WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Damar Hamlin Update, Joe Danneman 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.360 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. There's no perfect way 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:10.479 to cover a story like this, so I hope you'll 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:16.040 bear with us. We're conditioned to see situations on the 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.680 football field. You know, a normal injury, a player goes down, 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.400 Teammates gather, take a knee, Sometimes an ambulance comes on 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.360 the field. But when you see players, I being on 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.320 the sidelines before, if there was ever an injury, a 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.320 player's reaction would always tell me what that injury was, 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.240 how serious that injury was. And that's when I knew 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.519 it was a serious situation watching teammates, even the Bengals, 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.280 reacting to what happened last night with Damar Hamlin. We 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.760 have an update. This is the only update I have 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.040 and it came early early this morning, the Bills giving 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:55.800 an update on Damar Hamlin. He suffered at cardiac arrest 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.160 following the hit in the game versus the Bengals. His 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.040 heartbeat is restored on the field, transferred to the UC 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.960 Medical Center for further testing and treatment. Currently sedated, listed 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:12.760 in critical condition. Whatever information we give you will provide, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.080 you will provide a perspective. We will reach out to 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.080 the appropriate guests if we can get those guests on. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.520 But we will cover the totality of everything that happened 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:27.000 last night because it was a football matchup that we 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.760 had long been waiting for. It's the Bengals and the 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:34.839 Bills playoff ramification standalone game here and then what happened 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.520 in the first quarter changed all of that. But there's 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.680 still the fallout from this, obviously Damar Hamlin's health, and 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.640 then you have to start looking at is this game 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.880 going to be a tie? What do you do with 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.240 this in the standings? It is important and the NFL 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.720 has to look at this as well. We will show 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.080 the sensitivity that is needed, at least I hope we will. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:00.000 And if you're with us, however long you're with us, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:04.680 please understand we are covering sports today. You tune in 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.440 to listen to US covers Sports and there are other 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.000 sports to cover. There's also you know what this means 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.200 for the playoffs for these two teams? Can they play again? 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.960 Could they somehow play this game? It's so late in 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.720 the season, but there's a lot you know, it moves on. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:23.640 You went to work today, you might be going to 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.760 school today. Life goes on. And we'll try to approach 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.840 it that way. But when I started, when I watched, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.840 and I saw the hit and it didn't look like much. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.600 And all of a sudden, when Damar Hamlin got up 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.840 and then went back down, and then all of a sudden, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.040 I started to look at the reaction from the Buffalo 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.720 Bills players, and I thought, okay, did he suffer concussion? 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.680 Because we're so accustomed to that, it's like, okay, that's 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.440 the game. Then you take a knee, doctors come out, 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:03.399 ambulance comes out. But when they had to perform CPR, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:11.560 that's when it hit. And what happens in the TV 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:17.320 truck just so you know, they know the sensitivity of it, 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.679 and then you start to take the wide shots and 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.200 therefore you know you don't want to see the close 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.919 ups of what's going on. And then Joe and Troy 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.160 went to commercial break, and then they came back, and 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.320 then they went to commercial break. I knew we were 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.000 in trouble. Then I knew that there was something really 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:38.880 serious there. But you're watching this and they couldn't add anything, 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.920 And you know, you have all these players, they've never 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:48.160 experienced anything like this. Yes, players get injured, ambulance comes 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.040 on the field. I mean, how many times do we 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.280 see this? Somebody gets injured, they cart them off, give 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.320 us a thumbs up when you're like, okay, let's play 0:03:55.320 --> 0:04:00.840 football again. We're just conditioned for that. We're conditioned for. Well, 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.520 that's just a number down there got injured. He's got 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.280 a name on his back, and then we move on. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.400 That's what the sport is. The game starts, then the 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.440 game didn't start back up, and then you started to 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:21.039 wonder how long can you wait? Should you wait? Can 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.520 you cancel it? What role to the coaches play in this? 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:29.080 The captains play in this, the NFL in this, And yes, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.239 you do have a twenty four year old man who's 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.800 on the field on his way to the hospital and 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.720 we don't even know if he's going to survive. So 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.080 there was so much that's thrown in there, and trying 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.719 to sort through all of it makes sense of it. