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You are probably right, but I base that upon the accuracy and touch he demonstrates in short to medium passes in the NFL. If you do that well, you can soften up a defense for deep shots. It's what Brady has done for decades. That said, I don't care what he did in college. Devonta Smith made Mac Jones look like he has elite arm talent. Alabama's receivers are so much faster than college DBs that all the QBs have to do is get it there.

In all seriousness, they will probably wait until the bye week so that it gets full attention.

And on a probably loud team plane.

They're still not treating this seriously. Here is a quote from a concussion information sheet: "Limit activities that require a lot of thinking or concentration (including social activities, homework, video games, texting, computer, driving, job-related activities, movies, parties). These activities can slow the brain's recovery."

Everything that comes out of this man's mouth on this is the wrong thing. When my daughter got a concussion, she was told to not look at screens. The doctor said that "the brain needs to rest to heal."

Careful with all that roughhousing with QB1 boys.

Yes, The Bills are cautious with injuries. It's one of the reasons that guys want to play in Buffalo.

Normal jerseys is a huge deal.

McD said it.

He'll also die on the "Tim Tebow would have been a HoF QB if not for reasons" hill.

My final thoughts on this are that in the end I don't really care. That Rinaldi piece from 3+ years ago has stuck with me. If Tua wants to put his future at risk so as not to appear weak in front of his father, that's his decision. The Dolphins and the NFL should have intervened, but they didn't. I'm just happy that the Bills coaches, front office, and medical staff wouldn't do this. They treat injuries seriously. From all available evidence, if the Bills behaved like the Dolphins, Dane Jackson would have played in Miami on Sunday as would Ed Oliver and Mitch Morse.

I think another factor is that in hockey, you don't see the hit coming a lot of the times. Also, a lot of the hits are a head bouncing off the glass. You'd like to think so.

That's because Tua said it was his back. By the time he got to the locker room, he had knocked the cobwebs out and could pass the baseline testing. No doctor can look inside a patient's head on the spot and see a concussion. They have to have the cooperation of the patient. McDaniel is really awkward and tone deaf, but we all know what he meant.

I don't know that you can stop QBs from getting hit in the pocket. They get hit after they throw all the time.

If it is anything like OHSAA concussion protocol, return to play can be as soon at 5 days after symptoms completely disappear. In the beginnign of the process, they pull them out of school to let their brain's rest. After symptoms, there are 5 steps (i'm summarizing this from the paper I got 3 weeks ago): Light physical activity (light jogging, lightly riding an exercise bike, etc...) Moderate activity (Sprinting, riding faster, etc...) Heavy, non-contact activity (like practicing in a red jersey) Full-contact practice Return to game play. Again, athletes can lie about mild symptoms because you can't see a headache so they mostly return before they should. Here is a link to that sheet: https://odh.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/8d4a8d94-eaf0-4359-81d2-4fdd49e83b9c/ODH+Concussion+Information+Sheet+for+Youth+Sports+Organizations.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CONVERT_TO=url&CACHEID=ROOTWORKSPACE.Z18_M1HGGIK0N0JO00QO9DDDDM3000-8d4a8d94-eaf0-4359-81d2-4fdd49e83b9c-mXrHfJA

Two guys go up for a header, one gets the ball and the other gets the other guys head.

As soon as I heard that he still lives with his parents, I knew that he would play next week. The Tom Rinaldi piece on Tua that aired before the Alabama-LSU NCG has stuck with me for years and it is the reason that I would have never drafted him. Drafting Mahomes meant getting a idiot brother. Drafting Tua meant bringing the worst sports dad that I have ever heard of this side of professional tennis into your organization.

There has to be something involving his father and leaving AMA.

I actually know high school athletes that have faked (or tried to fake) their way through concussion protocol. The key was faking the initial assessment with the trainer so that a doctor never got called in. I think that's what happened here with the team doctor. In a high school soccer playoff game, my son's team's leading scorer got knocked in the head. They pulled him, he faked his way through the examination by the athletic trainer (who's a professional employed by the State of Ohio), and went back into the game and scored the winning goal. On the bus ride home, he had to ask him teammates if they'd won the game. He didn't remember anything after that initial hit. My daughter is the GK for her HS team. This season she got kicked in the head trying to defend a corner. She kept playing but a while later in the game she grabbed her face and the ref stopped the game. She tried to game that exam and they would have put her back in the game if I hadn't stopped it. Later that night she got a splitting headache and didn't remember the second half of the game. She said she tried to get back in the game because they had no backup and she felt a responsibility to her teammates. I pulled her out of the game.

I would put big money on that.

Players learn in high school how to game that system. All they have to do lie a bit and learn to mask the response to a bright light in their eyes. Players in the past have talked about purposefully doing poorly on the baseline testing so that they can fake their way through that initial assessment.

I would bet big money that he will play on Sunday. He's probably having a conversation with his father on how to game the concussion protocol again as I type this.

As soon as Al MIchaels mentioned that Tua's parents live with him in Miami and that his father is at every game, I knew was going on.

Here's a quote from Jungle Noise on Mixon

Just reading their game day thread. Just go to show you that partizan fans are not always able to see what it right in front of them.