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Your Brain is Designed to Distrust Tua: Let a Neurospecialist Teach You Why

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 There’s a trend on social media you may have recently encountered; inversed videos of Tua Tagovailoa throwing as a righty. Predictably, below the tweets are countless of replies acknowledging how much “…cleaner and better” he looks as a righty. Even Tagovailoa’s trainer replied “…someone explain this phenomena.”
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Here’s the neurology behind this: when your eyes see Tagovailoa begin to execute a pass, they reflect this atypical stimuli to your occipital lobe (i.e., cerebral lobe located in the rear of your brain, it controls vision processing and image response), which then scans your temporal lobe (i.e., housing visual memory) for other examples of a lefty throwing a football but comes up empty, when it doesn’t find enough data points to confirm the normalcy of what you’re viewing, it yells frantically to your frontal lobe and amygdala (i.e., where your emotions and memories interact) “…something is wrong, this isn’t usual, we’re not accustomed to this, I don’t like this.” This all happens in a split second.
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These same mechanisms occur with Tagovailoa and other lefty quarterbacks, every time they drop back and release the football. For context, the exclusivity of seeing a lefty QB is far more than you may imagine. Aside from only having 30 in the NFL since 1950, consider the constant visual reinforcement you get for righty quarterbacks. Let’s say you watch College Football and NFL highlights for each game this upcoming weekend, you will see (approximately) 150 right-handed quarterbacks to 5 lefties. Now expand that ratio across years of viewing football…the chasm between the two mental images will eventually be in the hundreds of thousands. Worse, the lack of exposure to lefty quarterbacks not only leads to an odd feeling but more specifically, distrust. (New York University, 2018).
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Turns out your brain is an asshole. I know mine is!
 
Travis34 said:
How many stupid hits did he take in this last game??

How about the spin move to elude the pass rusher then throw a touchdown? Seemed pretty aware of his surroundings
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Yep, Tua also floated outside the hash marks on the first TD to Cheetah giving him extra time for him to get deep, and moved up then out of the pocket to hit Penguin for the game winner after the play design didn’t work.

Anyone thinking Tua doesn’t have pocket awareness isn’t watching.
 
Travis34 said:
How many stupid hits did he take in this last game??

How about the spin move to elude the pass rusher then throw a touchdown? Seemed pretty aware of his surroundings
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Tua did great last game.

Fans are too negative on Tua - I’m not one of them….

Tua takes bad hits because he tries to throw the ball upon being hit….BIG problem….fix it!!!
 
AdamD13 said:
Yep, Tua also floated outside the hash marks on the first TD to Cheetah giving him extra time for him to get deep, and moved up then out of the pocket to hit Penguin for the game winner after the play design didn’t work.

Anyone thinking Tua doesn’t have pocket awareness isn’t watching.
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Tua’s pocket presence is good not great.

He is very competitive and keeps his head down field -

Pocket presence is intuitive - his sense is decent not extraordinary…his problem is he extends while being hit - bad idea!!!
 
The clip with him throwing right handed is pretty cool. Tua was so resilient last week I was so impressed with his demeanor while the season was potentially falling apart. Now that he’s had a comeback like that his confidence has to be sky high. Love to see it
 
Someone posted about this already, I think, and I thought it was ridiculous.

They covered it this morning on GMFB, and they reversed the throws of Allen and Mahomes.

The entire crew of GMFB agreed with me: Debunked hypothesis
 
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AdamD13 said:
Yep, Tua also floated outside the hash marks on the first TD to Cheetah giving him extra time for him to get deep, and moved up then out of the pocket to hit Penguin for the game winner after the play design didn’t work.

Anyone thinking Tua doesn’t have pocket awareness isn’t watching.
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Anyone thinking Tua has bad pocket awareness needs to watch Tannehill play.
 
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