{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The HeadRush Podcast with Paul Frase","title":"After the NFL: The Fight for Care, Benefits & Accountability","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4882,"description":"They helped build the NFL. Now some former players are fighting just to get the care, benefits and answers they believe they were promised.\n\nNearly a decade into the NFL concussion settlement, members of the NFL Player Advocacy Committee say retired players and their families are still navigating delays, denials, medical reviews, legal complexity and a system many struggle to understand.\n\nSo who fights for the players when they can no longer fight for themselves?\n\nThat last sentence is especially important because Roxanne describes wives becoming advocates after seeing players with brain injuries who could no longer effectively advocate for themselves.\nFormer NFL players spent years putting their bodies—and their brains—on the line for the game.\n\nBut what happens after football ends?\n\nIn this episode of The HeadRush Podcast, Paul Frase and Corey Berry sit down with members of the NFL Player Advocacy Committee (PAC)—Roxanne McCrae, Ricky Ray and former NFL offensive lineman and coach Irv Eatman—for an unfiltered conversation about the NFL concussion settlement and the former players and families still trying to navigate it.\n\nThe PAC was created to advocate for fairness, transparency and accountability while helping former players understand a process its members describe as difficult, confusing and inconsistent. The conversation explores a settlement involving roughly 20,000 former players and the obstacles that can stand between a player, a diagnosis and compensation. \n\nPaul, Corey and the panel discuss:\n\nWhy former players need independent advocacy\nThe complexity of the NFL concussion settlement\nDelays, denials, appeals and medical evaluations\nParkinson’s, ALS, TBI and repeated head impacts\nThe enormous burden placed on wives, caregivers and families\nWhy some players simply give up fighting\nWhat the PAC believes needs to change\nWhat today’s players can learn from the generations who came before them\n\nAt one point, the panel states that approximately 20,000...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/NjrmzZaTagXj-R-bVK3-S68yVZIoWQ_Fi-H6bjhL9d0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYWVm/OGY1OWVhZjA2MTNk/Yzg1ZWFjMmRjMWUy/ZWZjNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}