Amid a challenging season for the Baldwin High School football team, the athletic director reached out to the athletic directors for its upcoming opponents, asking them to potentially take it easier on their team to help them deal with player-safety concerns.

KDKA's Jessica Guay spoke with Baldwin's football coach, Dana Brown, who said he believes the email that athletic director Tony Cherico sent out to other ADs was meant to start a conversation to discuss potential safety plans in case they need to resort to them. Options in the email included playing under a running clock or other teams using junior varsity players more.

"It was kind of presented like here goes option a, here goes option b, this is option c, " Brown said. "No, we don't want to do this. No one really wants to do it. B

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