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.919 You know, that's the challenge trying to do this to 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.919 make sure that you're sensitive and fair, but also you 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.840 have to cover the totality of the NFL and everything 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.080 else that happened last night in sports, and we'll try 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.760 to do that. Phone calls always welcome h seven seven 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.800 three DP Show email address DP of Dan Patrick dot com, 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.080 Twitter handle at DP show. I've been doing this a 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.240 long time and I worked the night that Hank Gathers 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.240 passed away. Now that was not on national TV, and 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:22.240 it was the West Coast Conference tournament. Hank Gathers Loyal 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.119 and Merrymount. They were a wonderful, wonderful team, and Hank 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.800 was one of the great players in college basketball. But 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.040 he had hard issues. He had missed time earlier that year, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:37.279 got clearance to play, went up for a dunk, retreated, 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.240 collapsed and died. And I remember doing Sports Center, but 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.560 I didn't come on. I wasn't doing the game. It 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.120 was later that night and we're covering it for Sports 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:54.640 Center and we weren't quite sure what happened with Hank Gathers. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.800 There were still hope and then he passed away. But 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.599 you know, you're trying kind of figure out, and you know, 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.040 I could only imagine what it was like in that 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.440 truck for ESPN Monday Night Football with Joe and Troy, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.839 Lisa's psalters on the field, you know, going back to 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.680 the studio with Susie, I thought Booger McFarland did a 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.520 wonderful job. It's like, no, let's cancel, we're not playing football. 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:25.360 And he was right. But now what because we do 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:31.440 move on? We will move on. Eight seven seven three 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.599 DP Show email address DPA, dan Patrick dot com Twitter 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.440 handle it DP Show. We're not going to have a 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:41.440 poll question today, but we'll try to do the show 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.240 in the structure of what you've come to expect here 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.120 and we'll do our best any updates that we have 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.320 on tomorrow. Hamlin, Yeah, PAULI, yeah, I think what you 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.200 said there is really your condition. When we were sitting 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.160 there speaking for the danants watching the game, You're sitting 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.920 there and you're waiting for good news from Troy and 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:07.159 good news from fucking it just never happened. Um. We 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.040 do have sponsors to mention here, so once again stat 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.200 of the Day brought to you by Panini America, the 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:19.040 official trading cards of the DP Show and Mercedes. By 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.280 the way, we're giving away a sprinter van as we 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.080 did last year, and uh you can go to dan 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.680 Patrick dot com sign up for that. I mean, it 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:33.880 all seems so meaningless, but um, we'll do our best. Yeah. See, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.760 it's crazy, you just mentioned before about how we're sort 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:41.440 of preconditioned to certain responses like, uh, you know, all right, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.200 somebody's taken off on a card and I hope they're 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.680 not paralyzed. Third down, Yeah, you know, you just keep 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.040 going there. As soon as that hit happened last night 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.360 and I saw Jamar Hamlin hit the ground and his 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.000 hands went up, I was like, oh, fencing response. That's 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.600 It's crazy that that's just an even part of our lang. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.400 I'd never heard of that until I don't know, probably 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.640 to a yeah you know, but now it's just part 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.640 of like, oh, fencing response. It didn't even you know, 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.120 it registers as well. He's getting taken out of the game. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.200 It's just because it's the sport and what we've become 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.520 accustomed to, and it's just like, Okay, we move on 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.040 and now the game continues. But I want to know. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.440 I'm interested in knowing the role that the coaches and 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.800 the captains played last night, because I'm guessing from just 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.600 body language wise, and I do have a call into 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.760 a source on this that the coaches and the captains 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.360 got together and said we're not playing football. And I 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.000 don't know what the NFL's role is I don't know 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.160 what they said, because I know that Joe Bucks said 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.680 four times last night, Hey, they're going to get a 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.320 five minute warning to be able to come back. I 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.280 don't know who told Joe that. The NFL said they didn't. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.600 I get the feeling. And if it's if it's true 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.720 that the coaches and the players got together and said 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.240 we're not playing football, then that was the right move. 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:07.240 Some of the Bills players stayed in Cincinnati. But now 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:12.960 we move forward. Yes, he's in a hospital bed, critical condition. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.679 Now what happens players going back to Buffalo? They got 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.400 a game this weekend. What do you do with this game? 