Yeah, don't skip too far because the guy doing 90% of the bleeding is probably unconscious in the dressing room by the end, and it didn't look like Pierroth was getting carried out by legit medical professionals.
Based on the ESPN report, he couldn't have been less persuasive or less well informed than the Eagles' owner.
Perhaps players or ex players are not the best placed to know what's best for players but if there's a group of people less interested in such things, it would be the owners.
So called "smart" penalties are, to me, one of the most irritating things in sport and a sure sign that deliberately cheating is not being punished hard enough. Automatic scores if a foul stops a sure-fire score, please and thank you.