Morice Norris injury: Lions, Falcons explain why teams elected to run out the clock after devastating moment

More than anything – more than watching the first, rather than feeling and excitement of rookies making their private NFL Debut, and at least more than care about the scoreboard – coaches want to use the preseason to evaluate as much of their roster. It’s why the first stringers only play a series or two before retired to back and young people. This reps – not specific “- which are invaluable to make teams to try to whittle them roster down from 90 to 53 in the arrival weeks.

But Friday night, which is changed. Nothing more than a moricy of norris “health. The Detroit Lions Cornerback suffer wrong with serious with head snout back After colliding with thigh / knee area of Atlanta Falcons running Nathan Carter in the first story of the fourth quarter. Norris appeared to lose consciousness afterwards.

Norris received a medical attention for several minutes before you load the ambulance. Lions randomly crew noted Norris is blinking his eyes when it was taken to the field and the coach Dan Campbell said postgame and Norris is a spirit, talked and had some movement. Friday night, lions told Norris in the “stable condition with feeling and movement in any extreme.”

Left in the eyery scene with Mercedes-Benz Stadium – one thing that turned on both teams election run out of the last clock and the end of the game. Falcons quarterback EMORY Jones took a snap and held onto the ball and members both teams gathered at the center of the field. NFL officially suspended game with 6:19 remaining with the lions leading 17-10.

“[Falcons coach] Raheem Morris is a kind of action “Campbell said.” He’s the last type of action. We agreed that just don’t feel right to complete the game. The person is a kind of action. Ever been.

“It’s like eye-opener” Campbell continued. “There hits a little different and puts things in perspective. I tell you what the person, it’s a violent game. We love, but with the stuff of the player, as it is in a team, as it is in another player, as it is to be a lot.”

“I told them to – and we are – up to this is above” said. “Kid just wants to get better everyday. I don’t even know what else to say. It will be some team members stay back. We have some players who want to see.”

Morris explained the side of the proceeds.

“Not a lot of time, which is” Horace said. “I can’t sit here and tell you to have been in a lot of them or we have seen a lot of them. I don’t think what we have. It was a moment, decision. It was right [both] Ball teams. “

Players agreed with a decision to suspend the game.

“I don’t think anyone in the Sideline wanted to play,” said Lions quarterback Kyle Allen, In the ESPN. “We are not part of that plan, but not just look at all eyes to see and not worth it.”

“Thoughts are heavy now,” said Falcons wide receptor Casey Washington. “It was difficult to see. The thoughts and prayers go out to his family. Some bigger than football and conditions that all right to pray for families and hope to all right. It is tough.”

“We’re just trying to show as much as to him, and that’s, I think, where everyone thoughts are already,” Falcons quarterback loadon said.

Quotes of course come from players who facing the roster battles well. Allen came into the field only three plays before throwing the second touchdown crossing the evening back after a hard hall of reputation game. 53 and Washington are pushing 53-person.

In an ideal world, of course, players like those three – and more fully – you want to see the game finish out. But Friday, with potential in the power of the Norris life Proceeding and correctly.