Will Long be ready for Bears’ season-opener?

I'm at a loss to explain what's up with PM.  I don't even know what he had done.  Do any of you know any details?

Not really.  All that I've read in the past seemed to indicate it was just a routine procedure but when a guys has his knee scoped in like February or so and in August he's still somewhat gimp I have to question just how accurate any of what I've read has been.

I may be able to do a search for some prior stuff and reread it to see if there's something hiding in there I missed but I doubt it.  Maybe the more recent news or rumor if you will, is that Baltimore was aware that it was a chronic problem which is why they chose not to compete with us to keep him.  That may also explain why he came at such a reasonable price if that was also common knowledge among other teams.

It all leaves me wondering if we don't have another deal here like we had with Urlacher were his knee injury was also thought to be degenerative.