Damar Hamlin

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but the ESPN team did a remarkable job under challenging circumstances. Joe Buck, partnered with Troy Aikman, explained how their task shifted from calling the game to reporting on a news story. Lisa Salters did some emotional and compelling reporting about what it was like to be in the stadium. The studio crew of Suzy Kolber, Booger McFarland, and Adam Schefter had perhaps the toughest job trying to find the right words to make sense of what was happening without knowing any facts. After the game, Ryan Clark, working with Scott Van Pelt, was emotional, powerful, and insightful. I was in awe of all of them, but Clark in particular.

What I’ve seen from Ryan Clark after the fact was amazing. He has personal experience with this from when he collapsed while playing in Denver - he has sickle cell and had trouble with the altitude. Plus he was the safety on the other side of Sean Taylor when Taylor was murdered.

I have NEVER liked Joe Buck but good on him if he and Aikman did a good job with this. I wasn’t watching live.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a few friends (fellow sports moms) who were posting that their kids are tough and would have kept playing after that.

Yikes. People are messed up.

It's kind of hard to resume play after having been clinically dead for several minutes. jeez. what is wrong with people

They said if their kids were in Josh Allen's shoes, they would have gone back out because they raised their kids to be fighters and winners.

I would cease all friendship with monsters like these. Holy cow, that's next level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but the ESPN team did a remarkable job under challenging circumstances. Joe Buck, partnered with Troy Aikman, explained how their task shifted from calling the game to reporting on a news story. Lisa Salters did some emotional and compelling reporting about what it was like to be in the stadium. The studio crew of Suzy Kolber, Booger McFarland, and Adam Schefter had perhaps the toughest job trying to find the right words to make sense of what was happening without knowing any facts. After the game, Ryan Clark, working with Scott Van Pelt, was emotional, powerful, and insightful. I was in awe of all of them, but Clark in particular.

What I’ve seen from Ryan Clark after the fact was amazing. He has personal experience with this from when he collapsed while playing in Denver - he has sickle cell and had trouble with the altitude. Plus he was the safety on the other side of Sean Taylor when Taylor was murdered.

I have NEVER liked Joe Buck but good on him if he and Aikman did a good job with this. I wasn’t watching live.

I posted earlier that Joe Buck kept saying, "who cares" when it came to game stuff. Literally he was like, I can't believe I even have to say who cares, but who cares. It was the right tone. Everyone had the right tone and I agree the entire crew did a great job reporting on this. I said to my husband that they aren't reporters in the sense that they can go on the fly like this and that I didn't envy their position. Every time one set tossed it to another you could sort of sense their "oh crap" feelings, like now we have to talk about this and we don't want to. Suzy Kolber literally looked like she was going to cry or vomit every time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a few friends (fellow sports moms) who were posting that their kids are tough and would have kept playing after that.

Yikes. People are messed up.

It's kind of hard to resume play after having been clinically dead for several minutes. jeez. what is wrong with people

They said if their kids were in Josh Allen's shoes, they would have gone back out because they raised their kids to be fighters and winners.

I hope these people aren’t really your friends. They sound like total a33holes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but the ESPN team did a remarkable job under challenging circumstances. Joe Buck, partnered with Troy Aikman, explained how their task shifted from calling the game to reporting on a news story. Lisa Salters did some emotional and compelling reporting about what it was like to be in the stadium. The studio crew of Suzy Kolber, Booger McFarland, and Adam Schefter had perhaps the toughest job trying to find the right words to make sense of what was happening without knowing any facts. After the game, Ryan Clark, working with Scott Van Pelt, was emotional, powerful, and insightful. I was in awe of all of them, but Clark in particular.

Really? I thought they did a terrible job.

Nothing but a lot of stammering and deer in the headlights look.

Would have been great to have up a graphic with some basic info about him.
They did eventually do this… what 2 hours later.

How about a phoner or Zoom with a medical expert.
Your questions could be what has caused NFL players to collapse in the past? Why would someone need CPR and explain CPR? Why would you use an AED? How is this different from CPR? What is a Level 1 Trauma Center? Does the NFL have emergency protocols?
These are pretty basic questions without giving specific medical information or outcomes, but helps keep the story in perspective.

The timeline graphic was awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but the ESPN team did a remarkable job under challenging circumstances. Joe Buck, partnered with Troy Aikman, explained how their task shifted from calling the game to reporting on a news story. Lisa Salters did some emotional and compelling reporting about what it was like to be in the stadium. The studio crew of Suzy Kolber, Booger McFarland, and Adam Schefter had perhaps the toughest job trying to find the right words to make sense of what was happening without knowing any facts. After the game, Ryan Clark, working with Scott Van Pelt, was emotional, powerful, and insightful. I was in awe of all of them, but Clark in particular.

Really? I thought they did a terrible job.

Nothing but a lot of stammering and deer in the headlights look.

