Guardian Cap

Good for you for having that.

Matt Devine recently released a down-to-earth but educated take on the Guardian cap.

Oh, this is from...

Who did this? Yeah, a podcast from the good folks over at 99% Invisible.

We're all about that.

Get those Guardian Caps on.

We're about safety first here at the National Football League," and then you're not going to make this a point of emphasis even to look into it deeper.

And even if, even if the Eagles come out of this completely scot-free...

You know, the, the, the narrative the NFL's trying to create always is that, "Hey, we really want health and safety for our athletes," so, and really it's because they wanna get more games on the schedule.

It's like the Guardian Cap thing that came up last week.

I think it was a Papa Tory thing.

It, it, it's like the Guardian Cap doesn't help at all.

It helps like .2 per, 2% or .2%.

It's, it's a nothing burger, right? And we've given it to kids and it's just a...

So that's my guy this week, Jeremy Bernard.

Uh, making the Guardian Cap have aura.

Him and-

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... him and Olave are absolutely out there just ending narratives.

Listen, Romeo Dobbs almost brought the death of the Guardian Cap single-handedly.

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And then, you know, just Jeremy Bernard and, and Chris Olave bringing it right back.

I want to preface this with an acknowledgement that I understand that concussions are serious and head trauma is best avoided.

That said, am I a meathead because I take an inordinate amount of pride in the fact that none of the Bengals wear those stupid-looking Guardian Caps during a game?"

Um, so the Guardian Caps are interesting.

I recommend people, if you have any interest in this topic, uh, watch Pablo Torre Finds Out sat down with Chri- Chris Nowinski, who has done a ton of research on concussions and Guardian Caps and is very involved in that, and talked about how some of the, the claims about Guardian Caps have not exactly been what you, the NFL maybe claims they are, and that, or at least that what some of the stuff that they're saying is, is flawed in terms of the research.

He pointed out that there was a widely publicized claim of a 52% reduction in concussions, and that they just weren't backed up by peer-reviewed data.

And the other thing is, like, the caps, the added bulk and weight Gives you a higher s- bigger space for the, like, the hit and the rotational impact that's really prevalent in CTE stuff.

... and you know it.

But like, uh, you should go, go check that out.