Q. After injuring his wrist in the first half last Sunday against the Bengals, Aaron Rodgers wanted to go back into the game for the start of the second half. Why did you say no to him in that situation?

A. His desire to go back in the game was instant. The process for clearance was not. We had to take an MRI of his injury, make sure we had a good assessment of exactly what it is we were dealing with. They certainly had to go through options in terms of securing it or protecting it and some of those things. And just from a procedural standpoint, by the time you get through a lot of those things, we were deep into the second half. We only had two possessions. We managed those possessions very well. And so his desire and all of that logistically coming together were two different things.

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