Concussions are a nature of the beast. There’s no way to tell when it will happen again. If they’re scared to put Tua on the field because of what’s being said even after passing all the tests then they should just let him retire. Players in this game get concussions, can’t stop it. It was magnified because it was on prime time and the injury prior happened so close to it.
I'm very realistic and I know how it works. Once a player is cleared to play after having a concussion they usually play the very next game. That's what I see happening with Tua. He already did testing and everything came back clean. They have no authority to keep a player out once he is cleared to return.
Sorry I meant we were already punished by the league this year for a different matter. Once bitten twice shy imo
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What most of you guys are ignoring, is that it is being assumed that Tua has had two concussions in a four day span. Of course if we were only talking about what happened in the Cincinnati game all it would take is him clearing protocol and he would be back. The whole world is in uproar because they believe Tua shouldn’t have played against Cincinnati and because he did, he got another concussion. What would the reaction be if he sustained another concussion this year? The league will definitely be sensitive to that.
The league doesn’t but the team does. I don’t know if that’ll happen and maybe I’m just used to things going as bad as they can for us. I do find it weird that Tua is the only player with vitriol and outrage attached to his situation. The bills Db went to the hospital with a similar if not more scary injury and played today. Where the headlines and talk show hosts coming unglued?
'The Whole World....." that view speaks to the paranoia that prevents people from achieving great things. Tua, I am sure is not made from the same cloth of FEAR
Right, either let him play or shut down the whole f'in league and we can all just watch figure skating.
And how are they going to be able to prove that he actually did have a concussion in the Bills game? Tua and McDaniel already said it was a back injury.
I'm actually thinking that may have been Tuas last game as a fin. Regardless of how he was doing and his improvements, he is out every single year for something different. This is the icing on the cake. It is now political and is being scrutinized with a fine comb. If they let him play again this year I will be shocked. I think his injury history will garner the Dolphins to think QB in the draft.
How come every time I hear figure skating, I immediately think of that girl who busted out the knees of that other girl??!! Lmao
He was cleared after the Buffalo game also. It hasn’t stopped the outrage from the media and the talking heads. Listen, I don’t even think he had a concussion in the Buffalo game, but it really doesn’t matter what you or I think, most people believe it. Perception is reality in this case. Hell, a doctor was already fired over it and the league made a rule change because of it. Don’t act like the league isn’t feeling the pressure. Nobody wants to see Tua back in the field more than I do. I think the season is over if he doesn’t return. I couldn’t bare having to watch Bridgewater play for an extended period of time.
What you don’t get is how can the league keep him from playing once he is medically cleared to play? That would start a firestorm as well. Players get concussions all the time and a lot of them come back the very next week. Tua would be no different.
