Newton was hit in the head several times during Thursday night’s game, including one hit that the National Football League has since admitted should have resulted in a penalty on Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall. “Start thinking about the next one”, said Rivera, whose team plays San Francisco on September 18. “It’s kind of like the National Basketball Association used to allow guys to get away with that against Shaquille O’Neal because of his size”, Davis told the paper. I think I heard Ray Lewis say you have guys of all sizes and they’re falling to the ground, if Cam’s moving, you never know, these angles, it’s hard to tell these angles. “He goes to shoot a little layup and gets hacked and hammered and they don’t call it”.
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The league protocol outlines additional triggers under which a player should be evaluated immediately, including a “big hit that is reasonably expected to give rise to a concussion”.
Rivera added he would, “love to see him start getting some of that veteran favoritism, that’d be cool”.
Newton, who has passed four concussion tests since the game ended, according to reports, didn’t criticize the officials or the Broncos.
By USA Today’s count, this was one of four helmet-to-helmet hits the Broncos defense put on Newton throughout the game-only one of which was flagged.
That Newton is bigger and more mobile, and often takes more hits than an average quarterback, should not mean he is not protected by the NFL’s rules.
Even though one violently flagrant head hunting foul did finally draw a flag, there still was no remorse from the Broncos.
The NFL doesn’t disagree with Rivera.
“If there is an opportunity to go back to review things as far as big hits to the quarterback, hits to the helmet, I think that would be important”, Rivera said, suggesting that the ability to go to replay review in some instance might be warranted.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to comment publicly. The hit: Brandon Marshall’s third quarter shot on Newton.
On second-and-10 from the Carolina 47, Newton rolled out to his left and released a pass into the flat as he was being tackled and linebacker Shaquil Barrett draped around his ankles.
That’s what happened Thursday night, but it somehow got buried in the avalanche of talk about the hits on Newton. “We played in a lot of big games past year against a lot of great teams, so I tried to simulate that feeling as much as I could”, Siemian said.
“There was communication between medical personnel on the Carolina sideline, including the unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant, and the two independent certified athletic trainer spotters in the booth”.
“I’m beginning to question the consistency of how games are being called – and who they would call this particular play against versus this particular player”, Newton’s father told ESPN’s Jim Trotter in an interview.
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Rivera didn’t see a need for his exit either.
