Dozens of high schoolers die every couple years from football. Where was the outrage? As usual, society freaks out solely when it is exposed for all to see even though they already knew about it.

Roger Goodell is terrible, but people need to realize that this situation and how to deal with it, this late in the season, isn't only up to him. The NFLPA, and probably some fine print in the CBA, have to be part of the decision as well.

There could be playoff shares, incentive bonuses, etc. etc. that come into play, as well as any decisions the players make has to be approved by the NFLPA.

What happened on the field is a tragedy. I have been sick to my stomach since I saw him collapse, but decisions that affect at least 200 other players and coaches cannot be made immediately.

Imagine if you are on a team affected by this, and it affects your ability to earn a performance or incentive bonus. Would you take legal action against the league and the NFLPA because you lost money due to a player on another team being hurt?

There are probably so many factors that we cannot even imagine, that will have to be considered before deciding what the outcome will be, etc.


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Man I was thinking the same thing. I haven't watched ESPN in ages but I couldn't turn it off until a few minutes ago.

obsessing about it

and with incomplete information. It’ll be in the am.

Well I'm sure the NFL understands very well what their product is even if all of their consumers don't (or just don't want to think about it).

A little positive break for the thread. Toy Drive Now over 1 Million.

The players were refusing to play on. Coaches were with them. They weren’t going to play. They were in shock. They were in no position to play. Faxt is the players on both sides did not want to play It’s not hard to understand. Smh

The nfl had to announce it because the players didn’t want to Again not hard to understand

Lost alot of respect for Ryan Clark tonight and his knee jerk grandstanding.

Medical testing and service takes a frustrating amount of time.

I just went through several days in the ER for both my parents the last few months.

I can't imagine this is any different.

Yup, I'm a little behind and he just popped up on my TV. Guess that's a good enough to turn it off.

Clark made an interesting point. The players at one point believed the league would require continuance. We saw Diggs trying to rally the bills players with a speech. They've all seen situations where the game goes on. Just a devastating scenario. Imagine if they did feel forced to play.

Good levelheaded take.

In situations like this, I think it's easy to want to assign blame and divert emotion to a target. That's likely what I was doing, and it wasn't fair of me to assume there weren't protocols in place and Goodell would defer to coaches and players that experienced it firsthand. Thanks for the check.

The big (and only) mistake the NFL made was giving word to Joe Buck and Troy Aikman that play was resuming in 5 minutes.

Anyone watching at that moment could tell from the players reactions that this was not a typical cart on the field injury. The NFL needed to adapt, because even in this thread we were all saying there was no way play could resume.

The players, McDermott and Taylor made a different call and the NFL honored it. Not sure what more the NFL could have done after the coaches made the call to go to the locker room.