You can't coach scared. You can't place here. You can slip out of your car and have some

happen to you, but we'll be not going to whatever we'll be fine. You see some of the great

ones out there. You can't sit and play in the guys, but those playing the guys. It's not uncommon.

You can always play the hindsight game or the fearful game, but what's in the best interest

for our team is to go out there, play some football together, and prepare ourselves

as much as we can for September.

Robert Salah, coach of the Jets, regarding the decision to play Aaron Rodgers in the

preseason finale against the Giants. The Snoopy trophy is on the line. Therefore, we must do what we

have to do to win that game. And all of these preseason games are meaningful as John Harball would

say. Now I'm being facetious. And I think back to Rex Ryan putting Mark Sanchez back in the fourth

quarter of that Snoopy bowl years ago and getting Sanchez injured. And I get the idea that

you know, life has risks. And oh, something that happened to you where you're getting out of your car.

I mean, a professional athlete isn't going to slip and break his arm getting out of his car.

There are certain things that he does that have a higher degree of risk than others. Playing

in a full speed NFL game when you've been red jerseyed the entire offseason training camp and

preseason, that introduces a level of risk. It's a calculated risk. Yes, he can get hurt.

It's a calculated risk. The idea that oh, anything can happen anywhere. That's really a false

equivalence because it's not like as you get out of your car, there's a chance someone is going

to tackle you. Yeah. On the football field is where someone is trying to tackle you. Yeah, I mean,

yeah, there's risk. There's risk. But you know, I also it's calculated risk here and you're trying

to, you know, take a little risk to get reward. And that's the big thing. I think more than anything.

And oh, again, like he made the we're seeing starting quarterbacks play across the league and do

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