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Kyle Van Noy fell victim to a freak injury when the Ravens headed to Kansas City to face off against the Chiefs last Thursday, and he wasn’t shy about calling out the training staff for the opposing team for taking their sweet time to evaluate the broken eye socket he was eventually diagnosed with.
The Kansas City Chiefs may be one of the best teams in the NFL, but the Commanders were the only team in the league that received worse grades across the board on the report cards the NFLPA issued last season after surveying more than 1,700 players about various aspects of all 32 franchises.
Andy Reid’s coaching was really the only major bright spot on an evaluation where the Chiefs received four Fs (including the F- given to owner Clark Hunt), which included a training staff that received a lower mark than any other team in the NFL.
Those grades were based on what members of the organization had to say about their experience, but Ravens linebacker Kyle Van Noy co-signed the evaluation while calling out the medical staff for failing to see him in a timely manner after he was forced to head to the locker room during his team’s 27-20 loss at Arrowhead Stadium.
During the most recent installment of the McCoy & Van Noy podcast, the LB was rocking sunglasses thanks to the “pretty good” orbital bone fracture he suffered when one of his teammates fell on him after his helmet came dislodged during a play in the third quarter, and he made it very clear he wasn’t thrilled with what unfolded after he was forced to leave the field to have it evaluated.
Van Noy called out the Chiefs training staff for being “super unprofessional” due to its belated response to his request to see a specialist, saying:
“When you get hurt, especially something that could be serious like mine was, you’re supposed to rely on the team’s training staff or their doctors, and I was supposed to see an ophthalmologist…
They took an entire quarter to get down to talk to me in the locker room, which, to me, is unacceptable because then you start thinking, ‘What if I was trying to go back in the game? What if I was really, really hurt?'”
Van Noy said he didn’t think the delay had anything to do with the fact that he was a member of the opposing team but acknowledged he still took the possibility into consideration, and he went out of his way to praise the staff at the University of Kansas hospital where he was treated after the game for doing an “awesome job” when he was admitted.
As of this writing, it’s unclear if he’ll be able to suit up when the Ravens face off against the Raiders on Sunday.