re: Deadspin article about Pels

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1 dude was fired from the Saints for a history of botched things, including misdiagnosing a broken leg as a bone bruise. That same dude stayed on with the Pels.

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This is 100% incorrect. Dr. Suri was the new junior member of the team and his firing from the Saints was collateral damage from the senior doctor not doing a good job. I still don't like the optics that lead to Dr. Suri getting the job, the Pels keeping the doctor of the corporate sponsor while the Saints tried to find someone better.

That being said we have no evidence of Dr. Suri being tied in anyway to the poor practices of the past. Again, he's a medical doctor and he's on the bench at games looking at players instead of the old way of having a football trainer rub some dirt on it. I will say that these new injury protocols seem over protective in some ways, but it's better than the old way that got Jrue an extra year on the shelf and almost killed QPon.