He's demonstrated as much on the proving grounds of Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas and at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis - in those venues he showed what a great football player he can be, and also how fragile.
Tough isn't the word for it - crazy, perhaps?
Point being that Danny Amendola has nothing to prove to anyone in regard to toughness and talent, so he needs to stop trying. Whether the pressure he's under is from external sources or he's just a competitive dude that has to be the toughest guy out there, it doesn't matter. We get it. You're tough.
It's looking more and more like Amendola will play this Sunday when the New England Patriots play host to their division rival Miami Dolphins, which will make this the fourth out of eight games that he's been able to play in - but he's not been healthy for any of them, limited by a torn adductor muscle since early in the preseason...
...gutting out the fully torn muscle in the second half of the season opener in Buffalo to the tune of 10 receptions - a couple of them circus-like catches - for 104 yards. The next action he saw was in Cincinatti four weeks later and then the following week against New Orleans.
Looking kind of gimpy in both games, he managed four catches against the Bengals and two against the Saints before he got his bell rung, lowering his head to try and pick up a first down - on his one rushing attempt for the season.
"It's just one of those things; I'll be fine. It's not going to scare me to play the way I play." Amendola said on Friday of the concussion he suffered on the hit, "I still have a job to do and I'm going to do it,"
And the job you have is to stay on the field and help your team, not to stick your nose in a pile and get your brains turned into oatmeal. Your numbers suggest that when you are on the field, you are a capable number one, but your history suggests that you're not on the field enough to make that sort of consistent impact - so be careful, huh? Try going out of bounds for once in your life?
Because as the old axiom from the movie Top Gun goes, "Son, your ego is writing checks that your body can't cash."
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