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Ryan Clark was especially good IMO- being put on the spot and speaking from experience and from the heart and staying in lanes to not speculate or say anything out of bounds. Thought SVP did a very good job as well

It was awkward to incredible it did not appear the league was in contact with ESPN at all during the time he was injured to when they were given the 'official statement', at the same time the PA announcer was. All they could do was say 'we are still waiting for word from the league' and be careful not to wrongly speculate- which basically meant they really couldn't offer any meaningful information on what was going on. Granted the league had its hands full trying to assess what was going on and make decisions, but it is crazy they did not appear to communicate at all with the network. They didn't have to give details/specifics, but could have offered some info along the way "we are currently looking into options" "our primary concern is the player" etc instead of the broadcast having no official messages/information to send at all. Failure to communicate indeed

One thing I noticed watching the replay was when Hamlin went down - the only player to see it completely from standing to collapse was Dane Jackson - who immediately ran over to him while other players either missed the fall entirely or turned only after he hit the ground. It was striking to see that it was Jackson - who is like a brother to Hamlin (grew up in same town and played at Pitt together) - who was the one person on the field to see it all and be the first one to his side.

I replayed it multiple times and it did not look like he got hit in the throat to me. Also - when he stood up, he did not put his hands to his throat at all, which is what you would assume would be an instinctive reaction if you were hit there and couldn't breathe

I imagine that Kelly and Nina are not prepared for 1M+ in sudden funds

I know there are some people here who do it for a living - but I can say the one time I saw real CPR being performed on someone it was brutal to see - I had to turn away. I can only imagine the shock of also seeing AED being used.

Would be nice for NFL to give their broadcast partner some official word

Emotions are likely pretty high in the locker room now - I imagine there are some who might be expressing that they don't want to go back out there at this point - really don't see how they play this

Yeah when it happened I googled 'hit to chest cardiac arrest' and that is what came up. Seems possible - when you see the play he did take a helmet to the chest - and if they did use AED then it also fits

That sounds ike a worst case scenario

Was thinking the same thing. And one of the 'reckless' throws was one he meant to just dump in the dirt and got away from him (a terrible throw for sure - but the intent was the oposite of reckless). And at least Rex stood up and said Burrow only has one less - and of course the graphic of most ints shows Josh with a bunch of terrible QBs, but stops at 13 so it doesn't show Burrow and Mahomes both with 12 smh The other thing I HATE is now the narrative Josh is 0-3 on the road in playoffs - when it's so misleading to count last year as a loss for him - just a garbage stat

Hope someone shows QB to Josh before game tonight

In contrast this would be Mac Jones with the same injury

Gonna be a long day

From your mouth to the refs' ears

Watching other games I usually think the other side - how screwed we'd be without Josh

From earlier in the thread - following results in Jets, Cheaters, and Fins all missing playoffs - met so far with early games today:

But if Steelers win it keeps a scenario alive that all of Dolphins, Pats, Jets don't make the playoffs

Almost as slappable as Mac Jones face

Regardless of scenarios - would be delicious for Cheaters to somehow blow this

Miami has quit this game and their season

coccyx 🤭

We might see if they love Burrow or Josh more tomorrow

If Panthers can hold on it will at least ease some of the pain of KC being handed their game

Earlier up thread is this scenario if you want Jets, Pats and Dolphins to all not make playoffs. So technically for that scanario can root for a tie or <gulp> Cheater win (just threw up in my mouth)