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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1077819" data-attributes="member: 17953">Agreed, but after week two of our sub kicking, they could have retroactively put McManus on the IR return list and had two more weeks of evaluation before considering bringing him back. It would have more than likely won one game, possibly both considering they opted to not try FGs in the first game of the last two. Needless to say, McManus wants to play and is fighting to be on the field. My problem is that you can never trust a player to give you an honest evaluation as to whether they are ready or not. By not putting him on IR he's obviously been lobbying to get out there and LeFleur buckled under it and it was a mistake. On the IR, nothing he said would have mattered because he couldn't play no matter what.To me, these are the kind of decisions that show what a top-level HC is all about. Andy Reid would never knuckle under a player's badgering to get out there. He understands that the decisions he makes effects the long-term health of the team, not the wants of an individual player.Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying LeFleur is a bum. I'm saying that he let McManus badger him into the decision because Matt is a players' coach and he listens to his players.Matt needs to learn that there's listening to them then there's making the right decisions, regardless of what the players says.</blockquote>

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