I agree it was a horrible comment, but having a hip replacement doesn't mean he's not going to be in a wheel chair in his 50's if he get's injured again. Sometimes you just gotta know when to hang up the cleats. Pitta is one of my favorite Ravens, but I would rather see him live out his days healthy with the money he has made still being healthy enough to have a career after football than see him have a thousand yard 10 td season only to reinjure himself and not be able to walk up a flight of stairs and has to live the rest of his life on disability. 50 years of regret for not seeing if he can make a come back, but living a healthy happy life with his family otherwise or risk living the rest of his life getting pushed around in a wheel chair by his wife?
Yeah horrible comment, but life isn't a fairy tale and its not guaranteed after another hip injury a hip replacement will make him "more than capable" of walking his daughters down the aisle.