NFL executive VP of football operations Troy Vincent says on a conference call with media says neither head coach nor any players spoke about resuming the game. “It was really about Damar. … Look, I’ve never seen anything like it, so immediately my player hat went on.”
Troy Vincent: “How do you resume play after you’ve seen such a traumatic event occur in front of you real time? That’s the way we were thinking about it, Commussioner (Roger Goodell) and I.”
Troy Vincent is not sure where the 5-minute warmup period came from: “There was no time period for the players to get warmed up. … It never crossed our mind to talk about warming up to resume play. That’s ridiculous. That’s insensitive. That’s not a place we should ever be in.”