[sportscurmudgeon]

A true Redskin will decide to have surgery that may make him a good player again or possibly end his career entirely because it will be better for the team?

Tell that to the players who get cut or released by the Redskins and who are out of jobs like Trotter or Armstead. Tell that to Mark Brunell when you don't honor the 3rd 4th and 5th years of the contract you signed with him.

The NFL is a business. Coles has a contract with the Redskins. They can pay him or they can cut him. They really don't have a lot of other choices because he's not going to bring much in a trade if the reason you are trading him is that he needs surgery that he may or nay not elect to undergo. He - and no one else - is going to decide on whether or not he has surgery.

And if you met him in a bar some night and gave him that "true Redskin line", my guess is that he'd laugh a long time.