{"id":350,"date":"2012-10-14T13:41:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=350"},"modified":"2012-10-14T14:23:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T18:23:56","slug":"redskins-face-fine-for-handling-of-griffin-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/10\/14\/redskins-face-fine-for-handling-of-griffin-concussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Redskins face fine for handling of Griffin concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www1.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Robert+Griffin+III+Atlanta+Falcons+v+Washington+k7KxuGbNoXml.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>Robert Griffin III will play against the Minnesota Vikings but the NFL is still looking into the rookie quarterbacks recent head injury. Griffin suffered a concussion in last weeks loss to Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>After the game the Redskins simply described Griffin&#8217;s status as &#8220;shaken up&#8221; which goes against the NFL&#8217;s idea that teams\u00a0 &#8220;immediately acknowledge a head injury to prevent concussed players from getting pushed back on field,&#8221; Jay Glazer reported reported Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Glazer also sent out the following <a href=\"http:\/\/tmi.me\/y6pZA\">tweet <\/a>on twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Redskins are facing a HEFTY fine from the NFL for handing of RG3 injury when they said last week he was &#8220;shaken up.&#8221; NFL want teams to immediately acknowledge a head injury to prevent concussed players from getting pushed back on field &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Redskins are 2-3 in Griffin&#8217;s first season in the league. He was the second overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin completed in full practice on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In five games this season Griffin has throw for 1,161 yards and has 4 touchdowns to 1 interception. He also has 241 yards on the ground scoring another 4 touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Video of when Griffin was injured below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FgK12g8to7U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Griffin III will play against the Minnesota Vikings but the NFL is still looking into the rookie quarterbacks recent head injury. Griffin suffered a concussion in last weeks loss to Atlanta. After the game the Redskins simply described Griffin&#8217;s status as &#8220;shaken up&#8221; which goes against the NFL&#8217;s idea that teams\u00a0 &#8220;immediately acknowledge a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[53],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-robert-griffin-iii"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}