Hoofbite
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I saw the game where Tua was first injured. I am no doctor, but he looked like a boxer who just took a clean left hook to the chin. If Miami's doctors say it was a back injury then they better have the evidence to prove it, and I mean X-Rays and brain scans because a blow to the spine can knock a person down but I don't think it looks like Tua did. If Miami followed the concussion protocol then there is something wrong with the protocol. After seeing Tua stumble around I was shocked he played Thursday night.
The second injury was awful and the way his head hit the turf looked much more forceful than the first injury. Was the second injury worse because he was not recovered from the first? Or was the second injury just the result of a more forceful impact to the turf and whiplash? Again, if the doctors took scans of his head the first time, they should be able to answer this question.
At this point, Tua should go on IR and sit out at least a month, assuming he plays at all this year. Aikman will tell you that these concussions are cumulative and they come easier for some guys.
Finally, these whiplash concussions are going to be hard to eliminate. The tackle last night was violent and maybe it didn't have to be so but how to your take that out of the game?
The fact that they covered up the first one is what is going to make them pay. Everyone involved in that decision had better be shutting up and finding a lawyer because it's coming. If not from Tua himself then the NFLPA is probably going to file a suit on his behalf. If the NFLPA balks on this one, DeMaurice Smith better look at updating his resume because he's gonna have a revolt on his hands that will likely lead to him being removed from his role.
The Dolphins clearly lied and put Tua in danger because they were 3-0. If they were 0-3 then I don't think Tua is playing last night.
You say he looked like a boxer, and I would agree. I will also say that if he were in a boxing ring the referee would have stopped the fight the second he stumbled back down. Also, no boxing commission would have allowed that guy to fight again for weeks, if not months.