NFLPA Fires Doctor Who Cleared Tua Tagovailoa To Play After Injury

The independent doctor who cleared Tua Tagovailoa to keep playing after a scary head injury has been fired by the NFL Players’ Association.

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[flipsolo]

This is an example of using a scapegoat to do away NFL's responsibility in this whole mess

[greenthumbmary]

The Dolphins coach needs to be fired as well. He had the ability to ensure the safety of his players.

[a.benaway_racing]

I'm sure the team had nothing to do with it. Head injury guy is a scapegoat

[vgold]

It will come down to fan and media pressure as to whether anyone else beyond this gent will get fired. My assumption is know, he’s the sacrificial lamb. You shouldn’t need a doctor to tell you he was clearly affected by a head injury the devious week.

[bangbang]

The nfl needs to force Stephen Ross to sell the Dolphins, he has proven unfit to own the team over the last 4 years. From the allegations involving Brian Flores, to tampering with Brady, and now this, I know he had a say in it… McDaniels should be let go too.

[maggie]

So the doctor is the fall guy for the NFL. Nothing new. We all know the doctor’s actions were induced by the NFL’s pressuring him to get that QB on the field

[chrisb]

Dolphins doctor was rightfully fired. Staff need to be evaluated and we need to figure out how to keep this from happening to another player in the future

[bendutta]

How do we know Tua didn’t say F you doc I’m going back out there? We can’t even get Tom Brady to stop playing

[charleswoodhams]

NFL is responsible!! No test to see he had a head injury.

[taliguevara]

We love the game in great part because of the big hits, as a matter of fact the number one reason why football is a multibillion dollar industry and the most watched sport in the United States is because of the violent element in it. I for one am a huge football fan and have been since as far back as I have had the ability to reason but seeing Tua get injured the way he did i must admit was pretty disturbing, it gave me chills. The libertarian argument to the violent element within sports like football, boxing, mma, rugby etc is that human beings should be allowed to do whatever they want as long as they are not hurting others in the process unless those others are consenting adults. But if consenting adults want to participate in Gladiator games were they fight till death like in the days of Ancient Rome should they be allowed to do so? I personally would say “no” and I think most people would agree with me but when it comes to football or boxing which you can argue is a form of long term death those same people would tell you it’s okay. So I guess its a matter of degree. How much danger is too much danger? And who should decide how much danger is too much danger? Should it be the players, the coaches, the referees, the GMs, the fans, the owners, the politicians, the voters, the family members of the players ? Or a little bit of everyone? Well whatever the answer the truth of the matter is that this problem is not going anywhere. The only way you completely eradicate concussions and CTE from football is to completely prohibit any type of tackling and go with flag football or touch football or something along those lines and thats not going to happen, at least not in my lifetime. So we might as well get used to these type of injuries because the sad truth is that we’re going to be seeing them for the rest of our lives. GET WELL SOON TUA!

[spaceballone]

And that’s it, problem solved. Stop asking!

[pierrelouis]

They supposed to check his fake medecine l degree .