Hours after Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa exited Thursday night’s game due to a concussion, a chorus of voices — medical experts, NFL greats and even close friends of the 26-year-old signal-caller — began calling for Tagovailoa to consider retirement. Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, however, refuses to entertain such a possibility, arguing it’d be hurtful “to even sniff that subject.”
“All the science behinds concussions tells you how delicate the time is right after an injury,” McDaniel told reporters Friday, “and how important it is that you don’t institute extra sources of anxiety. So, from my vantage point, I feel it’s supremely important that … I’m not giving off any sort of vibes. I’m not trying to even look at, well, how serious is this relative to his past ones?
“I know the facts are it’s important he gets healthy day by day,” McDaniel continued, “and in that, the actual best thing I can do is not try to assess what this even means from a football standpoint. … It’s not in my DNA to think, like, hey, what does this mean? I have to put his health as the primary. I absolutely, positively will not do anything to make anything worse or hurt any one of our players, specifically guys that are in concussion protocol. Ironically, I think there’s a lot of people that have a vested interest in the Miami Dolphins, people that want to support, but quite literally, questioning timelines, that gives forth anxiety … trying to assess what this means for playing. This is heavy stuff.”
McDaniel added that he understands why reporters would be curious about the short- and long-term health of his quarterback, but reiterated his belief it’s counterproductive to raise such questions.
“I think it would be so, so wrong of me to even sniff that subject,” McDanel said of a potential retirement. “And it’s more in line of actually caring about the human being. … [You’re] talking…
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Author : Cody Benjamin
Publish date : 2024-09-13 17:01:19
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