While attending Tulane, worked at the hospital; one of the services that worked the same floor as our unit was orthopedics...

During that time working while in school, can tell you this is common in borderline decisons for Sx, and the Docs will try to see if the patient can heal sans Sx...

Kinda of the First Do No Harm philosophy that is implied in the Hippocratic Oath; Sx brings the risk of infection, delaying, even complicating, recovery...

The unrelated parallels (other than being New Orleans Saints) to the rookie breakout and subsequent injuries as Marques Colston incurred though are troublesome...

Not so worried about WRx as Calloway and Tre'Quan should be able to provide enough production; but the WRz is now that much more important...

Hoping the rookie Baker can take the opportunity for the slot targets as the WRs...

The opportunity for those targets is now Colonel Trautman...

That's exactly what happened with my knee, wait....wait....wait.... surgury.

Elective surgeries were impossible to schedule for the beginning few months of the year. I know that for certain here in Louisiana. I suspect it was the same elsewhere. A guy in my Sunday School class had to wait from February until late May to have knee surgery. My niece works for an orthopedic clinic and they didn't do anything other than emergency surgery for months, as well. Not saying this is the definite reason, but it may have been a factor.

Then again, he may have hoped it would heal on its own.