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Sean Lee woke up on Sunday morning not knowing for sure if he’d play.
The Cowboys trainers had put the aging linebacker, who was nursing pec and thigh injuries, on a plan based wholly on rest and rehab coming out of the team’s 31–24 loss to the Bears two Thursdays ago. He wouldn’t take a single physical rep in practice. He’d get his mental work in. And he and the team would hope that when gameday rolled around, Lee would feel O.