Last December, Arizona Cardinals fans held their collective breath for safety Tyrann Mathieu, aka Honey Badger. On a non-contact play, Mathieu went down with a torn ACL against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday Night Football.
Many complained that Mathieu shouldn’t have been in the game at that point. However the Cardinals pointed out that there was no reason to have him out of the game at that point. Starters play the whole game for the most part.
While it certainly appeared the Cardinals had the game in hand, you never know, especially on the road on primetime television.