Denver: Denver Broncos linebacker Joe Mays has been suspended for one match by the NFL after he hit Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub on Sunday.
Mays is appealing the suspension, a league source told ESPN NFL.
John Fox, Broncos coach, defended the Mays’ hit on Monday. The attack cost the quarterback Schaub a chunk of his ear.
“I know this: He doesn’t do it intentionally to hurt him,” Fox said. “That’s not Joe Mays. That’s not what we teach. It’s accidental. Playing football. You see it around the league every week.”
Schaub went through his normal Monday routine and looked “fine” the day after losing a bit of his left ear lobe.
Schaub still tied a career high with four touchdown passes in the Texans’ 31-25 victory and only missed one snap after Mays dazed him.
“I felt fine,” Schaub said after the game Sunday. “I just lost a piece of my ear. I was bleeding and my helmet came off. So, I had to come out for a play, but I was fine.”
“Obviously, he took a really good shot there,” Texans coach Gary Kubiak said. “That’s the league’s job, to sort those things out. Obviously, we protect our players. If we think something is wrong, we turn it into the league and then they’ve got to go sort that out. We’re just fortunate our guy is fine, and we just move onto the next one.”
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