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knoxvol52 said:
The hit was just as much Tua's doing as it was Hamlin. Tua went head first into the tackle, I mean history on concussions and you do this really unusual. Slide next time if there even is a next time.
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yep. You could tell it impacted Damar. He reacted pretty negative to his own actions as he got off the ground and realized what had happened.
 
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chuckiepoo said:
yep. You could tell it impacted Damar. He reacted pretty negative to his own actions as he got off the ground and realized what had happened.
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I only saw it once, but it looked like Damar gave him the slightest forearm shiver, but that could be self-protection, given that he was the one being run into. I didn't see that he blasted him. But I admire Damar more that he was concerned.

I have always hated Tua (pos Bammer imo), but I hate seeing him getting concussed. And to add a layer of irony: now that Jaylen Wright is with the Fins, I was rooting for Tua.

I almost wanted to retract my "hawk tua" jokes after he threw the picks. 😂
 
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chuckiepoo said:
yep. You could tell it impacted Damar. He reacted pretty negative to his own actions as he got off the ground and realized what had happened.
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People reflexively throw around "thoughts and prayers". I choose not to.

My specific thoughts and prayers are that the players association steps in and saves Tua from himself. I view Tua, right now as a man with a temperarily addled brain about to make a life altering decision of when or if he should play football again. It's like someone who is legally drunk at a bar deciding if they can drive home or not.

Of COURSE they are capable of making their way home, but their judgment is off, so it SEEMS completely reasonable to have another drink.

Right now, even if cleared to play, Tua should take 6 weeks off from football or any activity where he could easily damage his brain more than it is right now. For example; he shouldn't even go water skiing.

My thought and prayer is for Tua to take the over the next few weeks is to go spend time with former football players that sustained 5-7 significant concussion in their life. So that includes any concussions from anything INCLUDING the NFL. NOT just while in the NFL. He would discover many completely broken men that are complete forgotten who live in quiet desperation and spend a lot of time alone in darkened rooms in pain from migraines and have difficulty even remaining up right while navigating a set of stairs or a hallway.

Players and fans should be completely aware of the consequences concussion 10 to 30 years after they take of their cleats for the last time.

Parents of middle school and high school players should be aware of the consequences of 6 or 7 concussions.

Metaphorically, take a look at a large sprig of broccoli and approximate that's a human brain. Then remove one square centimeter of the surface of the broccoli sprig or even half a square centimeter. The green little capsules and the support structure are metaphorically like the human brain. The removed part is a concussion. It will never heal. Ever.

The human brain stores information as well runs the system that IS our bodies. Our hormones, thoughts, dreams etc etc and it's very good at reorganizing itself with redundancy and maintenance of neurologic pathways and THAT's why people seem ok after several weeks. The problem is, those dead spots are never coming back, ever. So as we age, eventually the last redundancy goes away and that's why very old people seem fine until a day comes when they can't find their way home from an errand or complete lose their appetite or some other interfunction suddenly fails and they died of "natural causes", which they did, but their capacity to maintain ran out early because of concussions.

That's my thought and pray people, not just Tua, choose to actively learn about the long term consequences of concussion.

Seriously, Tua was on the ground in the fencing position. It couldn't be more obvious how damaged he already is, yet, somehow it's a question of IF and when he should walk away from football. That should no longer be the case in 2024.

The players association should contemplate if the above has any merit in how they collectively deal with future concussions of all players.
 
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Drewbydoo said:
People reflexively throw around "thoughts and prayers". I choose not to.

My specific thoughts and prayers are that the players association steps in and saves Tua from himself. I view Tua, right now as a man with a temperarily addled brain about to make a life altering decision of when or if he should play football again. It's like someone who is legally drunk at a bar deciding if they can drive home or not.

Of COURSE they are capable of making their way home, but their judgment is off, so it SEEMS completely reasonable to have another drink.

Right now, even if cleared to play, Tua should take 6 weeks off from football or any activity where he could easily damage his brain more than it is right now. For example; he shouldn't even go water skiing.

My thought and prayer is for Tua to take the over the next few weeks is to go spend time with former football players that sustained 5-7 significant concussion in their life. So that includes any concussions from anything INCLUDING the NFL. NOT just while in the NFL. He would discover many completely broken men that are complete forgotten who live in quiet desperation and spend a lot of time alone in darkened rooms in pain from migraines and have difficulty even remaining up right while navigating a set of stairs or a hallway.

