If you've ever had any rib injury, you know it hurts like a bitch. You feel it with every breath you take and every move you make (thanks Sting).

Depending on how deep the brusing is, I'd have no problem with him sitting this Sunday and getting back to 100%. If he goes out and the ribs are bothering him, he will not play the same. He'll protect them to some point, and that will shorten his game.

I'd rather have him healthy for the playoffs.

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play the hell out of him the next 3 games, then rest him.

Berrian out 2-4 weeks with rib injury

The wide receiver suffered a painful rib injury on the first play of the game and likely will miss two to four weeks. Watching Berrian hunched over and holding his left side while painfully wheezing out answers to the media in the locker room, one would figure a month at least. Without the threat of a deep pass, the passing offense all but shut down and couldn't produce the kind of quick strike that might have brought the Bears back into the game.
''It was one of those freak kind of accidents,'' Berrian said. ''I didn't get hit, I just kind of fell on it weird on the first play. It's hard to breathe, and it's kind of hard to talk right now.''

I see bernard stepping up and playing this week in the bears biggest game of the season

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