There was no medical indication, from all resources, that there was anything regarding the head. We're talking about high-level football conversations about progressions and defenses and recalling stuff from two weeks previous and then him having to reiterate a 15-word play call. I'm in steady communication with this guy day-in and day-out. So when I am talking about deciding whether or not to play, the only thing that would keep me from playing him would be something going against medical advice that would be just completely abstract on top of all that.
I take that very serious and no one else in the building strays from that. This is a player-friendly organization that I make it very clear from the onset that my job as a coach is here for the players. I have 100 percent conviction in our process regarding our players. So in terms of deciding whether or not to play a guy on a Thursday night game, I was concerned about his lower back and his ankle, and putting him in harm's way. He was evaluated and then cleared by several layers of medical professionals, who – I don't pretend to be one – but those people, the collection of them, cleared him of any head injury whatsoever. That's what we brought him into the tent for or brought him inside for. What I was kind of referring to in terms of not changing anything that I'd do was because the whole process for what happened on the Bills game was he was evaluated for a head injury immediately. Now that you've had time to reflect, is there anything either you would have done differently or you wish any of the medical personnel would have done differently dating back to the original hit on Sunday against the Bills?) – "I appreciate all the concern, really just because I care about the guy and I appreciate all of the concern for the individual. (Last night, when you were asked if you would do anything differently, you said, 'No chance,' pretty much.
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