By Tom Rock
Mangini refused to say which of Jonathan Vilma's knees is the one that is injured. Perhaps he felt he gave up too much information already when he announced that Chad would be the starting QB on Wednesday. A coach has to have SOME secrets.
But he was asked directly, and I'm paraphrasing here, what the big cockamamee deal is which knee it is. Here, for the record, is his answer:
"Historically whenever you have an awareness of an injury, and opponents have an awareness of an injury, that is something you take into account when you're running routes, when you're running plays, the directions that you run plays. How a guy can cut or not cut. Where they're going to be quicker. What may be effected, that does come into the decision-making. What kind of routes you;re going to run against them. Whatthe liklihood of being able to take advantage of a slowed-down player might be."
Mangini was told that if Vilma returns to the field with a huge brace on his knee, it'll be obvious at that point.
"Maybe we'll put a huge brace on both knees," he said.