NFL and NFLPA release Tua findings

[trueblade]

Good thread from Kevin Siefert. He does a good job summarizing the key points.

 

 

 

 

[Bama Panther]

1 hour ago, Snake said:

The outcome was not intended??? This is what you get when a business police's itself. He was clearly injured, the tape shows that. He clearly also didn't need to be on the field. Hell guys leave for 4 weeks for a hamstring injury. Tua could barley walk and they rushed him out there. 

The NFL and the Dolphins did not police themselves here. The NFLPA (again, the players’ union, was involved in the investigation, and the findings that they signed off on include the fact that the protocol was actually followed.

The NFLPA would not let this be covered up if something were amiss. If they believed something were covered up, they’d exploit it as much as they could to get more for the players they represent. 

[Khyber53]

11 hours ago, Growl said:

get ready to have influential players senselessly removed from games to save billionaires liability dollars 

or to save the players' lives.

[ncstatekwi]

The more important question here......is GRASS better than TURF for HELMET to GROUND contact???

[PghPanther]

So the NFL goes and hires an "independent source" to determine concussion protocols..........

How would this sounded years ago.........

The tobacco industry hires an "independent source" to determine a link of smoking to lung cancer. 

The NFL knows the score.....

Look a concussion diagnosis is still not an exact science..............since it is trauma to the brain you must assume or error to the side of caution when it comes to such injuries............do you think the NFL's "independent source" is doing that?

Besides this "concussion" protocol is just window dressing they are only responding to from the pressures of those within the medical industry............

The real problem here is the repeated head trauma from almost every play some positions expose players to..............while the skill set positions are the most obvious hits where attention is drawn to the lineman are repeated exposed to sub concussion head trauma almost every play.

This is an area of grave concern in the medical studies that much like smoking, playing football in contact positions exposes the heads to 100s if not 1,000 of sub-concussion trauma over a season which has a cumulative effect over time equal multiple traumatic concessions. 

But the NFL is too busy trying to become a world sport like Nestles is trying to buy up all the water rights in the world. 

 

 

[Snake]

12 hours ago, Bama Panther said:

The NFL and the Dolphins did not police themselves here. The NFLPA (again, the players’ union, was involved in the investigation, and the findings that they signed off on include the fact that the protocol was actually followed.

The NFLPA would not let this be covered up if something were amiss. If they believed something were covered up, they’d exploit it as much as they could to get more for the players they represent. 

The NFL covered up concussions until they were sued and the Players union backed the NFL. Keep living in a fantasy land if you want but what happened to Tua didn't pass the eye test. The goal of the sport isn't to turn players into .