Ouch. With the way he plays and relies on mobility and throwing at weird angles, that may be essentially a career ender for him. FWIW it sounds like he played through it on Sunday and he made a few very strong throws on that final drive. Not that that necessarily says anything about the long term impact of the injury. Yeah, you can certainly do that before it's repaired (I did for quite a while). It becomes a pain tolerance and doing more damage thing at that point. Once it's fixed, you're fighting against the flexibility recovery that's needed to throw with the velocity he's accustomed to. The surgery has come a long way since I had it done, but it's still not a lock he can throw as well as before he hurt it (or well enough to function the way he does as a mobile QB).