Sean Payton Comments on Safety of NFL Helmets

March 26, 2016   ·   Danny Webster   ·   Jump to comments

New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton is optimistic that helmet safety in the NFL will improve at "warp speed" over the next couple of years.
As a guest on Russillo and Kanell on ESPN Radio on Friday, Payton said he's concerned about player safety in the short term, and helmets should be a top priority (via Mike Triplett of ESPN.com).
"I think the health ramifications and where we need to go, pushing the envelope quickly to catch up to speed with what we're dealing with—I would say, simply, start with the helmet," he said. "I would say we're way behind where should be right now with what we're putting on the players."
Payton told Ryen Russillo and Danny Kanell that he saw a prototype of a new helmet design while at the Senior Bowl in January:
It's amazing to see. If you took the analogy of an automobile in the '60s and '70s and how much of the impact passengers received in a collision and fast-forward to where we are now ... I think the...

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