“Joe never said anything that wasn’t said.”

ESPN’s Troy Aikman Defended TV Partner Joe Buck The Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals were originally told to resume play following Bills safety from NFL pushback on Buck’s report Dummer Hamlin Collapse.

Hamlin went into cardiac arrest after tackling Bengals wide receiver tea higginsHamlin underwent CPR in the field before being taken to a local hospital. On ESPN’s airwaves, Buck reiterated that the team would have five minutes to warm up before play resumed. The game was not restarted, was postponed, and then canceled by the NFL.Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the NFL, Troy Vincentdenied Buck’s allegations.

“Personally, a five-minute warm-up never crossed my mind,” says Vincent. “I was the one who got in touch with the commissioner. Frankly, it never crossed my mind to discuss warming up to resume play. It’s not where you should be.”

Thursday, Aikman Sports Illustrated Media Podcast hosted by Jimmy Trainaand the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback backed up his partner’s report.

“I think your assessment is accurate,” Aikman said. “Whether the information was given in the first place John Parry [ESPN’s rules analyst] Or was the information first provided to Joe Buck (I understand the information was provided to John), who then passed it on. “

“But whether it’s that information or any other information, I can assure you that Joe didn’t say anything that wasn’t said. It just doesn’t work that way,” Aikman added. .

Aikman explained that he didn’t read much news that week, so he wasn’t aware of Buck’s back-and-forth with the NFL, but felt the war of words between the two was pointless.

“None of that matters to me,” Aikman continued. “No one cares? I don’t know anyone cares. What I care about, and what people care about, is that Dumar Hamlin is now at home in Buffalo, comfortably Resting, doing well, and appearing to be fully recovered.

“That’s the point,” Aikman said. “That may sound clichéd, but it really is. I don’t think anyone walks around saying, ‘Where did that information come from?'”

Traina told ESPN’s color commentators that the NFL went to great lengths to clear the names of the five-minute warm-up reports.

“The league is what pushed that narrative for some reason,” added Treina.

Buck also defended himself against the NFL, stating, “If anything I said on national television that the world was watching was wrong from the league’s perspective, it would have been corrected immediately.”

“We continued the broadcast for another 40 minutes, and no one corrected the idea that the game was restarted. No one,” Buck stressed.

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