{"id":15586,"date":"2024-12-03T00:20:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=15586"},"modified":"2024-12-03T00:20:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:20:56","slug":"rex-ryan-blames-coaches-and-quarterbacks-for-slide-related-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=15586","title":{"rendered":"Rex Ryan Blames Coaches and Quarterbacks For Slide-Related Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mm-id=\"_q6cw5oacm\">\n<p data-mm-id=\"_q6cw5oacm\">\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_q6cw5oacm\">Trevor Lawrence suffered a concussion in Week 13 when\u00a0<a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/azeez-al-shaair-needs-suspension-trevor-lawrence-late-hit\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/azeez-al-shaair-needs-suspension-trevor-lawrence-late-hit\">Azeez Al-Shaair hit him on a quarterback slide<\/a>. The play is meant to make the quarterback off-limits, but with the speed of the game, that can sometime be impossible, which is what\u00a0<a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/azeez-al-shaair-apologizes-to-trevor-lawrence-jaguars-for-dirty-hit\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/azeez-al-shaair-apologizes-to-trevor-lawrence-jaguars-for-dirty-hit\">Al-Shaair mentioned in a social media post on Monday morning<\/a>\u00a0explaining his side of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_n11ugoset\">Whatever Al-Shaair&#8217;s intentions were on the play, Lawrence is just the latest quarterback to be hurt by a defender after he&#8217;d given himself up. That point was made passionately by Rex Ryan on\u00a0<em>Get Up<\/em>\u00a0this morning as he blamed coaches and quarterbacks for putting defenders a position where an injury seems likely.<\/p>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CIu9g42qiooDFfKsOgUd_Zc9Vw\">\n<figure class=\"style_shloxk-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_bp7tg76xa\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"style_1nhfz2\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vprw3DndT3I?si=ixe09cNCaGBIZdLw&amp;start=420\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_e5lk7lms8\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve gotta learn how to protect yourself,&#8221; said Ryan. &#8220;And I&#8217;m going to tell you right now, obviously it was a dirty hit, I am so sick and tired of seeing people teach,\u00a0<em>Hey, slide. When you&#8217;re running out here, you slide.\u00a0<\/em>The hell you do! Not when you&#8217;re going full speed down the field and the defender&#8217;s coming full speed at you. You don&#8217;t slide. I can see this happens over and over and over again. All you have to do is watch every Saturday, college football. Two to three of these happen every single week. I&#8217;m sick and tired of it. You are not protecting your quarterback when you teach them how to slide when it&#8217;s not in the open field. Open field of course. That&#8217;s great. Absolutely not here. If you want to get a concussion you slide like this when contact&#8217;s coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_q1l9eww66\">The rule has been around since 1985, but Lawrence&#8217;s injury is all the proof you need that it doesn&#8217;t protect quarterbacks the way it&#8217;s intended to. Ryan&#8217;s solution is to teach the quarterbacks to do something different.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_yzct9k20v\">&#8220;They should be taught to dive at the ankles of the defender or run the football and keep your head out of it,&#8221; said Ryan. &#8220;Trust me, I would take the ankles of the defender. Run right there, dive at his ankles. Immediately the guy&#8217;s going to go to protect himself. This happens all the time when the guy&#8217;s just trying to make a tackle. This is a big quarterback running here. I&#8217;m so sick and tired of it. Let&#8217;s put a film together and actually teach our young quarterbacks how to protect themselves. I&#8217;m sick and tired of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_dsrzzcuug\">This seems like an imperfect solution, but it&#8217;s also an imperfect situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Lawrence suffered a concussion in Week 13 when\u00a0Azeez Al-Shaair hit him on a quarterback slide. 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