A few weeks ago when the Kelechi Osemele-Jets feud was reaching its boiling point, I was talking to a veteran Jets player in the locker room about it. He pointed to guard Brian Winters, who was sitting at his locker.
“Do you have any idea what he is playing through?” the player asked. “He is one of the toughest guys I’ve ever seen.”
The player made the point that most of the players on the team could have surgery if they elected to. That is the nature of football. But Winters was an example of a guy you would have to drag off the field.