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.880 You got practice? I mean, once again, life goes on 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.960 for all of us today, no matter what has happened 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.160 in our life. We have to move forward with this. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.640 And the Buffalo Bills are gonna have to do this, 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.720 and the Cincinnati Bengals are gonna have to do this. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.320 And I don't know what the NFL decides. I don't 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.880 know what kind of contingency plans, but I'm thankful they 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:50.040 canceled the game because it was the right move. Yah. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.800 I think the league is in a tricky spot there 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:58.120 because right there are logistical things to think about, right, 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.200 certainly time of the season, which insensitive to say, but 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.599 it's it's the reality of it. And I mean it 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.080 took the it took the ambulance thirty minutes to leave, 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.960 you know, so once they kept coming back from commercial 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.440 break and the ambulance was still on the field, I 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.720 thought they were trying to save his life because they weren't. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.920 There was no reason to go to the hospital if 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.160 they weren't going to save his life or at least 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.640 get some vital size. That was the feeling I had, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.520 and especially the player reaction. Yes, that changed over time, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.280 where like you said, I mean, if we're preconditioned to 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.160 understand these things, the players definitely know, Okay, somebody's hurt, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.800 let's get down on one knee, let's get in their 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.160 positive thoughts for our brother, and then we'll get back 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.320 to the game. But as that changed and you saw 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.600 the reaction of players, you certainly got the idea pretty 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.720 quickly it was way more serious. Yeah. Yeah, right after 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.160 the ambulance left, it was it was very murky of 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.040 what was going to happen where they gotta start playing again. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.679 You saw Joe Burrow was out there throwing the ball 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.160 to stay loose or stay warmer for whatever reason. Then 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.360 Zach Taylor, the head coach of the Bengals, walked over 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.560 to the other sidelines, which I've never seen before during 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.120 a football game or any circumstances, and they start talking 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.800 and covering their mouths, and You're like, Okay, they're deciding 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.720 what's going to happen here or what, you know, at 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.360 least for the next twenty minutes, what they're gonna do 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.720 with their team. Moments after that, they went to the 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.200 locker rooms, and I'm wondering if the NFL said, you know, hey, 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.840 get ready, we're going to resume this game, and maybe 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.320 the coaches in the captain said no, we're not playing, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.080 And if that's the case, I'm glad because it was 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.040 the right call. There was there was no there was 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.400 no need to be thinking about football in that moment 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:38.320 last time. So once again the update this is according 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:43.720 to the Buffalo Bills that Damarrow Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest, 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:48.280 heartbeat restored on the field, and he's at the UC 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:54.560 Medical Center undergoing further testing and treatment. He is sedated 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:59.040 and listed in critical condition. There were a lot of 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.280 people doing a lot of eight work last night. One 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.480 was Joe Daneman. He is the sports director at Fox 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.800 nineteen in Cincinnati. He was on the field and he 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.559 was behind the scenes covering this, tweeting about it, and 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.280 he'll join us coming up next. We'll take a break 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:21.880 back after this. 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Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.920 Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.920 until noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.880 Radio and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.720 at FSR or stream us live on the Peacock app. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:43.160 I mentioned working the night that Hank Gathers collapsed and 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.640 passed away with a loyal amount Merrymount basketball game. They 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:52.080 didn't have a defibrillator there. Now it's in every basketball 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.480 arena that was thirty two years ago that that happened, 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.560 and a lot of medical personnel on the field last 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.760 night did a wonderful job and saved his life or 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:07.079 at least prolonged his life. And there are twenty close 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:12.600 to twenty medical personnel that were attending to him in 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:18.320 that moment, and the NFL having their procedure worked last night, 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.240 and you know, to be in that moment administering CPR, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.720 and it also brought to mind Chuck Hughes was a 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:32.240 Detroit Lions, a wide receiver, tight end, and I think 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:37.480 he died on the field and might have been in 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.640 the end zone. But I just I, you know, it 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.880 was kind of foggy last night as I'm just thinking, 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.240 oh my God, like what is going on, and I 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.520 immediately thought of that night a Hank Gathers, and then 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.640 I thought Chuck Hughes back in nineteen seventy for the 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:56.760 Detroit Lions. Also, Carson Palmer said something. This is a 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:03.080 roundtable discussion that was with Carson Palmer, Ben Roethlisberger, Tony Romo, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:07.200 Matt Ryan, Aaron Rodgers. This is I think two thousand 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.960 and nine. Peter King had a Monday Morning Quarterback column 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:16.560 and Carson Palmer says, guys are getting so big, so fast, 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.120 so explosive. The game is so violent, and now that 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.480 they're cutting out the wedge deal on kickoff returns, these 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.760 guys are coming free and at some point somebody's going 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:31.760 to die in football. That's Carson Palmer, two thousand and nine. 