NFL GDT: Week 17

[Kcoyote3]

These videos they keep showing of the players. Burrow crouched down, eyes wide, looking like he’s seen a ghost. Theyre literally watching a man being given life saving medical care and not knowing how it is going to end up. For almost TEN minutes straight.

and the league told the refs to tell them they had five minutes.

Absolute joke for them to say 5 minutes. Watching Joe Burrow try to warm up with that vacant stare while throwing the football was the saddest thing

 

[GKJ]

NFL Network has yet to go live. They're showing Franco Harris: A Football Life

 

[DoyleG]

NFL Network has yet to go live. They're showing Franco Harris: A Football Life

They already did. They talked with the on site reporter they have and also had Ian Rapoport on as well.

The host stated they would come back if there were any more developments.

 

[Ace]

Bengals coaches, players and fans showed to be wonderful people tonight.

 

[DoyleG]

Absolute joke for them to say 5 minutes. Watching Joe Burrow try to warm up with that vacant stare while throwing the football was the saddest thing

They refs follow the guidebooks that are given to them by the league.

It will never cover everything and making decisions outside that requires multiple parties (they also would've needed the NFLPA's support to postpone the game).

 

[Adele Dazeem]

Just a question about CPR since it sounds like they were treating him with it for so long:

Is there a possibility of brain damage, or does CPR do enough for getting oxygen to the brain?

Anyways, obviously I hope he pulls through and kudos for the coaches/players calling it for the night.

CPR is done until an AED is used to reset the heart's electrical rhythm .

 

[Ace]

Good on Scott Van Pelt to continue to not let the NFL off the hook for trying to play this game until the coaches told them to f*** off

 

[GKJ]

Sounds like no update in condition tonight from the hospital.

 

[Hammettf2b]

The tweet about them flying back home doesn't actually mean they left already, right?

Nope. They are actually still at the stadium according to ESPN

 

[PeteWorrell]

Is the game cancelled yet? There is no way these players are finishing the game tonight.

 

[misterchainsaw]

Is the game cancelled yet? There is no way these players are finishing the game tonight.

Suspended, yes.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Is the game cancelled yet? There is no way these players are finishing the game tonight.

Yeah, and apparently they had to refuse to play on both ends because the NFL was like BUT MAH REVENUE.

 

[StreetHawk]

If someone told the nfl Office that cpr was performed that was going to be the end of the game tonight.

I get that it’s week 17 and the end of the season is looming but someone needing cpr performed on them means it’s serious.

Going to be a logistical task with TV agreements to get the regular season finished and WC weeks games done as scheduled.

 

[Terry Yake]

props to the ESPN crew for the way they handled the situation when the game had been suspended and we were waiting on updates

 

[misterchainsaw]

props to the ESPN crew for the way they handled the situation when the game had been suspended and we were waiting on updates

They were very, very good in an extremely difficult situation.

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

Yeah, and apparently they had to refuse to play on both ends because the NFL was like BUT MAH REVENUE.

Are you saying the NFL had to refund money?

 

[GKJ]

I think the 5-minute thing came from the refs, who likely needed to go into contact with Park Avenue to determine the next steps. Nothing more.

 

[Ace]

Having trained medical personal seconds away has to give him the best shot he would have had.

Hope that’s the case

 

[Blitzkrug]

Funny enough that was one of the first things i thought of watching the game. Being one of the unlucky souls who watched the PPV live where Hart died, the mood/tone after Hamlin got hurt was painfully similar. Football players, usually stone faced and dialed in looking shellshocked or inconsolable, the general eerie silence from the crowd, talking heads/announcers trying their best to do their job despite what they just saw.

Fortunately, the NFL made the right call canning the game for the night. WWE did not and their performers were forced to go on live TV, some of them visibly shaken/in tears. Perhaps worse was the fact the part of the ring where Hart hit was still busted and bloody.

Hopefully Hamlin's story has a better ending.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

Bengals coaches, players and fans showed to be wonderful people tonight.

I get this sentiment but they did the bare minimum as humans, the NFL almost f***ed it up if it wasn't for them which I thank them for standing up to the league.

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

I think the 5-minute thing came from the refs, who likely needed to go into contact with Park Avenue to determine the next steps. Nothing more.

Lmao, if you think the refs decided that on spot then I got a bridge to sell you. Clearly the league wanted the game to go on until Taylor/McDermott/players said f*** that.

 

[hatterson]

Half an hour ago it was at $700k donated, it's already almost $915k

Apparently it’s over $3 million now.

Funny enough that was one of the first things i thought of watching the game. Being one of the unlucky souls who watched the PPV live where Hart died, the mood/tone after Hamlin got hurt was painfully similar. Football players, usually stone faced and dialed in looking shellshocked or inconsolable, the general eerie silence from the crowd, talking heads/announcers trying their best to do their job despite what they just saw.

Fortunately, the NFL made the right call canning the game for the night. WWE did not and their performers were forced to go on live TV, some of them visibly shaken/in tears. Perhaps worse was the fact the part of the ring where Hart hit was still busted and bloody.

Hopefully Hamlin's story has a better ending.

I think Allen’s face/reaction said the most to me.

He wasn’t a guy who was a little shaken up by an injury, he was a guy who was in total shock at what he had just seen. I remember a shot of him sitting on the bench and you could tell that football wasn’t even remotely on his mind.

Obviously the scenes reminded me of the Christian Eriksen situation a couple years ago and that game too was rightly postponed.

 

[Know Your Enemy]

Was a defibrillator used? And how long did it take to get used?

 

[NJDevs26]

Apparently it’s over $3 million now.


I think Allen’s face/reaction said the most to me.

He wasn’t a guy who was a little shaken up he an injury, he was a guy who was in total shock at what he had just seen. I remember a shot of him sitting on the bench and you could tell that football wasn’t even remotely on his mind.

Obviously the scenes reminded me of the Christian Eriksen situation a couple years ago and that game too was rightly postponed.

Not really, UEFA/FIFA made Denmark play the rest of the game like three hours later, albeit after his condition had somewhat stabilized.

 

[hatterson]

Not really, UEFA/FIFA made Denmark play the rest of the game like three hours later, albeit after his condition had somewhat stabilized.

Was just posting this in the other thread about schedules, but I think the only reason the Denmark game was able to resume that quickly was because Eriksen was awake, alert, and his recovery (at least on the human level) had a clear path. I can’t imagine the team would have played when they did if he was in a medically induced coma. Instead he was conscious as he left the stadium and was able to talk to his teammates shortly after.

The same clearly isn’t true for Hamlin which is why the postponement is for (at least) a day or two instead of only a few hours.