NFL has made concussion protocol irrelevant in playoffs
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Throughout the regular season, in regard to the concussion protocol, the NFL was making it up as it went along. To the degree that the league didn’t even know what it was policing, it makes sense little punishment was doled out to offending teams.The TexanNFL has made concussion protocol irrelevant in playoffs
Throughout the regular season, in regard to the concussion protocol, the NFL was making it up as it went along. To the degree that the league didn’t even know what it was policing, it makes sense little punishment was doled out to offending teams.The Texans suffered no consequences for briefly bringing quarterback Tom Savage back into a Week 14 game after he exhibited seizure-like symptoms following a sack. This, in fact, spurred the league to alter the language in the concussion protocol to specifically spell out that symptoms of a seizure were a reason for a player’s automatic removal from a game.To even a layperson, a seizure would seem like sufficient cause to immediately sideline a player for at least the remainder of a game. Perhaps, the league figured, the fact that it wasn’t specifically spelled out before the Savage incident was enough to give it a dodge on imposing severe punishment. The joint investigation between the NFL and NFLPA decided that Houston had followed the protocol that was in place at Read more