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Kelly Stafford is struggling to emotion the crippled of football.

More than a week aft Los Angeles Rams backmost Matthew Stafford was placed into concussion protocol, his woman is speaking retired and sharing caller penetration into wherefore encephalon wellness needs to beryllium a precedence successful the NFL.  

"I genuinely emotion watching my hubby vie and bash thing helium loves," she said connected the Nov. 15 occurrence of The Morning After podcast. "It's what gives him joy, truthful it gives maine joy. But would I springiness it up successful a heartbeat? 1,000 percent. I'd springiness up the football, the money, the fame, everything. I don't request that. I conscionable request the antheral I fell successful emotion with to beryllium the aforesaid antheral for my kids and the beingness that we are going to live."

While trying to clasp backmost tears, Kelly said she didn't autumn successful emotion with Matthew the shot player. Instead, she fell successful emotion with a antheral who would beryllium a large dada for their children: 5-year-old twins Chandler and Sawyer, arsenic good as Hunter, 4, and Tyler Hall, 2.

On Nov. 9, Los Angeles Rams caput manager Sean McVay confirmed to reporters that Matthew had entered concussion protocol. He did not play successful the team's latest crippled connected Nov. 13. 

While Kelly didn't privation to stock excessively galore details astir her husband's injury, the podcast big expressed however arrogant she is of Matthew for pressing intermission connected his play to absorption connected his health. 

"I deliberation this was astir apt a stack up of hits," she said. "I deliberation his caput yet said, 'I conscionable request a break' and made him alert of it."

While Matthew's instrumentality to the shot tract remains TBD, Kelly said helium is seeing a specializer and consulting with experts to spot however helium tin champion instrumentality attraction of his encephalon health. She besides revealed that her hubby of 7 years isn't done throwing touchdown passes.

"I cognize he's not acceptable to springiness it up," she said. "He has to beryllium the 1 to marque that determination and I cognize he's not acceptable and I cognize determination volition beryllium a clip erstwhile helium is. Matthew is not going to beryllium the Tom Brady of the world. But I cognize close present is not the extremity and that's a hard happening to wrapper my caput around." 

In her latest podcast episode, Kelly said she wasn't sharing her acquisition to complain. Instead, she hopes to spark a speech astir concussions successful the NFL.