He could play, but the doctors think there could be some nerve damage if he bangs that elbow again. It's not worth the risk. He's too good of a football player with too much ahead of him to take that kind of chance. It's a big loss for us because he's one of the great players in America. He and Michael Robinson are probably the two guys who turned the program around. That and the fact that we're still playing good on defense.
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Obviously, we've lost a couple of kids who played a lot of football. That's why you get paid. You get paid to go out there and take a look at what we've got and try to make them as good as we can and, hopefully, they'll be good enough that we can win a couple of games.Joe Paterno
(The team doctors) think he's got some ligament problems, but they are going to wait and do an MRI on him as soon as they can and find out just how serious it may be. It's a tough break for him.
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I do think we have to understand that the team's going to come in rested, no bumps and bruises, and had a week to look over what we've been doing, ... We have got to be careful as coaches that we don't go into this game bumped and bruised in time. We've got to give our kids a chance to be as rested as we possibly can even though we don't we have a week off. We've got to be intelligent in the way we coach this week. We can't over-coach them.
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Right now E. Z. Smith's situation is strictly whether he is good enough and I am not sure he is better than the guys ahead of him,
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The only thing I wanted to do is try to get us back to where we were a good football team and we could be very competitive and make some plays we hadn't made. We got that done and I feel good about that.
Joe Paterno
We just haven't had some people he can do some things with, ... I think the next couple of years we'll be able to tell.
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