re: Surprise surprise NFL not punishing Panthers for SCam's "eye injury"

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A) He actually flips the Defender over him with his knees. That's important because concussed people are generally out for a second, they lose all functionality in their limbs. (25 second mark)

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No they do not. Not all concussions are the same, mild ones can have no loss of consciousness or lose functionality.

If you don't remember, players used to play concussed all the time without realizing it. I'm sure even linemen still go through it today's game.

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B) Notice as he gets up he's wincing his eye. Clearly something happened with his right eye. (12 second mark, 34 second mark, etc. Basically the whole damn clip he's wincing his eye.)

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Dizziness, blurry vision, headache, confusion are all symptoms. There's obviously more, but all 4 of those would cause average joe to wince. Hell, I wince when I get a pulsating headache or you see it when people get migraines.

Oh look, here's Russell Wilson wincing too
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C) He then puts his arms out to get up and still is wincing. Concussed people aren't instantly getting up without wobbling.

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once again, difference in severity.
kamara literally got up and ran to the sideline
Wilson got up and ran to the sideline while wincing his left eye.

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D) He then starts walking over without wobbling to his sideline (51 second mark). My theory here is that the coaches in his helmet finally told him to fall to the ground to get that injury timeout. I can't prove this though.

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nobody can, but he was evaluated for a concussion on the sideline along with the eye BS. Which means even him "falling" would say he's vertically unstable which should have been brought to the back.

Falling down and calling it an eye injury is skating the rules as much as Wilson/Seattle's bs.

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E) While walking off, he points with his right hand to his right eye in his helmet (53 second mark).

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Notice how when he first got hit and got up, he's wincing his left eye though.


I don't think you realize in all of this is purely the fact that they skirted the lines on some and broke a few rules and got no punishment while Wilson/Seattle got fined heavily for theirs.

here's thomas jones talking about concussions and how he felt during them:
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- out of body experience
- seeing stars immediately
- seeing black spots
- seeing two of you, I have to put you back together *squints his eyes* while talking about that
- I'm hearing you, but I'm not listening and I'm running the plays like..."and some of the best games ive had"
- "I've seen guys who are hit and get knocked out..."

Pretty much a description of mild to severe.