Would have been great to have up a graphic with some basic info about him.
They did eventually do this… what 2 hours later.

How about a phoner or Zoom with a medical expert.
Your questions could be what has caused NFL players to collapse in the past? Why would someone need CPR and explain CPR? Why would you use an AED? How is this different from CPR? What is a Level 1 Trauma Center? Does the NFL have emergency protocols?
These are pretty basic questions without giving specific medical information or outcomes, but helps keep the story in perspective.

The timeline graphic was awful.

Ryan Clark’s interview was very good, human and emotional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but the ESPN team did a remarkable job under challenging circumstances. Joe Buck, partnered with Troy Aikman, explained how their task shifted from calling the game to reporting on a news story. Lisa Salters did some emotional and compelling reporting about what it was like to be in the stadium. The studio crew of Suzy Kolber, Booger McFarland, and Adam Schefter had perhaps the toughest job trying to find the right words to make sense of what was happening without knowing any facts. After the game, Ryan Clark, working with Scott Van Pelt, was emotional, powerful, and insightful. I was in awe of all of them, but Clark in particular.

What I’ve seen from Ryan Clark after the fact was amazing. He has personal experience with this from when he collapsed while playing in Denver - he has sickle cell and had trouble with the altitude. Plus he was the safety on the other side of Sean Taylor when Taylor was murdered.

I have NEVER liked Joe Buck but good on him if he and Aikman did a good job with this. I wasn’t watching live.

Ryan Clark was remarkable in unscripted 2-3 minute response. So heartfelt and well said.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the game will not be finished (which I kind of figured would be the case). No doubt the Bill team is in no state to play, I think they already returned to Buffalo. Both teams are already in the playoffs, the outcome could have shaken up the standings but totaly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any chance he is brain dead? Is it expected that vital signs are normal but a patient is still in critical condition?

Yes, I believe not having an update on his condition is because they are assessing his brain damage. They performed CPR for 10 minutes. That's a lot of time for the brain to not have oxygen or to have low oxygen. And he had the best medical response you could ever imagine when something like this happens.

Disagree. The chance of him being brain dead is very low. He may have some recovery to do from hypoxia, but it shouldn't be severe.

They don't have an update because there isn't one. His vitals are stable. They will let him rest in heavy sedation while they do tests. They probably won't even try to lower his sedation until 48 hours of brain rest. So we are looking at Wednesday morning.

He was down for a long time. He will be lucky to survive and if he does, he will be lucky if he experienced only mild hypoxia. It only takes a few minutes before the brain starts to react to loss of oxygen.

This is completely opposite from what other medical professionals are saying. He was in the fortunate position to receive medical care, CPR almost immediately. He was not “down” and without oxygen to the brain for nine minutes, he was receiving CPR and AED during that time., Life/brain-saving procedures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like the game will not be finished (which I kind of figured would be the case). No doubt the Bill team is in no state to play, I think they already returned to Buffalo. Both teams are already in the playoffs, the outcome could have shaken up the standings but totaly insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

Yup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but the ESPN team did a remarkable job under challenging circumstances. Joe Buck, partnered with Troy Aikman, explained how their task shifted from calling the game to reporting on a news story. Lisa Salters did some emotional and compelling reporting about what it was like to be in the stadium. The studio crew of Suzy Kolber, Booger McFarland, and Adam Schefter had perhaps the toughest job trying to find the right words to make sense of what was happening without knowing any facts. After the game, Ryan Clark, working with Scott Van Pelt, was emotional, powerful, and insightful. I was in awe of all of them, but Clark in particular.

Really? I thought they did a terrible job.

Nothing but a lot of stammering and deer in the headlights look.

Would have been great to have up a graphic with some basic info about him.
They did eventually do this… what 2 hours later.

How about a phoner or Zoom with a medical expert.
Your questions could be what has caused NFL players to collapse in the past? Why would someone need CPR and explain CPR? Why would you use an AED? How is this different from CPR? What is a Level 1 Trauma Center? Does the NFL have emergency protocols?
These are pretty basic questions without giving specific medical information or outcomes, but helps keep the story in perspective.

The timeline graphic was awful.

They didn't have that information as the situation unfolded. Nothing like this has ever happened before. They did their best under the circumstances, exhibiting real emotion without speculating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but the ESPN team did a remarkable job under challenging circumstances. Joe Buck, partnered with Troy Aikman, explained how their task shifted from calling the game to reporting on a news story. Lisa Salters did some emotional and compelling reporting about what it was like to be in the stadium. The studio crew of Suzy Kolber, Booger McFarland, and Adam Schefter had perhaps the toughest job trying to find the right words to make sense of what was happening without knowing any facts. After the game, Ryan Clark, working with Scott Van Pelt, was emotional, powerful, and insightful. I was in awe of all of them, but Clark in particular.

