Baltimore Ravens linebacker Kyle Van Noy criticized the Kansas City Chiefs’ medical staff for being slow to respond to his eye injury during the teams’ season opener last week.
Van Noy injured his right eye in the third quarter on Thursday night and said he was “disappointed” about how long it took for Chiefs doctors to see him in the locker room after leaving the field.
“When you get hurt, especially something that can be serious like mine was, you’re supposed to rely on the team’s training staff or their doctors, and I was supposed to see an ophthalmologist,” Van Noy said Tuesday on his podcast with retired defensive tackle Gerald McCoy. “They took an entire quarter to get down to talk to me in the locker room, which to me is unacceptable because then you start thinking, ‘What if I was trying to go back in the game? What if I was really, really hurt? I know mine happened to be moderate, but it still was serious because it’s an eye and your expectation of someone to be down there, as the training staff asked them to be down there, would have had a little bit more urgency.”
A Chiefs spokesperson said the team had no comment on Van Noy’s remarks, which also referenced the organization getting a failing grade for its training staff on NFLPA report cards.
“I understand how Kansas City, the players have given that training room an ‘F’ because, with my experience, I would have probably after that gave them an ‘F,’ too,” Van Noy said. “As a player, people have that expectation of you being professional, handling business and in a time of need I wanted that from them and I felt like I didn’t get it.”
In July, shortly before training camp, Chiefs president Mark Donovan was asked about the “F” grades from players.
“You hate to see that, and you hate to be on the other side of that,” Donovan said at the time. ‘You do have to throw open your eyes to it and listen, so you learn from it. One thing that I think is important that probably isn’t as well known is we met with…
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