Tua concussed
- Thread starter drubendall
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He got his money, he needs to retire before he shortens his life any more than he already has.
If you’re a defender, you’re thinking I gotta be careful or I might kill this guy. Sure looks like his brain is broken.
Can he really keep coming back from these? Hate to tell man when it’s over, but it might be over…
His family and doctors Fk the Dolphins or NFL doctors. Have to make the decision to call it.
He needs to tap out before he becomes the president.
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Due to coaching I have to take annual concussion CTE training. Historically, the rule was after your third concussion, the athlete needs to retire. Beware, there are emerging studies out there allegedly funded by the NFL, NSL, et al., that propound that athletes can continue to come back from a third and even forth concussion and compete.
And these studies are probably ran by the doctors that treated Mike Webster and Junior Seau etc:: LOL
Certainly wasn’t helmet to helmet but I believe concussions tend to be easier to get if one has a prior history.
I think after 3 one should retire. I mean, I was questioning him coming back after the first two. Who here was thinking the same thing? Remember all three of his concussions looked really bad. It's kind of like me. I'm way too old to play contact football, but I've had detached retinas. There's no way I would jeopardize my vision, let alone the whole brain like it is with Tua.
RetinaS? As in both eyes or same eye twice?. I had one last November. Really sucked.
easier to get and they get worse... have had 3 from football/bike accidents. third one was awful.
I had a tear in one eye in 2015. They laser tacked it said it was good. Told me to come back in a month. I was at work almost 30 days later and I realized that I was experiencing the same symptoms. It was the same eye but the opposite corner. This time it was two small tears. So, I had to have the major operation. They laser tacked my eye once again, but I had major surgery the next morning. Had to put gas in my eye. That procedure made me need cataract surgery 6 months later. I already had the right eye done in 2010. But because they didn't do them close together they had to match up the eyes to the severely near-sighted eye. I am so effed today. LOL
I was shocked the Fish signed him to that contract for this very reason.
Terrible contract from a football standpoint alone, he wasn't worth it, now tack on another concussion...and if you're the Fish...now what?
Tua probably should have never suited up again prior to this. Be real interesting to see if he ever takes another snap.
Terrible contract from a football standpoint alone, he wasn't worth it, now tack on another concussion...and if you're the Fish...now what?
Tua probably should have never suited up again prior to this. Be real interesting to see if he ever takes another snap.
If a player retires (as i always understood it anyway), his salary no longer counts against the cap....will Tua do that? I doubt it. The Dolphins obviously aren't going to cut him. So my guess is (since Tua holds all the cards with that massive contract he juat signed) ..they negotoate a buyout/retirement and everyone wins. My guess is he's played his last down of football...at least I hope so.
I had the major one in my right eye. Face down for 2 weeks. Still got the bad cataract. Do not want to go through that again.
He needs to retire. Not only the concussions but he had a severe hip injury. His body has had it and it's time to quit.
Football careers tend to be short and I'm starting to really look at NIL as a good way to compensate players earlier in life so they aren't bound to play longer than necessary.
Football careers tend to be short and I'm starting to really look at NIL as a good way to compensate players earlier in life so they aren't bound to play longer than necessary.
Just so perplexing that a guy with that concussion history, who was borderline on if he should be out there in the first place, going lowering his head after already having the 1st. Did he think he was Josh Allen for a brief moment?
so sorry to hear that you're having problems with your eyes. That really sucks. I battle arthritis from all the "fun" I've had in my life and I would much rather deal with that than my eyesight.
Whether he decides to retire or not, I can't imagine a possible scenario where he ever sees a field as a player again. Even if he's okay, that would be REALLY bad optics for the NFL, the Dolphins, hell...sports in general. Like really really bad.
NFL and Dolphins are going to have a massive lawsuit on their hands if he continues to play. This guy is going to die on the field or become a vegetable at some point. His wife or parents needs to tell him to hang it up. He's already past the point of no return and hopefully he doesn't have too many issues later on in life, but I think he already will.
Agreed. For as much research as has been done on CTE, it would be criminally negligent to trot him out there again. It’s over dolphins. make a trade or draft your next quarterback
