The National Football League really must love putting their Public Relations coordinator to work.
There were three major issues with the Philadelphia Eagles versus Washington Commanders Thursday Night Football game that proposes such concern for the league’s performative player safety activism.
The first issue comes early in the game, when a commanders player sacked quarterback Jalen Hurts, falling on top of him and causing Hurts to slam his helmet on the turf.
The issue with that is Hurts was not immediately evaluated for a concussion. For a league notorious for its own concussion controversy, why would they continue to fail players’ health 10 years later?
A following play made matters look even more concerning when Hurts threw the football away, with receiver A.J. Brown in his line of sight.
The next (of many) comes when Commanders linebacker Frankie Luvu grabbed the bottom of Eagles wide receiver Devonta Smith’s helmet and yanked it.
The referee threw the flag, rightfully, and after a discussion and replay showing that Luvu clearly grabbed the area of the helmet that is considered facemask penalty territory, the referee picked up the flag.
The eye company, LASIK, is even offering free LASIK for NFL referees. You know it’s bad when a company that has nothing to do with football comes at the NFL.
Other fans and media alike calling out NFL’s Officiating crew for the bad jobs – but there’s a bigger issue.
When is the NFL going to actually start caring about its players? We get commissioner Roger Goodell is a money-hungry, no-good, unfavored owner, but can’t fans get some sort of hope that their favorite team members won’t be badly injured?
It’s unclear whether or not Jalen Hurts is actually okay to play, because it’s safe to assume you can stop thinking the NFL cares about player safety.
First & Jenn 
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