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Gable sustained a concussion on the play and had to be helped off the field. The following day, Wynn was suspended for a game by the CFL.

“I’m feeling alright, I don’t feel any awkwardness or anything, I feel the same,” Gable said following practice. “It probably took me two or three days to really feel good. The first two days I was kind off a little bit, but then after a while, everything started clearing up.”

The consensus around CFL circles was the hit delivered by Davis was a football play, despite the contact to Gable’s head. The second by Wynn was a cheap shot.

“The second hit has no room in the game,” Maas said. “That’s just a bad decision on Wynn’s part if you ask me. I don’t know if he’s intentionally going out there to try and hurt anybody, but you have the decision to go down with your head and hit somebody else in the head, that’s what it looked like on film. I’ll let him describe it how he described it, obviously the league saw it as a finable offence.

“The other hit that put C.J. on the ground, that’s football. Football is a physical, violent sport. They all play it, they all know it. I think that is a perfectly legal and a perfectly fine hit. That’s my opinion.”

The hit by Davis did its share of damage to Gable and was devastating it its own right. The second needlessly finished him off.

“The first really dazed me,” Gable said. “The first hit was on the side of my head, it really got me, that’s why I spun around and my legs just died and I hit the ground. The second one cleared me out after that. I was done.