Buffalo Bills Damar Hamlin
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And half of that hour was Hamlin being treated on the field.
I kind of agree with him. In high school a bunch of us in town formed an informal no pad tackle football league. We'd play on Saturday afternoons (after playing our normal padded High School Football the night before). What you see is more tackling and breaking down and not as much launching for a kill shot.
Accidents still happen. We had a kid break his collar bone when he layed out to catch a pass, with pads on he probably wouldn't have broke it.
Agree. You can teach it all you want, but when the adrenaline is following and you are running as fast as you can it's not always practical unfortunately.
Hindsight and Monday morning QBing is always easy. But looking back at last night, outside of the whole 5 min restart thing (which now it sounds like that was more standard procedure than anyone saying "we are restarting this game in 5 mins"), I think both teams, officials, coaches, broadcasters, and the ESPN studio handled this as best as they possibly could. Especially ESPN (who I have bashed repeatedly) - they didn't show the replay or him getting CPR on the field, etc. Well done by all involved in an unprecedented, tough situation.
I dont disagree with you, but what happened last night wasn't going to be avoided by tackling with a shoulder- in fact, I think Tee Higgins shoulder ran into the chest of Hamlin
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I also thought that ESPN saved the day by having Ryan Clark on there, who could totally relate. I felt bad for all the commentators trying to come up with the right words to say at a time where it's impossible for the right words.
I also thought Ryan Clark and SVP did a really good job. Not going all hot take and SVP repeatedly saying we are just trying to report on what we know.
Ryan Clark was great last night. Thoughtful, compassionate, and articulate.
Pete Carroll has been a big proponent of teaching rugby style tackling. The Seahawks put out some videos back in 2014 on the technique and teaching it for coaches at all levels to use.
The fact a medical Doctor even has to address bullet point number 2 is an indication how far this society has fallen when that's your first thought.
He really was, and him being able to speak as both someone who went through a life threatening issue on the field and being there for another with Shazier really helped to paint a picture of what thoughts and emotions were going through that locker room.
As a note, it is crazy that ESPN had the perfect person right there in DC ready to go on set with SVP for something so unexpected.
As a Bills fan that's been cheering them on for a decade longer than Damar has even been on this planet, I can't shake this overwhelmingly heavy feeling. I still feel sick and incredibly emotional. I hope like hell he's in the backfield for the start of the 2023/24 season.
Agree with having to call it out but the internet is not real life. I would wager that a VERY low % of the US population was thinking vaccine. Vocal minorities are the loudest voices on social media as they drive engagement and user interactions on the platforms. That is likely why he called it out in the video.
Are you taking this thread down this road again??? Thought you learned last night when you went there. Please stop trying to cave it.
Joe Buck came back after the second commercial break and said Hamlin was surrounded by so many players the cameras could not get video of the CPR administration and he acknowledged that not showing the video was the right thing to do anyways.
I find hope from the quick reaction and treatment. Like a few years back when the player was basically saved from paralysis because the doctors moved so quickly.
If I remember correctly that was a Bills player too?
Tough game played by people. Real people with families and goals and dreams.
There were a couple that would fire things back up once it calmed down, so it wasn't just him. This is about Hamlin, not starting arguments about people's agendas.
