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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. It is a Tuesday, a somber Tuesday live in Los Angeles. It's the herd wherever you may be, however you may be listening or watching I heart radio. Fox Sports Radio and FS1. Jason McIntyre is joining me alongside me as always today. We know today I'll have a bit more of a somber time.

We know tomorrow of a somber tone as we continue to wait for word on the well being of tomorrow, Hamlin who collapse last night on the field.

One of the things that that jumped out to me to start we're so lucky in this country to have first responders EMT technicians.

There's so many people we've dealt with so much in this country from a health standpoint over the last couple of years and tip of the cap to all those people in this country that are always on the spot every NFL stadium has multiple EMTs first responders and they are more than capable and and we hope saved demands life last night.

I want to start with this so often I've probably guilty of this we complain about roughing the passer the targeting rules and the quick ejections in college football and the reason the league implements those is because of last night about I think six months ago.

Roger Gidele wasn't quoted but somebody wrote a wonderful article about sort of the depth and the concerns of the safety of this sport and that the greatest fear whether it's the commissioner of NASCAR or a promoter in boxing or Roger Gidele last night is everybody's greatest fear.

Football is much safer than even 10 15 years ago.

But it's football it's large fast man running full speed tackling one another and they're getting bigger and they're getting stronger and they're getting faster I see pictures from time to time on the Internet of high school football players who are 235 pounds and ripped and I think wow could he tackle my son it's scary out there.

Practices though have been cut back there's less hitting in practices I had a college football coach tell me years ago once the season starts they don't hit much at practice anymore.

The equipment's getting better there are regulations everywhere but but and this is something the NFL and all football but let's talk NFL today has to look itself in the mirror.

Do we really need a 17th regular season game I don't like it. It benefits me because it extends the season but I said it when I came out you can't tell me safety's number one and add a 17th game Thursday night football I enjoy it but do we need players playing fatigue anybody who's ever.

Random marathon or bin athletic or skewed the accidents always happened when your muscles are most fatigued.

I don't understand preseason football I've been railing on that many of you don't get it either college football doesn't have it it's just another hundred and fifty collisions for the athletes if safety really matters then we don't need Thursday night football then we don't need a preseason.

The league has taken steps lots of them but you have see car racing football boxing hell even baseball they throw a hundred mile an hour pitch seemingly you watch a baseball game everybody throws like 98 miles an hour used to be high 80s low 90s now people are getting over a hundred miles an hour to small ball sometimes stone in the wrong places sports is scary at times I did think the NFL got it right and hear me out on the table.

Any time you have a crisis communication is hard it could be in the cockpit of a plane it could be during a flood it's hard people are panicking people are scared this was unprecedented I also think they got it right maybe not on my timeline I would have called it sooner maybe they did call it sooner and it took seven eight nine minutes to get down to everybody to hear it I don't know.

The European soccer championships a couple of years ago Christian Erickson a wonderful player collapsed once he was stabilized at a hospital the game continued on that seems completely inappropriate to me years ago when Vince McMahon ran the WWE a wrestler died they continued the show that's gross.

Troy Vincent did come out and say the NFL did not consider giving players five minutes now some people I think were confused I was because I saw Joe burrow warm up with a couple of passes but players weren't warming up players were crying players were shocked and they should have been it's unprecedented Joe Buck Troy Ackman have been doing this for years they didn't know what to say nobody knew what to say.

The other thing that I thought about this morning is you know a lot of people are rightly giving credit to Sean McDermott or or Zach Taylor because the coaches may have made the ultimate decision and we all think to ourselves why didn't the commissioner but you know how it works sometimes the president calls a governor calls a mayor calls the Peace Corps calls the national guard and communication

who's on the ground who's there Sean McDermott listening to his players he's watching his players cry it's okay to me to lean in as a sport lean into the people on the scene they know what's happening they know what's going on they're seeing their players sob not somebody watching on a camera in New York City the people in Cincinnati knew how serious it was and Sean McDermott had his arm around those players it's a great thing to do.

It's okay to lean on him Sean what's going on tell us what do you think I think out of respect for the family last night to tie right we don't play this thing we have ties in football we have ties in football and they exist and this will be a tie it's out of respect for the family and his health we make exceptions all the time in fact I think baseball

baseball decided recently they were just going to use more tie breakers because they couldn't find a spot to play extra games you know play in games this is a tie out of respect to the family in the moment you know I say I'll once or twice a year I'll say this you know love your life like your sports and the reason I've said that for years is to have perspective on it and I think last night wow tip of the hat to all the players and I think last night

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