Hit Rodgers took from Peppers-Concussion? Or no?

I agree, Kitten. He looked absolutely fine after the game.

I also wonder how bad his tongue was, bleeding like that - it probably didn't distract him all that much, but that had to suck.

His play didn't seem nearly as stellar even before that hit. He took a shot to the head, regardless of whether he got concussed or not he's going to be a little dazed.

Isn't the NFL going to fine Peppers? I haven't heard anything yet...

Go back and watch him on the sidelines of the Lions game compared to this past Sunday. He looked sick in that Detroit game and just sat there. Meanwhile he was jumping around after the Raji TD and was whooping it up when they sealed the victory.

The Packers medical staff is ultra conservative with injuries. If Rodgers showed any signs of a concussion, they would have pulled him.

I think we're looking for a problem that isn't there. Of course he was woozy, he took a cheap shot to the side of the head! Any one of us would be a little shaken after a dirty hit like that. But his accuracy was still OK. Quarless dropped a 3rd and 2 pass that would have gone for a conversion and allowed us to keep moving the chains on that same drive after the hit.

Also need to give credit to the Bears defense. They manned up in the second half, and started playing desperate when they weren't getting anywhere on offense or on special teams. That's more the reason in my mind for our offensive woes, not Rodgers or anything else.

Rodgers didn't show signs of a concussion. He wouldn't have been allowed back in for one and two he was acting "normal" on the sidelines. Not sitting on the bench with a far away look on his face. I'm confident the Medical staff would have protected Rodgers from permanent injury then allow him back in with a concussion.

I think the shoulder started tightening up in the 2nd half, Bears D started getting desperate and started playing lights out while our team started tiring sooner. Packers had no bye week to rest, and had to play against real teams, not Seattle to get there. Our team was banged up and tired, can't tell me they weren't which is another reason why I'm so proud they won that game.

Clearly he was a bit foggy after getting smacked by Peppers, but I don't think he was concussed (Although if a hit like that doesn't give you one I don't know what will...that new helmet must really offer additional protection). I've gotten clobbered before and just been foggy for a while without having suffered a concussion. I definitely think it was more of a shoulder issue. Even my Bears fan friends noticed it when he ran in the touchdown in the NFC championship game and didn't do the belt celebration. If anywhere, you would do it there after such a cool scoring play.

He looked happy and alert at the press conference after the game.

In addition to what Wilde was just saying on ESPN radio, I found this little article, in which McCarthy says it was a shoulder injury:
acmepackingcompany.com/2011/1/25/1954839/battered-and-bruised-green-bay-packers-see-aaron-rodgers-nursing-sore

Questions arise as to whether Aaron Rodgers suffered a concussion

Source: ProFootballTalk.com

I'll be at work today but someone should run the question by Rob Demovsky when he has his chat @ 3 today on the Press Gazette...

Rodgers says new helmet helped him avoid concussion

Source: ProFootballTalk.com

hopefully other players will start switching to the new style

The new Schutt helmets are tons better than the overrated Riddells. More players should switch.

:chisux:

Hopefully Peppers gets his a** reamed by Goodell. I've seen few hits that were blatantly intended to harm a player than that.

By the way, fines are usually announced on Fridays, so I'm sure we'll hear something then as far as Peppers and a fine.

To me i actually think so, Rodgers is a Great quarterback. But i think the Defense finished the game out for us.

Why is this even still being discussed? No signs of a concussion. No team official or medical person has made the claim. F*cking florio runs with something and it becomes a big issue. Several reporters who talked to him after the game said no signs of being out of it. It's a dead issue until someone with a real medical background says otherwise.

So glad he had that nice new helmet

I don't know why this is still being discussed. The Bears made adjustments at half time and that pretty much explains why the offense stalled in the second half. Also, they show Rodgers jumping around and celebrating in the 4th quarter, both after Raji TD and Shields INT. I don't think he does that if he has a concussion.

He did have a gaze right after the hit but he was fine in the series right after the hit. Also, if Quarless makes the 3rd down catch I don't think we would be talking about this. That throw by Rodgers was after the hit and was right on the money!

Praise be to the anti-concussion helmet!

This should put it to rest once and for all and hopefully move this out of "Sticky Threads."

Aaron Rodgers Press Conf. Transcript - Jan. 26

I dunno why non-medical people who don't even shake A-Rods hand start to worry what just turns out to be nothing.
"Oh! Look at him. He's got a concussion!"
Just wait until all the facts are in before judging.

^^^ Agreed, the situation is over.

Although, I will say that I doubt what we're being told would be different even if he did have a concussion... Everyone here knows what's on the line this time, as does Aaron. I feel like after watching him answer that question today that he knew there was something there, that even if it was mild, he felt that that hit and he knows it rattled him a little. But that's just my opinion.

Fact is, they are denying it, they have to do what they have to do and the situation is over. On to Dallas.