re: Am I the only one that thinks the NFL handled the injury nearly flawlessly last night?

I agree. This was, unfortunately, a situation that hasn't been seen in the NFL in decades...maybe ever. There really isn't a "playbook" for how to properly handle. Of course, we, unfortunately, live in a world where vapid virtue signaling is pervasive and everyone with a "voice" is fighting to out-outrage one another and prove they are the most virtuous.

It's not uncommon to see serious injuries (often neck injuries) occur where the game comes to a grinding halt while medical personnel rush to the scene and take every precaution to care for a player before, in many instances, carting him off the field. In just about everyone of those instances it is expected the game will resume thereafter.

This was obviously different. No one fully knew the gravity of the situation immediately besides (thankfully) the medical personnel. After Hamlin was loaded into the ambulance everyone was kind of dealing with the unknown. Was he going to be ok? Did he give a "thumbs up" like you have with many guys being carted off the field following a neck injury? What should we do? Those neck injuries are always scary and sobering to the players...but we've always resumed play right after. Is this situation different? No one was quite sure as to what was the "right call". Obviously, it became clear pretty quickly Buffalo's players/coaches were not in the mindset necessary to move forward and the game was postponed. Just because the general public didn't find out that information until much later doesn't mean that discussion with league officials wasn't happening much earlier.

I think everyone did about the best they could given the circumstances. No one forced the players to hurry back on the field. Both coaches recognized the mindset of their teams and made the decision quickly to get them off the field and out of the eyes of the fans and TV. I think everyone was waiting to see if there was going to be word from medical personnel indicating the situation wasn't as critical as initially presented and that the player was going to be ok. Once it became clear the medical personnel could not give that answer in a timely manner everyone involved felt it was best to postpone the game and the decision was made.

In 1996 umpire John McSherry collapsed on the field in Cincinnati at the home opener. Medical personnel rushed to the field. The umpires and players were clearly shaken. Eventually, McSherry was loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital where it was confirmed what everyone on the field already knew, he died on the field. There was confusion as to what to do going forward and it was OVER AN HOUR after he collapsed that the game was officially postponed. Social media didn't exist at that time, nor did the virtue signaling Olympics. Yet, I don't recall MLB being crucified (other than by Marge Schott) for taking over an hour to cancel the game.

Joe burrow picked up a ball and made a few throws. Diggs started rallying the troops which we saw but also Lisa Saunders reported the same thing about Diggs.



Nfl trying to cover their tracks now so they don’t cross the woke crowd.

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Nfl trying to cover their tracks now so they don’t cross the woke crowd.

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Do you feel like your corn flakes are a little too woke some mornings?

Many people are whining that it took "too long" to cancel the game. That's secondary. Health and safety of the players is first and foremost and NFL Health and Safety protocols are the only reason this event has a chance for happy ending.

ESPN saying they refrained from speculation all night is such a crock of shite. All they’ve been doing since then is speculating because there’s only been like 5 unique pieces of actual information to come out since he went down.

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People on twitter are just trying to one up each other on who can be the most outraged at the NFL.

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I’ve avoided twitter for today for this reason alone. Place is insufferable.

My only problem with the NFL was the 5 minute warm up thing. The fact he's even got a fighting chance is because of great planning.

Agreed. The other thing I thought about was logistics around the stadium and general area. You have 70k people exiting the stadium two hours before you were expecting them to. I assume police, traffic guards, road closure or traffic light coordination, etc etc needed to be immobilized before announcing the game was cancelled.

Yeah, given the magnitude and stage of the situation, it seems like they did a pretty solid job.

I saw nothing handled wrong last night. Sometimes life can't be resolved in 10 minutes. I was in medical field for 42 years.