The NFL's Chief Medical Officer discusses 18 games, all grass fields, & banning low blocks

Ross Tucker Football Podcast: Daily NFL Podcast

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Sports, News, Football, Sports News

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ross is joined by Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL's Chief Medical Officer to discuss many of the league's changes from a player safety standpoint including: The new kickoff rule: 4:20 Safer helmets: 7:35 Fewer practices: 9:00 Adding an 18th game: 16:15 Playing surfaces: 17:55 And more! Download the DraftKings Sports Book App and use code ROSS! Connect with the Pod Website - https://www.rosstucker.com Become A Patron - https://www.patreon.com/RTMedia Podcast Twitter - https://twitter.com/RossTuckerPod Podcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rosstuckerpod/ Ross Twitter - https://twitter.com/RossTuckerNFL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.4	We've got way, way large amounts of variance among fields now all over the place,
0:44.3	both artificial and grass in terms of their properties.
0:46.7	We'd like to see that narrow and have playing surfaces become more consistent overall.
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0:55.8	none other than your host, former NFL lineman, Ross Taylor.
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1:21.7	Big week in the NFL because they've got the May owners meetings,
1:26.2	which is when they're going to vote on a bunch of different things,
1:30.2	including whether or not to ban the tush push.
1:38.5	Also, some playoff seating stuff, which is very fascinating to see what happens there as well. We've got Dr. Alan Sills, and he is going to be the guy that we talk to about all the health and safety stuff.
1:47.9	Now, this interview was at the Super Bowl, so we didn't get into Tush Push that much,
1:52.6	but we did talk about an 18th game.
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