NFL NFLPA investigating Tom Savage concussion

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NFL, NFLPA investigating Tom Savage concu sion Published: Dec 11, 2017 at 03:09 AM Around The NFL Podcast Co-Host coach Bill O'Brien believes his team did right by quarterback . One day after the starting pa ser was in a lo s to the , O'Brien told reporters that Houston's medical staff initially cleared Savage to return before the coach asked them to examine him a second time. Savage left Sunday's 26-16 lo s to San Francisco in the second quarter following a crushing blow by edge rusher . The hit left Savage shaking on the ground -- a disturbing sight caught on video -- but the quarterback briefly returned to the field before leaving for good. "I Quinndary Weatherspoon Jersey figured he got hit, didn't know he got hit, very difficult from where I'm standing to even see he got it. ," O'Brien said Monday, per the Houston Chronicle. "With benefit of the video, I the player back in the game and I don't think trainer Geoff Kaplan would have let Tom back in the game." NFL spokesperson Joe Lockhart told reporters during a Monday conference call that the league has initiated a joint investigation with the NFL Players A sociation into the handling of Savage's concu sion. "That work started yesterday afternoon and continued into this morning but I think we'll withhold further comments until we've had a chance to conduct the review and again expediential with the NFL," said Lockhart. "I say that we believe very strongly that the protocol is an important part of our overall effort on protecting our players health and safety. But we do understand that it is Dominique Wilkins Jersey our obligation to look at where the protocol may not have been followed, and just as importantly to see where the protocol can be improved. That's an ongoing effort." O'Brien went out his way to defend his handling of the injury, along with the team's, saying: "At no point in my coaching career, . In this case, I'm not pa sing the buck." Said O'Brien: "At no point in time in my coaching career, in my 25 years of coaching, I've been at Brown University, I've been at Georgia Tech, I've been at Duke, I've been at the University of Maryland, I've been the head coach at Penn State and I've been the head coach here, at no point in time is there anything more important to me than the safety of our players. I love our players and I care about them and I cannot stand when players get injured. Again with benefit of seeing the video that people are seeing, I would have never put him back in the game." Savage to defend his coach: "I appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers, I'm doing fine. Even though I cannot speak to media due to the protocol I will say this, nobody Dennis Rodman Jersey cares more about his players than OB." O'Brien said that he backup to start Sunday against the in place of Savage, which comes as no surprise after the punishment Houston's starter took Sunday. This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be mi sing content or contain faulty links. Please use the Contact Us link in our site footer to report an i sue.
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