Tua Tagovailoa concussion discussion (update: Tua to IR 9/17/2024)(Merged)

as a guy who dabbles in sports Med…this one isn’t easy. I don’t fault the Dolphins on the most recent occurrence. The thuth is that you see a lot of hits like that every game that aren’t concussions. You are highly reliant on the player endorsing symptoms…which Tua didn’t do until well after the fact. There can be delayed symptoms with concussion but it makes me wonder if it wasn’t until the third INT that Tua thought, “wow 3 INTS, one half…something’s not right.” But the problem that i have is with the first concussion that the Dolphins continue to insist was a back injury. That’s a joke. And the reason it’s so important is that most sports docs say no more after a 3rd concussion…a 2nd, not so much. It’s completely screwing the return to play protocol.