Will Tua retire?

CarsonChris wrote:Famous neurologist Bennet Omalu suggest Tua retire after that severe concussion he sustained vs Cincinnati.

Dr. Chris Nowinski, a neuroscientist who specializes in concussions and CTE, fumed last week that the Dolphins’ medical staff and coaches should be fired and thrown in jail after Tagovailoa suffered two possible concussions in five days.

The second head knock caused the star quarterback’s hands and arms to seize up immediately and landed him in the hospital. The first hit five days earlier was listed by the team as a back injury despite being “an obvious concussion,” according to Nowinski.

“Two concussions in 5 days can kill someone. This can end careers. How are we so stupid in 2022,” Nowinski wrote. “You guys should go to jail for letting him play 5 days after an obvious concussion you covered up. If he dies from second-impact syndrome, I’m pushing form [sic] murder charges.”

"It's hard to say," Burrow said when asked what it felt like. "You start to ring a little bit. I've never had any lasting effects from a concussion. I've been hit and forgot the rest of the game before. That has happened a couple of times. But I've never had one where I have headaches for a week or where I have symptoms where I have headaches for like a week.

"I've had some (hits) where I don't remember the second half or I don't remember the entire game or I know I got a little dizzy at one point. But nothing long-lasting."

Burrow said he suspects "everybody has (had a concussion) that plays this game."

"You can make all the rules you want to make the game as safe as you possibly can but there's an inherent risk and danger with the game of football," Burrow said. "You have 300-pound men running 20 miles an hour trying to take your head off while you're standing still, trying to ignore it and find receivers that are open and then sometimes you have to go run to try and get a first down. ... It's part of the game, I think. Part of what we signed up for.

"You're going to have head injuries. You're going to tear your ACL. You're going to break your arm. That's the game that we play. That's the life that we live. And we get paid handsomely for it. I think going into every game, we know what we're getting ourselves into."

During an Oct. 30 game against the Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium, Smith twice hit his head on the turf. Twice he left the game and was evaluated for a concussion. And once he was allowed to return to the game.

The Chiefs later said Smith wasn’t ruled to have had a concussion. But on the podcast, Smith said he lost consciousness at one point and definitely had a concussion.

Smith first left that game against the Colts after being hit while sliding. Smith tried to jump up, but was wobbly, much like Tagovailoa last week, he said.

After being removed from the game, Smith was asked basic questions on the sideline.

But in that 2016 game, Smith passed the test and was taken to the locker room for round two of testing with a trainer and neurologist.

The doctor determined Smith had passed that test and he returned to the Chiefs sideline. Smith pressed coach Andy Reid to allow him to return to the game.

“Here’s a coach I have a ton of respect for. Has coached football as long as anybody, right? He was there but ... the experts cleared me. I passed,” Smith said. “I passed their metric of a concussion that I got through and similarly that Tua shouldn’t have (go through). And I went back in the game.”

Smith returned in the second quarter of that game against the Colts. But shortly after halftime, Smith again was hit while sliding and his head slammed into the turf.