MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The NFL doesn’t believe you requirement to understand.
When a group’s initially offensive breeze yields a security and it’s not the most dreadful part of the play, you understand it’s a dreadful start. That’s how Teddy Bridgewater’s day started and ended vs. the New York Jets last Sunday.
Days lateron, we’re still questioning why, consideringthat he passed concussion tests.
From the NFL – crickets.
Watching high above, the league-mandated spotter seeing for injuries disqualified Bridgewater, stating he saw the quarterback stumble after being hit by cornerback Sauce Gardner and striking the side of his head on the grass.
Was the spotter appropriate? Did he overreact? Does the NFL have proof to assistance or refute the choice?
We puton’t understand. We mostlikely neverever will — even however, at one point, the league yielded we have a right to understand.
Let me describe.
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An company called the Pro Football Writers of America links beat pressreporters of all 32 groups, providing us a higher voice jointly than we might ever have separately on how the league is covered. Within each of those 32 departments is a chapter president, chosen in a vote by those authors.
In Miami, that’s me.
Among my responsibilities is to conduct gameday interviews with authorities to discuss complicated or questionable calls, such as the struck on Tom Brady last Sunday that resulted in a roughing-the-passer charge. When such calls are made, the swimmingpool pressreporter receives an description from the referee or head of officiating. The NFL then disperses a records of their discussion allatonce as a swimmingpool report to everybody covering that videogame.
Over the years, I’ve carriedout a coupleof such interviews, consistingof on a questionable pass disturbance charge on Nik Needham vs. the Jets and another first-down measurement that came down to millimeters. These interviews offer a important service for fans.
This brings us to last weekend.
As you’ve mostlikely heard, the NFL revealed adjustments to the concussion procedure Saturday following 2 strikes on Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. We all understood these modifications, in the interest of gamer security, suggested erring on the side of care and that quicker or lateron, somebody would get riled up when their quarterback gets tugged from a videogame.
How right we were. That group was the Dolphins after one — one! — play. The thing about it, though, was Bridgewater frantically letloose a pass while going down. Anytime such a toss is made, my veryfirst idea is constantly whether it’s deliberate grounding. Since this struck happened in Miami’s end zone, I understood a security was in the cards, so I focused on the authorities gathering. There appeared to be no factor to keep my fieldglasses on Bridgewater getting up and strolling off.
CBS’ videocameras and director idea the verysame thing, duetothefactthat if you were viewing on live TELEVISION, you saw much of what I did. So when we discovered out Bridgewater “stumbled” and was done for the day, we had no option however to take the NFL’s word for it.
But …
We quickly discovered the Bridgewater passed all concussion tests after being taken to the locker space. But the spotter’s judgment defeated all. Bridgewater was done.
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