Tua out for Thursday?

[CarolinaBengalFanGuy]

(09-30-2022, 01:53 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Watch the hit from Sunday. He was pushed backwards. Not very forcefully. Pay attention to his head. When his back hit the turf it cause his head to snap backwards. That snapping motion is like the tip of a whip cracking from breaking the sound barrier. His neck acts as a lever that rapidly increases the acceleration of his head which increases the force exponentially. He had the same mechanism of injury last night, but his head was snapped sideways instead of backward while his body was being rotated (imagine how an ice skater speeds up during a spin combined with the mass of two players.) And you can’t judge the severity by the force of the hit because Player A’s concussion could be more severe due to less force than Player AB’s concussion. That’s one of the reasons why the grading systems aren’t used as much.

Having one concussion is a risk factor for a second concussion. Subsequent concussion may not require as much force to cause a concussion. Especially if the player should be in the return to play concussion protocol after a concussion four days earlier.

I actually watched that hit at the steakhouse. At the time I was calling Tua a ***** for leaving the game from a simple shove. I mean obviously I realized afterwards he really did get hurt (I didn't see him collapse though just the shove and fall).