The quote that has stuck out for me, came from JP on Wed. When asked what Eric has meant to him this season.. JP said something like: EM is a comfort zone, when he is one-on-one, he is open and it's a completion.. "that's the way it's been for a long time and if he plays or when he wants to play, that is how it will be."
Maybe I'm reading to much into the words of some young guy, caught in a corner, with 47 cameras and microphones stuck in his face... but it sounds like EM didn't take a few plays off to get looked at by a trainer...