re: Green and Weeks back for Bama

Weeks won’t be back for Bama. Pipe dreams right there.

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Green supposedly has noting broken or torn. So he may be back sooner than 4 weeks.

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Zero chance. Mississippi State is better than we all thought they were going to be, and they have a good QB. But they’re not great. If we can’t beat them at home without Trey’Dez, we have no chance of making the playoffs, much less making a run. It would be incredibly stupid to not take advantage of the bye and give him an extra 2 weeks.

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It may depend on his pain tolerance

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I think it will depend on a lot of things, but pain tolerance is certainly one. Actually, pain alone might be the more important factor. He’s tough enough—and I think he’s shown that he cares enough—that he could push through some pain and go out there. But when guys have pain somewhere, even if they can tolerate it, psychologically (even if just subconsciously) they tend to protect that body part from the pain. Which makes them much more vulnerable to injuring something else.

And with his NFL future, I think that’s a risk that might start getting weighed much more heavily the closer he gets to coming back. And I don’t want this to come off as an attack on his character at all—or anybody else’s around him—but I think our record at the time will also play a factor. If we still only have one loss, hell yeah, he’ll come back for a potential playoff run if he can. But if these injuries keep piling up and we have 2 losses, the chance of us beating Bama, Texas, and Tennessee on the road in consecutive weeks is slim. So maybe they start thinking about what does he really have to gain by coming back. Maybe they wait another week to see how the Bama game goes.

And I’ve said this from the day his mom posted her thing on social media, if we have 3 losses before he’s ready to come back, he’s not coming back at all. There’s way too much for him to lose with very little to gain if we’re not in a position to make the playoffs. He’s got plenty of tape for the NFL. And this “NFL needing to see how he plays when he comes back” line I’ve seen a few people post is a myth. They don’t need to see how he is in November. They’ll need to see how he is in March and April. At Pro Day, individual workouts, and team doctors’ evals.

Business will be a factor, and business decisions may have to be made by the adults who care about him. And that includes Lane. Who I think truly does care about him. But even if he didn’t, if he throws Trey out there against Bama or Texas when we already have 3 losses, and he tears his ACL or something, that’s a really bad look for him for future recruiting. I just think that after watching us dominate A&M and everybody being so positive and optimistic right now is making us gloss over some factors that might start getting weighed more heavily the closer we get to his return.

Green's injury is a sprain. No tears or breaks. He will most definitely be back by November.