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Van Noy slams Chiefs medical staff for 'unprofessional' response to injury

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Ravens linebacker Kyle Van Noy isn't happy with the Kansas City Chiefs' athletic training staff for its response to an injury he sustained in Baltimore's season opener.

Van Noy revealed that he fractured his orbital bone in the third quarter of the Ravens' Week 1 loss to Kansas City. He said he waited for the Chiefs' in-house ophthalmologist after initially being treated by Baltimore's training staff but didn't see them for "an entire quarter."

"To me ... as a player, people have that expectation of you being professional, handling business," Van Noy said on his "McCoy and Van Noy" podcast, according to the Baltimore Banner's Jonas Shaffer. "And in a time of need, I wanted that from them, and I felt like I didn't get it."

He added that the response time was "super unprofessional" and "unacceptable because then you start thinking, 'What if I was trying to go back in the game? What if I was really, really hurt?'"

The Chiefs haven't commented on Van Noy's claims.

Van Noy was eventually taken to the emergency room at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He said the staff there did a "great job."

"If (the Chiefs) did have their hands on that, I do applaud them for that. ... But before that happened, I thought that was kind of ridiculous," Van Noy said.

Kansas City's training staff received a league-worst grade of "F" in an NFLPA survey of Chiefs players last season. Those players voiced concerns that "the training room is significantly understaffed, with only 43% of the team responding that they get an adequate amount of one-on-one treatment time," per Shaffer.

Van Noy registered one tackle and a QB hit before leaving the Week 1 contest. He described his injury as "moderate." Head coach John Harbaugh chose not to comment on the linebacker's ailment Monday.

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