He was off the field for less than a minute Tuesday afternoon. He calmly arrived at his locker, removed some of his work clothes and, before heading to the trainer's room, Murphy provided a diagnosis/prognosis for his injured right knee. "Not too bad," he said. But then he walked to the trainer's room.

Before he turned into an office on the left, he banged his clenched right hand against a door on his right. Body language speaking loudly.

By Wednesday morning, "not too bad" had morphed into "not so good," and by Wednesday afternoon, Murphy's injury had turned into disability, two to six weeks of it. The twisted right knee suffered during a rundown Tuesday was, in fact, a sprained medial collateral ligament.