I'm one of Tua's biggest fans on the board. These concussions are VERY serious and the teams biggest problem by far. This year showed that he is prone to get concussions quite easily. When he came back he wasn't the same QB. He NEVER really regained his form once injured. We are hoping with a capital H that he will come back all better and light it up with Waddle and Hill. As an insurance policy if a guy like Hooker is there with our #2 we should make it happen. Start developing a young guy right away. Hooker has great size, he's slick with his feet and he can make all the throws, We also need a veteran to back up Tua and it's got to be a guy that can win us some games if uno is out. Than we've temporarily solved the QB room which killed our season this year. We had nobody behind Tua and that included Skyler who's a project imo and Teddy who simply stole our money.
Let's not kid ourselves about what we all saw very clearly this season. We have a huge problem with these concussions. It would be amazingly great to never see Tua hurt again but I fear that long term it might go the wrong way. So typical Dolphin, we get the greatest QB ever and of course, there's an injury issue that could derail his career. I couldn't be more angry and disappointed but those are the cards we are holding. That's why I think we better start developing a guy like Hooker or someone similar.
I somewhat disagree that he is prone to get concussions very easily.
The shot he took against the Bengals was insanely bad, can't remember a shot taken by a QB in the last 10 years that was as brutal as that one.
So though he looked really bad early, that night he seemed to have shaken it off, and was on the plane with his team, and only took two weeks before he came back...Though I was extremely guilty of of hoping to see him back sooner rather then later, truth seems he probably should not have come back for at the very least a month.
The 2nd concussions happened in the Packers game. Tua was lighting up the Packers, and looked like Miami might score around 40 on the Packers, but one hit triggered back what seemed like the ongoing Concussion he had during the Bengals game.
You have to admit the QB Tua was in the first three games was not exactly the QB he was when he came back. He looked like that QB in quite a few games, but he was not as consistent as he normally is...especially in the 2nd half and more specifically the 4th quarter. That should have told us that Tua was not 100%, something was off.
The Dolphins 100% shut him down after the Packers game, and he will be getting all the rest and getting healthy this whole off-season. Next season we should have an actual healthy version of Tua, if he again resorts to having Concussion symptoms or goes back to again being in Concussion protocol, then can we say he might be prone to Concussion.
For now that cheapshot (that as I said earlier, if it has happened to, Brady the NFL would have gone after the defensive player with all they had including huge suspension) was just to huge a shot for anyone, and Tua just might have needed more time to get back to 100% healthy.
