Should Brandin Cooks Be Playing Tonight?
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🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
After two concussions last month (and five in his career), wide receiver Brandin Cooks is back in the lineup for the Rams on Monday Night Football. But The Athletic's Rich Hammond wonders, should he be? Rich joins us to discuss how, with the help of an outside neurologist and his wife, Cooks made the decision to return to playing football so quickly.
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| 0:00.0 | So tonight's Monday Night Football is a pretty interesting matchup, Kavita. |
| 0:10.7 | Yeah, you've got maybe the hottest team in the NFL right now and the Ravens with Lamar |
| 0:15.5 | Jackson just doing ridiculous things. |
| 0:18.7 | And the Rams who are pretty much in a must win situation. |
| 0:22.1 | Right, they're six and four, third in their division. |
| 0:24.8 | So if the playoffs started today, they would not be in. |
| 0:28.0 | And remember, this team was in the Super Bowl last year. |
| 0:31.0 | Right. |
| 0:31.8 | And our story today is about a player on the Rams who is making what seems like an early return |
| 0:38.6 | from not one, but two concussions. |
| 0:41.4 | And they're going to take a closer look at Brandon Cook's on the sideline. |
| 0:44.3 | Well, and they should. |
| 0:45.1 | That was that was a heck of a hit. |
| 0:47.3 | Wide receiver Brandon Cook's was concussed twice last month and four times in the past two years, |
| 0:53.3 | which got the athletics rich Hammond wondering, |
| 0:56.0 | should he be playing tonight from wondering any athletic I'm Anders Kelto. |
| 1:00.5 | And I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 1:02.0 | It's Monday, November 25th and this is the lead. |
| 1:06.2 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:10.3 | There was just something about the emotion and the |
| 1:14.3 | the failures of the past don't matter because we've got this. |
| 1:19.3 | That's not good. |
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