Tua out for Thursday?

[dr tarzan]

(09-30-2022, 05:20 AM)CarolinaBengalFanGuy Wrote: I still feel like he didn't even take that bad of a hit and it makes me wonder even more if he was already suffering concussion symptoms leading to him getting knocked the hell out so easily. I mean it was a good smack on the ground but I've seen guys get up from significantly worse.

Sad thing is Teddy Bridgewater is a very qualified and experienced backup. To be honest I bet they are more dangerous on the deep ball with him. Short week, hurricane BS coming through. Let your veteran backup play the game and let Tua get some rest. Even if it was back and ankle injuries he still could have and probably should have needed the rest.

Won't lie though if there was something being hidden it feels like Tua was in on it and wanting to play through it himself. He's going to have to learn to be extremely careful if/when he returns as you do not need to be taking unnecessary chances with brain injuries. I feel like we just watched his career drastically become shortened after tonight.

I concur.   As most folks who follow contact sports know, the concussions are a cumulative injury.   Each successive one requires less of an impact, recalling Moose Johnston.... his last one was a routine tackle where he didn't even  have a head impact. 
When they are so severe that it involves the kind of posturing Tua did after this last one, it is going to have lasting effect.   Like you said, we see many such impacts that guys pop up and run to the huddle, his brain is going to be mush after the next one.    I would not be surprised to see season ending IR for him.

Last weeks "back and ankle" injury was total bullshit.    It doesn't take a trained eye to see when someone is staggering from a neurologic condition versus an orthopedic one.  OK,  maybe sometimes it does.  But Mine is, anyway, and that was no orthopedic stagger.    Tua and the Dolphins medical and coaching staff ignored their own instincts and placed this too dedicated player's career and possibly, life, at risk.  If some heads don't roll on this one, someone just isn't looking for malfeasance or malpractice hard enough.