, Chung, Sheard.
On the other hand, you look at the team's most irreplaceable players and can't help but feel somewhat fortunate that, come playoffs, there's a realistic chance that you have virtually all of your most valuable players ready to contribute: Brady, Gronkowski, Edelman, LaFell, Amendola, Vollmer, Stork, Collins, Hightower, Butler, McCourty, Chung, Jones, Sheard, Gostkowski.
When you think about it, is it worth taking a different, random 2015 injury scenario at the cost of risking injury to one of your most irreplaceable players?
