Players in the National Football League have grown increasingly frustrated with Thursday Night Football. We can now add New York Jets wide receiver Jermaine Kearse to the list of guys who believe the spectacle should go the way of the dinosaurs.
“You’re asking guys who play a high volume on one day and literally give it their all on that one day and ask them to recover and try to bounce back in a couple of days,” Kearse said, via Dennis Waszak of the Associated Press. “It’s kind of tough, especially when you’re already dealing with certain stuff from previous weeks that might be nagging or lingering.”
“This game has a 100 percent injury rate,” the Jets receiver said. “That’s the truth, that’s the facts. . . . You give them a short week like that [on Thursdays], it’s tough.”
“I think there definitely needs to be a discussion, for sure,” he said. “Just finding better ways to take care of the players. I mean, guys are putting their bodies on the line, day in and day out.”
Jermaine Kearse, formerly of the Seattle Seahawks, likely said this statements for two reasons. For starters, he is telling the truth. Secondly, a lot of his former teammates got blown up last Thursday and also voiced their displeasure when playing on that specific day of the week.
Former teammate Doug Baldwin was especially livid about the entire debacle.
“This s— should be illegal,” Baldwin said, via Gregg Bell of the Tacoma News Tribune. “It is not OK. It’s not OK. You can quote me on that.
“This is not OK. … Absolutely, guys do not have enough time to recover. You can’t recover in four days.”
What do you guys think? Should Thursday Night Football be banned?
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