Really? I thought they did a terrible job.

Nothing but a lot of stammering and deer in the headlights look.

Would have been great to have up a graphic with some basic info about him.
They did eventually do this… what 2 hours later.

How about a phoner or Zoom with a medical expert.
Your questions could be what has caused NFL players to collapse in the past? Why would someone need CPR and explain CPR? Why would you use an AED? How is this different from CPR? What is a Level 1 Trauma Center? Does the NFL have emergency protocols?
These are pretty basic questions without giving specific medical information or outcomes, but helps keep the story in perspective.

The timeline graphic was awful.

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I absolutely hate the suggestion of a zoom with a medical expert that will absolutely not add anything to the unknown. CNN had that last night, it was speculative and useless.

I agree Ryan did a fantastic job. He’s a family friend and we are all so very proud of the words he spoke under the pressure and emotion of last night. He’s already been getting increased visibility but he’s due for a HUGE prime time role. Larger than Skip and Steven A. ESPN really ought to make him the face of football going forward. He’s young enough to make a real impact. I know I’m biased knowing him, but I really like the idea of an actual former player being the face of football on a network.

[Anonymous]

I feel like I’m becoming one of those boomers in the progressive commercials, but whenever I’m in an airport or public building and see an aed, I always think to myself - ok, that’s where it is in case I have to run and get it. Our house is 2 houses away from a park that has an aed, and every time I see it, I think about what if I had to run to get it. I also drive an electric vehicle, but I still carry around my weego, in case someone needs a jump. Progressive should call me for ad ideas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but the ESPN team did a remarkable job under challenging circumstances. Joe Buck, partnered with Troy Aikman, explained how their task shifted from calling the game to reporting on a news story. Lisa Salters did some emotional and compelling reporting about what it was like to be in the stadium. The studio crew of Suzy Kolber, Booger McFarland, and Adam Schefter had perhaps the toughest job trying to find the right words to make sense of what was happening without knowing any facts. After the game, Ryan Clark, working with Scott Van Pelt, was emotional, powerful, and insightful. I was in awe of all of them, but Clark in particular.

Really? I thought they did a terrible job.

Nothing but a lot of stammering and deer in the headlights look.

Would have been great to have up a graphic with some basic info about him.
They did eventually do this… what 2 hours later.

How about a phoner or Zoom with a medical expert.
Your questions could be what has caused NFL players to collapse in the past? Why would someone need CPR and explain CPR? Why would you use an AED? How is this different from CPR? What is a Level 1 Trauma Center? Does the NFL have emergency protocols?
These are pretty basic questions without giving specific medical information or outcomes, but helps keep the story in perspective.

The timeline graphic was awful.

-1

I absolutely hate the suggestion of a zoom with a medical expert that will absolutely not add anything to the unknown. CNN had that last night, it was speculative and useless.

I agree Ryan did a fantastic job. He’s a family friend and we are all so very proud of the words he spoke under the pressure and emotion of last night. He’s already been getting increased visibility but he’s due for a HUGE prime time role. Larger than Skip and Steven A. ESPN really ought to make him the face of football going forward. He’s young enough to make a real impact. I know I’m biased knowing him, but I really like the idea of an actual former player being the face of football on a network.

I didn't know much about his football background but was in awe of his commentary last night. His demeanor was somehow calming yet deeply emotional and impactful. It was like he commanded the room, offered insight based on his personal experience, yet didn't make it all about him. I'm not sure he could have improved on any of his work last night. Please tell him that he earned many new fans during a heartbreaking telecast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it has already been mentioned, but the ESPN team did a remarkable job under challenging circumstances. Joe Buck, partnered with Troy Aikman, explained how their task shifted from calling the game to reporting on a news story. Lisa Salters did some emotional and compelling reporting about what it was like to be in the stadium. The studio crew of Suzy Kolber, Booger McFarland, and Adam Schefter had perhaps the toughest job trying to find the right words to make sense of what was happening without knowing any facts. After the game, Ryan Clark, working with Scott Van Pelt, was emotional, powerful, and insightful. I was in awe of all of them, but Clark in particular.

Really? I thought they did a terrible job.

Nothing but a lot of stammering and deer in the headlights look.

Would have been great to have up a graphic with some basic info about him.
They did eventually do this… what 2 hours later.

How about a phoner or Zoom with a medical expert.
Your questions could be what has caused NFL players to collapse in the past? Why would someone need CPR and explain CPR? Why would you use an AED? How is this different from CPR? What is a Level 1 Trauma Center? Does the NFL have emergency protocols?
These are pretty basic questions without giving specific medical information or outcomes, but helps keep the story in perspective.

The timeline graphic was awful.

Wow, that would’ve been completely inappropriate! They’re in the middle of cutting his jersey off and resuscitating him and when you want a play-by-play zoom call with a medical expert? The situation was not for your entertainment.