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Originally Posted by mrkajz44
I don't think him saying: "I was out of it and don't really know what happened there" is mutually exclusive from the stance of "it was an accident". To me, those two ideas are in line with each other and make sense. The narrative reads "I was a bit out of it, and I think I ran into someone by accident on my way to the bench"..
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His stance though wasn't that it was just an accident and wasn't sure what happened. He said that he tried to avoid the collision last minute.
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In addition, I do not credit Mr. Wideman's
testimony. In particular, I do not credit his testimony that he tried to avoid the linesman at the last
minute.
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In another interview after the play:
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“And I was kind of keeled over and at the last second, I looked up and I saw him and I couldn’t avoid it.”
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Wideman, during his testimony and to the press, was suggesting that it was just an accident and he didn't see the linesman until it was too late, indicating that he does recall the event. At least that's what it appears to suggest pretty clearly.
But the concussion experts, who Wideman had talked to and suggested that he didn't "register" the event and didn't even recall who he hit are not the same thing. These are mutually exclusive events.