Falcons coach Dan Quinn said the team sent the NFL video of the questionable hit that knocked punter Matt Bosher out of Thursday's exhibition game at Cleveland.
Bosher was covering a punt several yards behind the play when Browns linebacker Tank Carder blindsided him with a hit. Bosher left the game with what the Falcons said was a chest injury.
Referees did not call a penalty on the play.
“We’d like to ask the league their opinion on if it was a defenseless hit or not,” Quinn said Friday. “We sent it in. The main thing is Bosher is OK. He’s taken a big hit and he was shaken up but I talked to him today and he’s definitely better. I’m not sure he will be available (to practice) this week. He will be limited.”
Bosher is the only punter on the Falcons roster. Kicker Nick Rose took over the role after Bosher left the game Thursday.
Quinn said the Falcons plan to try out punters over the next couple of days so they will have an option if Bosher is held out of Thursday’s game against the Dolphins.
“There is no guarantee we will sign one,” Quinn said. “It’s not that level of an injury.”
Carder, in a post to his Twitter account, defended his hit against Bosh.
“I leaned on him, I could of (sic) made that hit a lot worse but pulled off and gave him a shoulder,” Carter wrote.
Bosher, 28, is in his sixth season as Falcons punter after the team selected him in the sixth round of the draft out of the University of Miami. Bosher is known as an aggressive tackler on punt coverage going back to his college days and has said he takes pride in it.
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