Wes Welker Proves They Should Sit Football Players If They Can.

Looking back at all the discussion around whether NFL teams that clinch early or have a shot to go 16-0 should sit their starters when they can, well I guess we got an answer with Wes Welker’s season ending injury.  You may not like or agree with the answer, but it is an answer.I personally always thought that it wasn’t a big deal either way.  I agree with those coaches who say that they they probably will sit them out to avoid injury and to get healthy and rested for the playoffs. But I really don’t have strong feelings either way.

I heard Mike Ditka and others say that you play them, that you always play to win and you don’t sit players.  And others weighed in on both sides of the issue. And there were good arguments on both sides, but I tend to come down on the side of rest them if it makes sense for your team.

Then here comes the injury to Welker who was so critical to the New England Patriots on the football field and boom, they are out in the first round.

But here is something that I do have strong feelings about.  It really bothered me when I heard that the NFL was “looking into” the issue.  What does the league have to do with this.  Since when can the head football coach and the individual teams not make their own personnel decisions?

So you may or may not agree that the Welker injury makes my point.  And that’s ok.  But when I look at the pounding that professional football players take week in and week out, I have to believe that come week 15 or 16 of the regular season, that they are more susceptible to injury than they were at the beginning of the season. And that’s why I say that it is probably good strategy to give your starters a break.

What do you think Football Nuts?