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Former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers star quarterback Tom Brady cosplaying as current Dolphins Head Coach Mike McDaniels 🤭🤪🥴🏴‍☠️🦜🐬

from Instagram // Monday, March 4th, 2024

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Tua Tagovailoa Injury Is An Indictement Of League Safety Protocols

The fallout from the Tua Tagovailoa situation is real and is being met with intense scrutiny as to how or why Tua was allowed to play on Thursday Night Football?

In the video above, is Dr Ben Omalu, also known as the “Concussion Doctor”, most famously depicted in film “Concussion” starring Will Smith. Long story short, Dr. Ben Omalu has been a thorn in the NFL’s side for the better part of the last 20 years. 

Basically, he’s the reason a lot of the physicality has been officiated out of the NFL.

What I believe Omalu represents more than anything else, is the justifiable scrutiny on the health of players within the NFL and players who are retired.

This is a worker-employee issue at it’s core and it’s stories like this are the reason sports cannot be separated from politics.

The NFL up to this point has gotten away with something very few employers in America or the world, have gotten away with, because they do not pay for the health needs of their workers. There is no kind of health-based safety net for players, who essentially ruin their bodies playing this sport.

In last night’s game between the Colts and the Broncos, there was an added bit of scrutiny on every bit of physical play.

The NFL will be on red alert towards anything that is a player health issue or a violation of it’s League Safety Protocols, but that in itself is still an indictement, because if the protocols are effective then how’d they miss on Tua?

Here’s the problem, after the 1st hit which Tua took. Whixh was a late hit which was ruled as roughing the passer by Bills linebacker Matt Milano,Tua was visibly wobbled.

You can tell tell he tries to tough it out and walk it off but he falls to the ground again. Tua would still complete the game, but should he have been allowed to even do that based on Omalu’s findings regarding concussions?

No. Tua should not have even had the option to play through any kind of head injury. Furthermore, it’s been proven that the culture within the sport of football ecourages players to play through injuries, so players should not be entrusted to make this decision on their own at all, and shouldn’t be able to override health and safety protocols in any way or form.

What I have truly been unimpressed by, is Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel’s response to  Tua’s injury and the kind of lack of concern he showed, which in many ways mirrors Kyle Shanahan’s distant and unconcerned response to Trey Lance’s injury in week 2.

When even the mainstream media can’t find a way to defend a coach or an organization, you know there’s a problem.

The idea that McDaniel sees this as just “part of the game”, and worse yet, for him to say that all of the safety protocols were followed, acutally raises an issue for the NFL, becuase now people will want to know what those protocols are, and how strictly were they followed if this situation was allowed to occurr?

And right on cue, the NFL and the Player’s Association have issued a joint statement regarding the safety protocols.

They are claiming to not have come to any conclusions,  but have already pre-emptively vowed to improve the protocols. That is damning.

I have a lot of respect for Dr Omalu.

The guts that this man has to face down a corporation like the NFL with all it’s resources legal, financial and political, was the kind of stand you can only wish more people bothered to take towards injustices perpetrated by people in positions of power.

He also defended Gisele Bundchen when she revealed to the world that Tom Brady had sustained concussions while playing the most protected position on the field.

The NFL not having any kind of health insurance/ coverage for former players, along with any workplace that employs people full time, should be far more accountable, responsible and far more forthcoming regarding player health and the health of employees.

The league has not learned their lesson.

No one wants to ban the sport of football, but if young men are going to put thier bodies on the line like that, then there should be some kind of built in health insurance to help them once they are retired and unable to work. 

Before the Doplhins took the field against the Cincinatti Bengals on Monday Night Football, Ben Omalu had already been on TMZ and publicly stated that there is no doubt that Tua was concussed in the Bills game, and as a neurologist he would have never allowed Tua to play last Thursday.

Omalu explains that, a concussion is like a fracture to the brain, and if you were to fracture your leg, there is no way you would dar to get up and play, so why would players be ecnouraged to play through head injuries?

Trust the doctors people, this sport doesn’t have to be worse just because it took a more serious approach to helping players protect their health.

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[the-football-chick]

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Beastie Boys, Run DMC and Davy D on the roof of B Smith's restaurant in NYC, May 11th, 1987, © Marty Lederhandler x

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[the-football-chick]

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[soupy-sez]

Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, 1987 [X]

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