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Rex Ryan Blames Coaches and Quarterbacks For Slide-Related Injuries

Rex Ryan goes off on the quarterback slide. | ESPN / YouTube

Trevor Lawrence suffered a concussion in Week 13 when Azeez Al-Shaair hit him on a quarterback slide. The play is meant to make the quarterback off-limits, but with the speed of the game, that can sometime be impossible, which is what Al-Shaair mentioned in a social media post on Monday morning explaining his side of the story.

Whatever Al-Shaair's intentions were on the play, Lawrence is just the latest quarterback to be hurt by a defender after he'd given himself up. That point was made passionately by Rex Ryan on Get Up this morning as he blamed coaches and quarterbacks for putting defenders a position where an injury seems likely.

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