Players and fans should be completely aware of the consequences concussion 10 to 30 years after they take of their cleats for the last time.

Parents of middle school and high school players should be aware of the consequences of 6 or 7 concussions.

Metaphorically, take a look at a large sprig of broccoli and approximate that's a human brain. Then remove one square centimeter of the surface of the broccoli sprig or even half a square centimeter. The green little capsules and the support structure are metaphorically like the human brain. The removed part is a concussion. It will never heal. Ever.

The human brain stores information as well runs the system that IS our bodies. Our hormones, thoughts, dreams etc etc and it's very good at reorganizing itself with redundancy and maintenance of neurologic pathways and THAT's why people seem ok after several weeks. The problem is, those dead spots are never coming back, ever. So as we age, eventually the last redundancy goes away and that's why very old people seem fine until a day comes when they can't find their way home from an errand or complete lose their appetite or some other interfunction suddenly fails and they died of "natural causes", which they did, but their capacity to maintain ran out early because of concussions.

That's my thought and pray people, not just Tua, choose to actively learn about the long term consequences of concussion.

Seriously, Tua was on the ground in the fencing position. It couldn't be more obvious how damaged he already is, yet, somehow it's a question of IF and when he should walk away from football. That should no longer be the case in 2024.

The players association should contemplate if the above has any merit in how they collectively deal with future concussions of all players.
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Individuals can explain every circumstance to Tua til they're blue in the face but in the end it's Tua's decision on what he wants to do. Saying this I bet he comes back to play in a few weeks, football players are just built differently.
 
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Drewbydoo said:
The players association should contemplate if the above has any merit in how they collectively deal with future concussions of all players.
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Rest assured the NFLPA is all over the CTE issue. I really like the idea of spending time with former players who were severely disabled by concussions. 🤕
 
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Drewbydoo said:
People reflexively throw around "thoughts and prayers". I choose not to.

My specific thoughts and prayers are that the players association steps in and saves Tua from himself. I view Tua, right now as a man with a temperarily addled brain about to make a life altering decision of when or if he should play football again. It's like someone who is legally drunk at a bar deciding if they can drive home or not.

Of COURSE they are capable of making their way home, but their judgment is off, so it SEEMS completely reasonable to have another drink.

Right now, even if cleared to play, Tua should take 6 weeks off from football or any activity where he could easily damage his brain more than it is right now. For example; he shouldn't even go water skiing.

My thought and prayer is for Tua to take the over the next few weeks is to go spend time with former football players that sustained 5-7 significant concussion in their life. So that includes any concussions from anything INCLUDING the NFL. NOT just while in the NFL. He would discover many completely broken men that are complete forgotten who live in quiet desperation and spend a lot of time alone in darkened rooms in pain from migraines and have difficulty even remaining up right while navigating a set of stairs or a hallway.

Players and fans should be completely aware of the consequences concussion 10 to 30 years after they take of their cleats for the last time.

Parents of middle school and high school players should be aware of the consequences of 6 or 7 concussions.

Metaphorically, take a look at a large sprig of broccoli and approximate that's a human brain. Then remove one square centimeter of the surface of the broccoli sprig or even half a square centimeter. The green little capsules and the support structure are metaphorically like the human brain. The removed part is a concussion. It will never heal. Ever.

The human brain stores information as well runs the system that IS our bodies. Our hormones, thoughts, dreams etc etc and it's very good at reorganizing itself with redundancy and maintenance of neurologic pathways and THAT's why people seem ok after several weeks. The problem is, those dead spots are never coming back, ever. So as we age, eventually the last redundancy goes away and that's why very old people seem fine until a day comes when they can't find their way home from an errand or complete lose their appetite or some other interfunction suddenly fails and they died of "natural causes", which they did, but their capacity to maintain ran out early because of concussions.

That's my thought and pray people, not just Tua, choose to actively learn about the long term consequences of concussion.

Seriously, Tua was on the ground in the fencing position. It couldn't be more obvious how damaged he already is, yet, somehow it's a question of IF and when he should walk away from football. That should no longer be the case in 2024.

The players association should contemplate if the above has any merit in how they collectively deal with future concussions of all players.
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That's a nice book you wrote today. :)
 
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