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Packers LB Nick Barnett Considered Playing With Injured Wrist
Posted By: BigBlueBruiser 10-21-2010 , 09:46 PM
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Veteran linebacker Nick Barnett believes the Green Bay Packers are going to the playoffs and wanted to be a part of it. Despite the wrist injury, he probably could have come back this season, and he almost did. "I'm getting to the end of my career," Barnett said Thursday. "I don't know how many years I've got left -- four, five maybe, years. You want to take advantage of every single game or being around here as much as you can. So definitely, it's hard to deal with." But doctors told Barnett that if he took another hit on his wrist, there was a risk he might end up having a hard time using his right hand well after his career was over and so Barnett reluctantly had the surgery, and the Packers announced last week that he would miss the rest of the season. Amid increasing awareness of how difficult life can be for retired football players with chronic health problems, Barnett put his long-term future ahead of his short-term goals. "It was hard as heck," Barnett said. "There's two families you think about. You don't want to leave this family (the team) out to dry because you need to get something fixed. But at the same time, I've got to raise boys. I don't want to leave them. I would like to throw baseballs to them and do normal stuff." Even as an eighth-year NFL veteran and cornerstone of the Packers' defense, his decision might have been different if he had hurt his left wrist instead. "If it would have been my left hand, to be honest with you, I would have played," Barnett said. "But being that I'm right-handed, for the rest of my life it's going to be kind of hard to not use your right hand the way that you need to use it. But unfortunately stuff happens."

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i dont think many people get it.... losing the man with the mic, the guy that calls the d... huge part of the team.... two years in a row... not much time left for barnett
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Tne way our division looks, we can reach the playoffs....
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