It seems some aren’t satisfied Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford will play past the continuing season.
After Stafford was evaluated for a concussion for the second time this month throughout Sunday’s 27-20 loss on the New Orleans Saints that dropped the Rams to 3-7 on the marketing campaign, NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport recommended throughout an look on “The Pat McAfee Present” that the 34-year-old signal-caller might journey off into the sundown of retirement sooner relatively than later.
Stafford initially entered the concussion protocol two days after the Rams fell to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Nov. 6 and missed what grew to become the Week 10 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Kelly Stafford, Matthew’s spouse, admitted earlier than the Arizona sport to having critical issues about her husband’s well being, however he was in the end cleared to play at New Orleans forward of this previous weekend.
Whereas Stafford went to the locker room within the second half of Sunday’s defeat, ESPN’s Sarah Barshop and Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Occasions famous that the veteran hadn’t but entered the concussion protocol once more however was nonetheless being evaluated for a head harm as of Monday afternoon native time. Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio reported Sunday night that the NFL Gamers Affiliation is “monitoring” Stafford’s scenario and standing.
“Not often if ever is a day-after analysis needed to find out whether or not a participant is or isn’t within the protocol,” Florio defined at the moment. “And if there’s any doubt, why not simply put him within the protocol and require him to progress by the assorted phases?”
Stafford has earned a small fortune from NFL contracts, alone, and in addition a championship ring serving to the Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals in Tremendous Bowl LVI this previous February. His long-term future apart, logic suggests he in all probability will probably be a spectator for this coming Sunday’s sport on the 8-2 Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
