Week 4 other games thread

[Fritz]

I think the NFL and the Fins are trying to hide behind the scapegoating of the doctor. Yes, the doc should have been fired - that was gross negligence - but can the coach really claim ignorance here? Come on. "Gee, the doc said he was okay, so I thought his stumbling around was really no big deal."

I think, if I were a player, I would lose confidence in that coach. How can you trust that guy?

Jaire Alexander sits out because he's got a groin pull, but the Miami coach lets his QB play despite wobbling around like a bobble head?

[texaspackerbacker]

Players want to play, and I sure don't blame the coach for letting them. I also don't blame the doctor for letting Tua get away with it when he lied and said it was his back, not his head. Back in the day, this woulda been a big nothing. Remember Favre grabbing his helmet and going back in after likely getting a concussion. A few decades farther back, Hornung used to get this gruesome looking neck thing, then rest a while and bounce right back in. Aikman and Steve Young used to get their heads beat up on a regular basis - no long term problems. It's just recent times that they've had this stupid concussion protocol. The few players who did have problems, Jim McMahan at the top of the list, probably got their minds screwed up by other things - drugs.