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Kelly Stafford isn't playing games erstwhile it comes to her husband's health.

More than a week aft Matthew Stafford was placed successful NFL concussion protocol for the 2nd clip this season, Kelly shared her thoughts on the Los Angeles Rams quarterback's possible instrumentality to the field.

"If it was up to me, you guys cognize however I would consciousness but it's not up to me," she said connected the Nov. 29 occurrence of The Morning After podcast. "It's my hubby and what helium worked for…I emotion that he's a competitor. I emotion that helium wants to beryllium retired there."

When Kelly questioned wherefore Matthew would privation to spell backmost retired connected the shot tract and compete, his reply impressed her.

"He looked astatine maine and said, ‘If I'm steadfast capable to go, the players trust connected me," she recalled. "‘My teammates, the coach, the owner, everyone relies connected maine and I person to gain the paycheck. I was paid to play. I wasn't paid to sit. So if I'm steadfast capable to go, I'm gonna go.' You can't truly combat with that."

For now, she is continuing to explicit her hopes that the NFL volition marque changes erstwhile it comes to the fields players vie on. Instead of squad turf, she's rooting for writer fields.

"My happening is again, the caput slamming connected the turf," she said. "That is wherever the propulsion needs to be…My instrumentality is, ‘How are you not pushing this erstwhile you cognize concussions are a problem?' It's an casual fix."

Kelly added, "He's ever going to beryllium astatine hazard erstwhile helium plays this crippled and I cognize they ‘sign up for it.' But if you tin marque amended moving conditions for your employees, wherefore not bash it?"