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.080 There were a lot of people doing a lot of 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:38.000 great work last night covering this, and one is the 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.560 sports director for Fox nineteen Joe Daniman who joins us now, Joe, 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.720 thanks for joining us. I know you're short on sleep, 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:49.680 but where were you when this tackle took place? So, Dan, 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.280 I was on the sideline near the end zone. And 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:56.240 when the tackle took place, you mentioned it the medical 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.560 stats for the two teams. That was what was most 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.280 alarming to me was the urgency what they hit the field, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:05.360 and you know, we often see injuries on the field, 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.960 but you don't see this kind of urgency from medical stamps. 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.680 The way they ran to mar the way they ripped 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.239 open the medical equipment that really started working on him immediately. 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.680 From my advantage point, I could see them doing chess 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.480 compressions and at that point that's when you started to 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.880 see the teams gathered around him and you started to 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:26.280 lose your vantage point to that. But they also administered 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.760 an ad they shocked him twice on the field. You 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.360 talked about the process the NFL has and having aeeds 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.840 on the field there, and that was part of the 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.120 process they used. But was striking to me was the 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.400 reaction from the players. And look, whenever we see someone 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.280 with a head injury or a spinal injury in the NFL, 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.240 and that's part of the game. We understand that we 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.440 wait for some kind of positivity from the player or 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.640 the players around them, maybe a thumbs up. We're all 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.240 waiting for that kind of moment. When you saw players 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.040 turn away and cover their face with their jerseys or 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.600 cover their face with their hands, you knew right then 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.920 this was different in something we had never experienced before. Yeah, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.399 I'd mentioned that having been on the sidelines for a 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.119 variety of things. I usually look at the players. The 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.000 players will tell you if a player is seriously hurt, 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.360 and that's when I knew that this was really really serious. 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.240 When did you start to get a sense of what 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.480 was going to happen with the game itself? Once they 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.560 told the teams to go inside, and they had not 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.520 yet postponed at that point, they had suspended that you 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.000 could see the reaction from the players that this was 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.320 not a team equipped emotionally to go back on a 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.200 field and play a football game within a few minutes, 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.560 and to kind of give you an idea what was happening. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.960 As the players walk back into the tunnel dan towards 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.639 their locker room, they could still see the ambulance that 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.600 was waiting in the parking A lot because they were 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.800 waiting for DeMar's mother to make it down from the 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.359 stands to ride with him to the University of Cincinnati 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.760 Medical Center, so they could still see the ambulance he 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.280 was in at the end of the tunnel before it left, 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.080 and you could just tell from the looks on the 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.439 faces and the emotion from the players were not going 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.119 to play this game. Within a matter of minute, Zach Taylor, 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.960 the Bengals head coach, came over to their locker room 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.679 to meet with Sean McDermott. The referees were there, and 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.480 we had a good clue then that there was no 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.840 way they were playing this game at that point. Did 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.600 you have any idea that who was making this decision, 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.920 because there's conflicting reports of the teams were told you 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.600 got five minutes. Joe Buck said this, I think four 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.359 times on the broadcast. The NFL Troy Vincent said, no, 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.760 that was not the case. I didn't know what role 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.280 the coaches the captains played in this. Can you sort 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.480 any of that out for us? As far as what 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.440 the NFL in their involvement, I can't. I can tell 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.080 you the referees, Zach Taylor, Sean McDermott and members of 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.679 the front office with the Buffalo Bills were outside of 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.919 the Bills locker room discussing this pretty quickly after the 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.639 announcement of the suspension of the games. So to me, 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.360 that was a signal that they were there amongst each 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.919 other talking about this. Sean McDermott didn't last long in 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.400 that meeting. He was out there very briefly and then 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.720 he went back inside the locker room be with his team. