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Originally Posted by mrkajz44
His narrative is he was concussed and confused; he didn't see the linesman until the last minute and then it was too late. His hands went up as a reaction to something about to run into him.
His text echos this: Since it was just an accident, nothing should have come from it. From his point of view this is just a (social) media witch hunt based on one camera angle that plays for 5 seconds.
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I don't know if that's his narrative though. In fact it seems he has had a couple narrative.
When he was talking to his experts after the fact, to get the concussion diagnosis, this was what he said:
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Dr. Kutcher testified that he based his opinion, in part, on the fact that Mr. Wideman told him
that he "vaguely remembers skating to the bench. He remembers some incident occurring, but
he does not recall who he hit [or] how he hit the individual. "
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That's an extremely different narrative than he accidentally ran into someone after looking up. I mean, either he lied to his doctor to get a favourable diagnosis, which is shady as ####. Or he lied about remembering the event to give himself a favourable narrative. Either way, he deserves the 20 game ban as far as I'm concerned... at least.
Also, whoever told Wideman to lie should be fired on the spot.
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Mr. Wideman testified at the hearing that he had been instructed to give a misleading answer if asked about his
condition and that he followed that instruction.
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