Popeyejones":38o26uve said:
Scottemojo":38o26uve said:
Fisher is going to try and ignorance his way out of this one, and the NFL is going to claim teams have as much responsibility as the independent NFL doctors. Nobody want to be the last one standing on this issue.
Then the NFL would be lying through their teeth.
This whole thread is misguided IMO.
The NFL has an independent evaluator in the booth whose JOB it is to pull players from games for concussion tests. They've entirely taken it out of the hands' of teams, precisely so that it's not coaches who are incentivized to keep players in who are making the decision.
There's simply nobody else to blame except the league's own independent evaluator for being asleep at the wheel.
Not so fast.
I wrote that yesterday because the league is saying team trainers are just as culpable in player safety, and the reason they give is good. The evaluator is in a booth, not on the field talking to the player. The team trainer is on the field, and in fact did talk to the player and gave him the OK to go, then was part of diagnosing his concussion after the game. They had Foles warming up. All signs say the Rams knew he was potentially hurt, but the league evaluator talked to the trainer and was assured he was good to go.
Jeff Fisher claims he noticed none of this, and said to blame no one, then went on to blame the officials for hurrying the trainer off the field. Which is bullshit, all the trainer has to say is injured player, and they stop the game. Of course, that may carry in game consequenses based on clock, timeouts, etc., but I kind of doubt this injury would have, it was dead ball after a penalty on the Ravens.
My impression live was that Fisher was well aware Keenum was dinged. Which is why his post game comments like he was unaware Keenum got hurt were so odd, I figured it was pretty much impossible for him to have zero knowledge of such an obvious thing.
I don't actually disagree with you about who should take the blame. I am telling you that the league is so sensitive to concussion implications that they are going to do their best to hang it on Fisher or the trainer. And Fisher makes it easy to do by acting like he was Colonol Clink.
I dislike Fisher very much, if you can't tell. I think his being on the league competition committee is a joke.
