It was foggy all morning. If he's too dumb to realize there was going to be a lengthy delay, he needs to just hide away. Or, he could've lied. The latter seems to fit his m.o. better. Don't spend all offseason talking about how great you feel with no pain anywhere and then get hurt when things aren't going well.
I thought maybe he had turned a corner by simply playing like garbage last week. But he did it again and bailed. Just seems fishy. Why start your normal routine if it's painfully obvious to everyone that there's going to be a long delay?