American Football (NFL)
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SF- Denver game a shambles. 11-10 final. Anybody got Denver
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Talk about taking one for the team…. @Alex makes the Dolphins his pick against his favorite Bengals,knowing full well that his reverse Mojo would kick in and the Bengals would win,and Alex would be out. I think Alex would make that trade every week for the rest of the season. He also got a little extra help by me saying I expected the Dolphins to remain undefeated. Need a pick from @Matt
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I don't understand how the league would even let a team put a player in a two-concussions-in-five-days scenario. Should not have continued to play Sunday or played last night.
Friggin blood sport. The broader problem of CTE is difficult to navigate, but this should have been easy: concussion = miss the next couple of games at least (not a neurologist, just throwing out an idea). If Tua passed the concussion protocols last Sunday, the protocols are simply wrong.
Hope the kid is OK–this could be a life-changing injury and should never have happened.
Shame on the NFL and shame on McDaniel and the Dolphins. And you still lost.
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@mclaincausey But his injury the week prior was just his back (insert the largest eye roll in history here).
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Fan smack talk aside, Tua seems like a great kid and I agree @mclaincausey if a player is hurt, let 'em sit out and recover. Really should be that simple.
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Watching Tua seize up like that was brutal! Made my stomach turn. I have a feeling the Dolphins are in for a huge fine. Seems odd that there isn’t an independent doctor in charge of on field concussion evaluations. I’ve heard they have “spotters” that are leave appointed that watch from the sidelines or something that are supposed to help with this. Huge F up on this one. I hope the kid doesn’t suffer long term damage.
However, I hope the Broncos bring the pain to the Raiders this Sunday!!!
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Go Donks!!
They allegedly had a doctor sign off on his returning to the field against the Bills, which seems like malpractice to me. Pretty clearly a ding to the head caused the wobbles.
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I agree @mclaincausey
Sadly, they pulled Tua into claiming it was a back and ankle injury. He probably felt the pressure and the draw to get back into the game and compete. I think that decision should be taken out of the players hands completely and ruled my an unaffiliated doctor. Team doctors clearly have bias and pressure from owners.
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Yeah–no player is capable of making that decision, especially a concussed player. It is up to the doctor to honor the Hippocratic Oath and do the right thing. They need to be completely insulated from political pressure to skew their decision-making.
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I didn’t see any of the game last night,but after last week I was pretty surprised that he was playing this week. I was,wrongly,under the impression that the concussion protocol was totally taken out of the players/coaches hands and that there was a Concussion Protocol team that would dictate when a player was able to return to the game. A couple of people I heard on ESPN sports shows were really surprised that he didn’t have a concussion the previous week. It was a hot topic of conversation on my Woodford Reserve bourbon tour today.
