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NFL Winners and Losers: If NFL cares about player safety, Azeez Al-Shaair will face a long suspension

Azeez Al-Shaair made a decision. He wanted to decimate Trevor Lawrence, his forearm up to the head of the Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback when he was well into a slide.

Now the NFL needs to make a decision on whether it takes player safety and blatantly dirty hits seriously. A suspension for the rest of the season would send the appropriate message.

You won't find a much dirtier hit than Al-Shaair put on Lawrence. He was probably lucky that he got ejected because the Jaguars seemed ready to turn it into a brawl with him after that hit.