Agreed. The short week cannot possibly be good for players with injury concerns
Just when it couldn't get any worse
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How about DumbMorris pound his fists about why there’s Thursday night football in the first place, or a 17th game soon to be 18 since he’s so concerned about player safety.
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Thursday Night football provides revenue, which in turn increases the salary cap. Likewise, the extra game means more revenue.
They care about player safety when it's convenient, which is to say: When it doesn't influence the bottom line.
Friday and Saturday night games make much more sense.
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WE shall see I don't like it though they will make the Phins the "Bad Guy" here.
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Friday and Saturday nights are out until December do to an agreement with college ball.
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While I agree that the hit tonight could be the sole cause of the injury. I think we would be just as wrong to say it couldn't have been an accumulation of last week and this week. At this point we just don't know. We may never know. Just because the onsite neuro doctor cleared him to come back in the game doesn't mean he didn't or couldn't have suffered a brain injury last week. Some times the damage or extent of the damage isn't know until after a brain scan or in some cases an autopsy.
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I absolutely HATE social media for exactly this reason.
All the "doctors" and "experts" quick to assume fins/Drs faked/misdiagnosed Tua. Tua was rushed back.
I don't even have Twitter and barely even open FB because of crap like this.
All the "doctors" and "experts" quick to assume fins/Drs faked/misdiagnosed Tua. Tua was rushed back.
I don't even have Twitter and barely even open FB because of crap like this.
I truly believe if he had a concession in the Bills game he wouldn’t have been able to come back and perform the way he did in the 2nd half of that game.
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I'm pretty concerned about his neck and back. Hope it's not gonna be a case of Ray Lucas 2.0. Poor guy was tortured with pain from his injuries well after his career.
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I think that would depend on the severity of the concussion and the location of the brain that was damaged. Remember, it wasn't long ago players got concussions regularly and they went undiagnoised and unnoticed. Such as tonight, the doctors are saying the posturing Tua was doing with his arms and fingers was not in itself an indication of the severity of the injury. Sometimes youcan do serious damage and not know it. Sometimes you can have obvious signs, but not do as much damage as originally feared.
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are they also going to look into what that dirty POS 300 + pound bengals player did to Tua when he slammed his head into the ****ing field?!We're seriously cursed...
DeMaurice Smith vows to pursue "every legal option" regarding the handling of Tua Tagovailoa on Sunday
The biggest concern emerging from Thursday night's game between the Dolphins and Bengals is whether Miami quarterback Tua Tagovailoa should have been playing.profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
I can already seeing the media run this bullshit false narrative starting tomorrow morning. (hell, they did the same thing with Flores' lies and made the general public believe it all)
anyways, right now I don't give a **** about Demaurice Smith or the loss tonight. I can only hope & pray that Tua is going to pull thru and get better.
But my whole point is him getting injured tonight might not have anything to do with what happened to him against Bills. Plus he had plenty of time to throw the ball away on that play and didn’t. If he did he wouldn’t have gotten hit and injured.
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I was responding to the portion that said "it was the hit tonight that caused the injury." Implying that last week's injury was a non-factor. At this point that's possibility, but it could equally be a compounded effect of both hits. Right now we don't know and we may never really know.
As for him not throwing the ball away, yes we can agree that should have happened. However, if he sides steps that defender and then hits a big play down field people would be praising him staying patient in the pocket. How many times have we seen Brady or Rodgers stand there for what seems like forever and make big play downfield and nobody calls them out for not throwing the ball away earlier. I think after we've seen the result of the play it's easier to say that he should have got rid of it, but if we're going to do that we should be consisen.