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.639 But Zach Taylor other members of the Bengals coaching staff 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:09.760 were there with the referees discussing obviously deciding to postpone 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:12.680 this game. But as far as the NFL's involvement in it, 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.400 from where I was and my advantage point, I don't 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.760 know how much involvement they had at that point, how 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:22.479 much confusion was going on, not much, quite honestly, because 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.240 there was. To me, the confusion was why why was 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.560 the ambulance still in the parking lot. Look, we had 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.159 the player on the field for for nine minutes with 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.160 the chess compressions and the AEED and the players having 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.000 to watch this, and a lot of times Daniel c 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:37.840 guys go up to a player as they're leaving a 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.199 field or being lifted into an ambulance or lifted up 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:42.920 onto a stretcher. Go up there and tap him and 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:44.879 tap him up and make sure he's okay and they 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.679 know they have his support. Those guys were told to 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.680 stay back, so that was different right there. But once 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:52.960 they'd announced it that the suspension of the game was 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.600 going to happen, it was very organized. The guys went 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.360 back into the locker room. Both teams stayed in their 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.160 locker rooms for a long time. It wasn't until they 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.440 announced the actual postponement of the game that we saw 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:06.640 some of the Bengals players then make their way from 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.000 the Bengals locker room down to the Bills locker room. 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.120 That included team captains. That included Joe Burrow who made 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:13.960 his way to the Bills locker room. In fact, we 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.160 saw Josh Allen then go to the Bengals locker room 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.359 as well to meet with some of their players. Because 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.840 the Bills stayed in Cincinnati at Paid Court Stadium for 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:22.560 a long time. I mean this happened in the nine 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.280 o'clock hour, they didn't leave. The buses didn't leave the 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.760 stadium until twelve thirty, so those guys were there for 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.280 a long time just to be around each other, to 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:32.439 comfort each other in any way they could, And I 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.520 think you see this fraternity of football players right where. Look, 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.080 I'm sure there are Bengals players who played with him 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.639 at some point, played against him, or with him at 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.280 some point in the pre drad process. So I'm sure 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:45.680 a lot of guys in the Bangles locker room knew him. 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:47.800 Not only the Bills were feeling this, but the Bengals 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:51.040 players as well. Any sense of how many Buffalo Bills 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:55.000 players went to the hospital, No, I know Stefan Diggs 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.440 was the one player that was the high profile player 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.800 that did go there. As far as outside of him, 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:02.440 I don't know of other players that went to the hospital. 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:06.639 Any idea or the Bengals have any idea of an 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:10.679 update on what's going to happen with the possibility of 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:13.880 playing this game or how does it end. Yeah, that's 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:16.440 a great question. That's something right now that I've been 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.199 told by the team will be handled by the league 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.240 at this point. Obviously, it's a very unique situation because 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.240 we all understood and that's the weird part about this 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:27.560 dam was this was supposed to be the showcase of 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.240 everything that's going great right here in Cincinnati now with 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:33.159 this football team playing great football, the Bills being the 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.320 team that the Bengals are competing with trying to get 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:37.720 that number one seed. So you have this joy and 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:40.960 excitement of what's happening on Monday night football, and then 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:45.040 this happens, and it's this emotional dichotomy of joy and 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:48.840 excitement to sadness and curiosity of what's happening. But as 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:50.680 far as what's going to happen with the game, at 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.520 this point, we have not been given any information from 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.000 the Cincinnati Bengals what they're going to do with this 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.840 game against the Bills. Do you think the Bengals expect 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.800 the Bengals will show up for practice where they or 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:04.080 it was Tuesday going to be an off day for them. 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:06.920 Tuesday's a dark day for the Bengals. They don't show 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:09.720 up for practice today and there was no scheduled media 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.439 availability today. They were supposed to be back in the 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:16.840 building tomorrow for practice for normal media availability that will 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:19.719