{"id":7580,"date":"2013-12-17T09:20:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T14:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2013-12-17T09:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T14:22:34","slug":"larry-fitzgerald-passes-initial-baseline-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/12\/17\/larry-fitzgerald-passes-initial-baseline-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Fitzgerald passes initial baseline testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5391\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5391\" alt=\"larryfitzgerald\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/larryfitzgerald.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/larryfitzgerald.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/larryfitzgerald-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/larryfitzgerald-50x35.jpg 50w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/09\/larryfitzgerald-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald told\u00a0J<em>im Gray of Westwood One<\/em> during Monday evenings radio broadcast that he has passed initial baseline testing for a concussion he suffered during Sunday&#8217;s\u00a0overtime win against the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I went in and saw an independent neurologist,\u201d Fitzgerald told Jim Gray. \u201cHe put me through a screening test, a baseline test, that I took in the spring time. They wanted to see if my scores were on the same level as my scores when I was fully functioning in the offseason. Those tests came back positive. I was right where I needed to be. Tomorrow I will see another neurologist to get another independent look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that point it\u2019s just about how I feel going through the week. But right now I\u2019m feeling good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals head to Seattle this week, and will face the 49ers at home the following week. Having Fitzgerald available to play would bolster the teams chances of making the playoffs as they likely need to win both games for a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald recalled during the broadcast that he remembered the &#8220;ball bouncing towards him,&#8221; and then, &#8220;being helped up my team training staff.&#8221; Fitzgerald said that he wanted to re-enter the game, but the trainers told him it was in his best interest to sit out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to let your teammates down,\u201d Fitzgerald said. \u201cYou work so hard with those guys. They depend on you. I depend on them. Being a captain, I definitely have to go out there and fight with them. That\u2019s my mentality and it always will be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald told\u00a0Jim Gray of Westwood One during Monday evenings radio broadcast that he has passed initial baseline testing for a concussion he suffered during Sunday&#8217;s\u00a0overtime win against the Tennessee Titans. \u201cToday I went in and saw an independent neurologist,\u201d Fitzgerald told Jim Gray. \u201cHe put me through a screening test, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[216],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-7580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}