Nfl must change playoff concussion protocol

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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501

I'm still sour about Jamaal Charles, then flowers getting knocked out of the Colts playoff game a few years ago. Regular season... Sure. But ending a season on a doctors fuzzy opinion? Yeah, not a fan of that at all.

I'd argue that concussion protocol can make playoff games even more dangerous. We saw with bountygate what lengths a team will go to to knock a player out. What incentive does a DC have to not coach dirty football they can get away with? It's easy to play super dirty without risk of targeting.

Maybe Wentz didn't want to go back in. We know that Jamaal Charles was super pissed years ago that he couldn't. What say you... Is this an nfl rule that needs to be re-thought?

The NFL is not going to change much about their concussion protocol. Billions are at stake.

Part of the problem is that there's no definitive way to assess the degree of injury to a brain and what level of risk is involved at the stadium, or the hospital for that matter. They don't have a piece of equipment that they can put your head in, look at a screen and say,"oh yeah, he can go back in; he's fine."

Concussions don't work like that.

And Wentz's wife was called down to the locker room after he left the field, so I'm thinking he had a fairly serious concussion and wasn't going to be allowed back on the field anyway.