{"id":1779511,"date":"2022-12-18T17:33:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T22:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779511"},"modified":"2022-12-18T17:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T22:33:29","slug":"nfl-defensive-coordinator-rushed-to-hospital-on-stretcher-after-scary-on-field-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-defensive-coordinator-rushed-to-hospital-on-stretcher-after-scary-on-field-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Defensive Coordinator Rushed To Hospital On Stretcher After Scary On Field Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfl-defensive-coordinator-rushed-to-hospital-on-stretcher-after-scary-on-field-collision%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1779511&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons was transported to the hospital Sunday as the team was warming up ahead of their game against the New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtlanta Falcons Defensive Coordinator Dean Pees was involved in an on-field pregame collision,\u201d the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/news\/falcons-release-statement-on-defensive-coordinator-dean-pees\">said<\/a> in a statement. \u201cHe was stable, alert and responsive and has been transported to University Medical Center New Orleans for medical testing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrank Bush will serve as interim defensive play caller for today\u2019s game,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Pees, 73, is the oldest defensive coordinator in the league and came out of retirement to coach for the team, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/35278971\/falcons-dc-dean-pees-stretchered-pregame-collision\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It appears a member of Falcons staff was just carted off the field. Didn\u2019t see what happened. The person was being attended to by medical staff for a few minutes. <br \/>Working to find out who it was. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hYmlxZHEWM\">pic.twitter.com\/hYmlxZHEWM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Felder (@Justin_FOX5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Justin_FOX5\/status\/1604528172879544325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two touchdowns that the Saints scored in the first quarter of the game proved to be too much for the Falcons to come back from as New Orleans went on to win 21-18.<\/p>\n<p>The team later released a statement saying that after Pees was back with the team after having received treatment and evaluation at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtlanta Falcons Defensive Coordinator Dean Pees has been treated and released from University Medical Center New Orleans following an on-field pregame collision,\u201d the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantafalcons.com\/news\/falcons-update-defensive-coordinator-dean-pees-status\">said<\/a> in a new statement. \u201cHe will rejoin the Falcons for the flight back to Atlanta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-star-nfl-quarterback-rushed-to-the-hospital-after-devastating-hit\">WATCH: Star NFL Quarterback Rushed To The Hospital After Devastating Hit<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons was transported to the hospital Sunday as the team was warming up ahead of their game against the New Orleans Saints. \u201cAtlanta Falcons Defensive Coordinator Dean Pees was involved in an on-field pregame collision,\u201d the team said in a statement. \u201cHe was stable, alert and responsive and has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1779514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10119,10120,6202,9623,7196,3870,7215,7911,10122,10121,6195],"class_list":["post-1779511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-collision","tag-coordinator","tag-daily","tag-defensive","tag-field","tag-hospital","tag-nfl","tag-rushed","tag-scary","tag-stretcher","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1779514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}