Ravens' Kicker Cundiff Played With Concussion

by Bruce Raffel on Dec 11, 2009 9:17 AM EST

According to a story on ProFootballTalk.com, Baltimore Ravens placekicker, Billy Cundiff played with a concussion he suffered on the opening kickoff in last week's game on Monday Night Football against the Green Bay Packers. Cundiff went back in the game for two extra points and kickoffs after sustaining the blow to the head and being unstable enough to not have his balance.

Interesting how the team would have let him return to action right after the league promoted a stricter stance on these exact type of injuries. The team tried to downplay it by saying he was instructed to kick the ball and then head off the field to avoid further damage. Looks like a team putting themselves ahead of the individual's health, but we'll need to hear more before we indict their actions any further.

See the story here.

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Value of life in general > kickers life

by raven on Dec 11, 2009 6:39 PM EST reply actions

Sam Koch is our backup if we had to. I was reading this earlier and they said on kick-offs against GB, Cundiff was running right off the field as soon as the ball was in the air.

You have to hate losing more than you love winning.

by Mr MaLoR on Dec 11, 2009 6:57 PM EST reply actions

sounds like Frank Walker

by raven on Dec 11, 2009 7:52 PM EST reply actions

I know Mcgahee is the backup long snapper

and of course if we had Graham Gano, he’d also be the backup punter!

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Dec 11, 2009 9:06 PM EST reply actions

McGahee officially a DICK

As you know by now it was Willies idea to change the play and bump ouside thus changing the entire game and season. It was revealed during the softball question and answer period with Jerry Sanducky.

Attention fans! When you call the Jim Harbaugh show don’t pussy foot around with your questions. You know your pacing your living room before hand calling John and his play calling mounds of shit. So, when you get on the phone with him stop all the, “errr, well, hi. uhh. this is rick from white marsh. yeah. that runnin’ play on the one. i know you saw a lot of things and had the right calls in coach. uhh, you did a nice job but err, McGahee saw somethin’ and went outside with it. thats a tough one to take coach..thanks and bye.” NO NO NO NO NO!!!

When you call Sanducky and John tell them like your tellin your buddy in the bar. “Your play on the 1 sucked – - – -. I can’t believe you let that ass—— McGahee touch the ball. Bench the SOB for taking the teams life into his own hands. Why did you try to kill Cundiff? He couldn’t even see the ball and you run his vertigo ass out there.” YES! Much better.

by raven on Dec 11, 2009 10:39 PM EST reply actions

From Kevin Byrne, Senior Vice President of Public and Community Relations

I was listening to Coach Harbaugh’s radio show last Tuesday (6 to 7 p.m. on WBAL Radio) when a caller told the Ravens’ head coach that he knew football because he had played nine years of "semi-pro football" and that the Ravens’ offense was predictable and the defense too simple. I yelled at the radio: "Great, nine years of semi-pro ball, and you know the game better than John, Cam and Greg, who do this for a career. Hey, I eat every day, but I’m not a chef. I drive a car every day and have no idea how it works or how to fix it. Get a life, man, quit calling the show. Go play in your sandlot games."

Little harsh, don’t you think?

You have to hate losing more than you love winning.

by Mr MaLoR on Dec 11, 2009 10:48 PM EST up reply actions

The best part is he’s a supposed worldly man being a VP but he has no clue how a car works. Brilliant, knowledge seeking man of higher learning. I bet his wife changes the battery for him. Nothing worse than having a superior with no real world knowledge. You just can’t take them serious. I had a boss once who told me he didn’t know how to jump start a car. That took any authority he had and melted it down into a heaping pile of mamas boy.

How arrogant, “Go play in your sandlot games”. Buy our tickets, drink our $8 beer but offer your perspective and our VP will attack you. What a hoot. I am on the side of the Semi=pro player. Our dynamic trio have screwed up enough games this year. And, play calling isn’t that difficult. It’s football. Draw up plays, pass out copies to the team, go over technique learned in Pop Warner, scout the oppopnent, play the game. If you 1/2 the coaches in this league-stay out of the way of the talent.

by raven on Dec 11, 2009 11:26 PM EST up reply actions

So are you saying?

That just because he’s their PR guy, it doesn’t automatically mean you know more about football than us fans!?

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Dec 12, 2009 11:56 AM EST up reply actions

That show's become a weekly tradition for me

Actually recently John’s been getting some pretty “bold” callers, wouldn’t surprised if you were one of them raven..

"We don’t have any rearview mirrors in our car,"- John Harbaugh

by purpleonblack86 on Dec 11, 2009 10:47 PM EST reply actions

LOL. MAYBE!! I want to get real liquored up one call and slur my entire question and end it with Sum Bitch.

The Senior VP of Public and Comm. Relations broke golden rule number 1 of PR. Don’t ever answer any question directly- let alone aiming hostilities in the direction of a single person. You take on a fan you’ll never win. Right or wrong. All he did was level the playing field. LOL. He might get kicked out of the Castle or carried out by a mass of Semi-pro football players- three of which play in the Raven secondary.

by raven on Dec 11, 2009 11:15 PM EST reply actions

Its a bad excuse...

to allow a player to play with a concussion for any reason. This just goes to show just how far the NFL has to go to educate teams to stop f-ing around when it comes to concussions.

"The ball always seems to find Ed Reed...The man is a menace"

by UMBC Oriole fan on Dec 13, 2009 12:31 PM EST reply actions