State of Play: Peter Berg Series on HBO

Van Everyman

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Watching the one on the NFL safety right now. Hard to believe this isn't getting more attention. Goodell, Jerry Jones and a bunch of NFL execs discussing NFL safety. Lots of discussion about how they penalize and suspend players and brain and spinal cord injuries. On one hand they're talking about how they're keeping players safe and trying to "teach proper technique." On the other, Berg has them acknowledging that safety is problem – and that it could destroy the game of football at all levels in society. Berg even gets Jerrah to talk about the justification behind the Sherriff's $44M payday.

What say others about this?
 

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(Obligatory "The original British version was better" comment)
 
I only saw the original State of Play: Trophy Kids episode--it was interesting, but the roundtable discussion was pretty pointless and it turned out that all the documentary footage was cut down from a longer full-length doc; you were better off (IMO) skipping the cut-down episode and watching the original doc.  Is this built the same way?