Editor’s note: The above video is from June 28.
The Giants officially placed Joe Panik regard the 7-day concussion disabled list last Wednesday.
On Tuesday morning, he lose some light regard his circumstance along with 95.7 The Game‘s “Haberman and Middlekauff.”
“So once I got hit, simply going with it, you have actually your headaches and just what not. simply type of felt a minor from it at times. Yet with me, once you get hold of strike in the head, that’s normal. In simply talking along with the trainers, I told them that I’m fine. And I was going with the protocol — the straightforward stuff, straightforward protocol. They’re asking me ‘Exactly how you feeling?’ This and that. Asking me every one of these questions.
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“And at the time, my adrenaline is type of pumping. I told them, ‘Listen. I’m fine. I’m good.’ I passed particular examinations that I possessed to do. The following day I woke up, the inconvenience was still there, particular points were still there. I simply believed I was gonna pass. I was playing with particular points which I truly should not have.
“The whole time, I was having some concentration issues, particularly along with my vision. Yet I was able to get hold of a couple of crucial hits listed here and there throughout the week. I was type of simply playing regard it, figuring the cobwebs would certainly type of shake. It never ever went away. By the moment we got spine from Pittsburgh, the symptoms type of got worse. The vision started obtaining worse, headaches started obtaining a minor even worse … every little thing truly started to established in…
“I type of possessed to throw in the white flag. I was playing with some points — simply stupid regard my end, Yet at the time, you believe you’re gonna be great … obviously it simply got to the point where I possessed to state something.”
Are these concussion examinations dependent regard the user being honest along with the trainer?
“Yeah, there are particular points that you have actually to be honest along with … a great deal of it has actually to do along with being honest along with them. with someone adore me, it was foolish. I ought to have actually been a minor a lot more honest.”
Panik likewise pointed out that there is no genuine timetable with his return, Yet earned it certain that he is improving.
The 2015 All-Star was hit in the helmet by a pitch regard June 18 in Tampa Bay, Yet started 8 of the Giants’ following 9 games.
He was scratched regard June 28.