Just now, mikemack8 said:

I don’t think?

There's some urban legends about Mel Blount hits leading to deaths that were covered up, but I think that was just lionizing.

It's Terrifying.

There's no way to legislate danger out of the game, so you have to hope for the best.

I’m legitimately sick to my stomach - awful

3 minutes ago, SkippyX said:

Don't feel bad about either because we don't get AJ with CeeDee and Smith or Higgins and Smith.

... grumble grumble, Witten over LJ = SBs.

My biggest issue wasn’t them not trading up. I said then if Jefferson is there and you don’t love him then fine. However maximize the value of him being there and that pick cause teams behind you really wanted him. They didn’t want too cause they thought reagor would go before they’d be up again. I didn’t think reagor was some can’t miss prospect so i was fine if they missed out. 

1 minute ago, D-Shiznit said:

Has a player ever died on the field?

This happened years ago and he needed an emergency tracheotomy 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200396/Tragedy-football-field-player-collapses-stops-breathing.html

 

3 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

Oh no... Administering CPR on the field is BAD news.    Really bad news.

Can’t believe this…so horrible 

Terrifying. Reminds me of what happened to Christian Ericsson for any soccer fans 

 

Heart attack maybe? Stroke? Seemed more like that than a football injury….but I’m just completely speculating 

We're in the moment so overreactions are natural, but...

we might be seeing the beginning of the end for this sport.

18 minutes ago, SkippyX said:

Before the season and through about half the season it was schedule schedule schedule. The Eagles play in the best division and they faced the NFC North who has 3 teams alive for the playoffs going into week 18. Even the Steelers are still alive. The NFC East has the best record for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place teams. The division is +20 in win/loss.

10 of the Eagles 17 games were against teams that are still alive for the playoffs. (NY x2, Dallas x2, Min, Pit, Jax, Ten, GB, Det)

The 49ers faced 5 teams still alive and the only one above .500 annihilated them (KC) (Sea x2, Tampa, Miami)

But, the last two games have been more like pre-season football than gearing up for the playoffs. Bills and Bengals are playing at the playoff level intensity MNF. The only unit playing at that level on the Eagles is the Dline. I hope our young coaches have not misjudged how hard it can be to turn the engine back up to full throttle after the past two efforts. The hope is that they are prepping as if this is a do or die game and come out playing at playoff level intensity. If they are flat, our coaches have created the situation with their decisions in the past two games, IMO.

Heartbreaking situation in the Bills Bengals game.

If a player passes away on the field, do you keep playing the game? What does that say?

Just now, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

Unreal... please tell me this is just a bad dream.

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

My biggest issue wasn’t them not trading up. I said then if Jefferson is there and you don’t love him then fine. However maximize the value of him being there and that pick cause teams behind you really wanted him. They didn’t want too cause they thought reagor would go before they’d be up again. I didn’t think reagor was some can’t miss prospect so i was fine if they missed out. 

It was Howie's low point. I think he was worse than that 25 year old OL they drafted in round 1. Howie has done a bunch of good but Raegor was a z- pick.

Prayers to the player on his family.

I think that hit may have either caused a cardiac event or a rupture of the aorta.  Horrific

1 minute ago, D-Shiznit said:

We're in the moment so overreactions are natural, but...

we might be seeing the beginning of the end for this sport.

I’m no doctor but I don’t know that this one could have been prevented by rule changes

 

You can’t continue this game can you?

Headed to the hospital 

 

He's being loaded in the ambulance, so he's not dead. Thank God.

Don't know how Bills/Bengals players continue playing this game after that.

I would push this game to tomorrow night. You can't expect players to play after that.

1 minute ago, TorontoEagle said:

Heart attack maybe? Stroke? Seemed more like that than a football injury….but I’m just completely speculating 

It certainly seems like something unrelated to the play that just took place, but could have been exacerbated by it.  Who knows... 

 

Ambulance is off the field now.  Players back to their respective sidelines.   Can the game actually continue after something like this?   

Just now, D-Shiznit said:

He's being loaded in the ambulance, so he's not dead. Thank God.

I don’t think that means anything unfortunately