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Tua emphatically announces his return to Football
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10/22/2024
Tua Tagovailoa says he doesn't want to be the face of concussions, he will resume practice tomorrow. Tua continues on to feel like he's treated
differently than other athletes like boxers and hockey players.
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00:00
Also weird, the Tua press conference yesterday.
00:04
Tua, why do you call that weird, huh?
00:07
Cuz he was very aggressive, very confrontational or defiant, I would say.
00:13
I would say this.
00:14
Talk about.
00:17
Tua spoke as if though he's sick and
00:21
tired of people telling him how he should go about living his life.
00:27
That's right.
00:28
And he has every right to do that.
00:31
You're like, he should shut the hell up, is basically what he was saying.
00:38
Like, none of you are doctors, I'm working with doctors, right?
00:46
They have cleared me.
00:48
Yep. I know I have to be a little safer in how I go about things.
00:54
But from that standpoint, it's none of your damn business.
00:57
That's right.
00:58
Basically, the way he went at it, and he has every right to.
01:01
He has every right to.
01:02
He has every right to.
01:03
I think it's also a snowball of the team sucking.
01:09
He's felt symptom free for five weeks and the team isn't good and
01:13
he hasn't really been able to do anything about it.
01:15
Though he's- He may have been annoyed that he was put on injury reserve.
01:19
Like, you understand, if you have a concussion,
01:23
even if you get a concussion during a game on a way trip,
01:26
they will keep you overnight, but not things based on how they were.
01:33
You see what I mean?
01:34
That can be annoying from a player's perspective.
01:38
Here's a little bit of two.
01:40
You got this, Marcos?
01:41
Is this all set to go?
01:42
He was asked about the message he has for those concerned about him,
01:46
and he says he loves this game to the death of him.
01:51
There are a lot of people out there legitimately worried about your health and
01:54
making sure that you're okay.
01:55
What would you say to those that are worried that you might get hurt again and
01:59
this is something that's gonna continue?
02:01
I appreciate your concern.
02:02
I really do.
02:04
I love this game and I love it to the death of me.
02:07
That's it.
02:09
There you go.
02:10
To a- Can I just say this?
02:18
Who sees?
02:20
Do you see how guys play out there?
02:23
Do you see how guys hit each other?
02:25
Do you see what guys go through?
02:27
Look what Nick Chubb's just gone through.
02:29
Right?
02:30
Granted, it's a different injury, but there's a lot of that.
02:34
Well, at one hand, yes, he has for sure been treated differently and
02:37
covered differently than everybody else, but on the other side of it,
02:41
his have definitely been very visually upsetting to people.
02:45
Yeah, I think the bigger thing is that you have to understand that
02:56
it's not necessarily the hit that is getting him in trouble.
03:02
See, quarterbacks, unlike other people, I would say unlike me,
03:10
I got so used to getting hit, I learned how to put my body in a better position
03:15
to get hit.
03:17
Remember before the season, I was talking to you about this.
03:19
Yes.
03:20
You got to get hit a couple of times so you know how to protect yourself.
03:23
When is it time to be an aggressor or when is it time to protect yourself?
03:27
You got to go through it a little bit to get back into that flow.
03:30
Quarterbacks don't necessarily know how to do that because they may get hit
03:36
three or four times a game the same way I did.
03:39
Most of their hits are sacks, right?
03:43
And so if you're getting sacked, a lot of times, you don't have time to protect
03:47
yourself because it's a weird thing.
03:50
But I think that's what is such a throw off about what happened with this one
03:54
in particular, because it didn't look like that violent of a hit and it wasn't
03:58
this, ooh, he was trying to make something happen and it didn't work out.
04:05
And something that looked pretty innocuous ended up looking very scary.
04:09
Sudden jarring or anything like that.
04:12
It was more of a, like a, he kind of, you know, got his neck jammed and like
04:18
to sit here and watch on TV and try to identify what's happening or what's
04:27
going on when we're not medical professionals is not only wrong and we
04:36
shouldn't be, but it's also unfair to the player because now everybody gets
04:41
in a tizzy over what's going on with tour.
04:45
And now we, we get into the mode of making it look good instead of
04:52
identifying what's actually going on.
04:55
Well, yeah, that's going to be something he has to talk about the organization
04:57
with, because that, you know, they got so much heat the last time, because
05:02
they felt like they put them in a vulnerable spot and there's no way that
05:05
the next time this happens, he's not going to be maybe even shelved longer
05:09
change, no matter how pissed he is.
05:10
But they were feeling the heat from people who really shouldn't
05:14
have a say-so in what's going on.
05:16
Yeah.
05:17
But they had the doctors, you know?
05:19
Right.
05:19
But, but no, you had this conversation from the beginning, regardless of how
05:24
healthy or hurt tour was, they going to make it look good.
05:28
The coach seems to disagree though.
05:29
The coach is out there saying the doctors told him time was needed.
05:32
Okay.
05:33
You know?
05:34
And like that could all, you know, like, I just, I just think that we, again,
05:43
you put it in the hands of the medical staff and everybody shut up and hope for
05:47
the best, and we don't do that.
05:49
Here is the try to tell people what, what, you know, Oh, he should do this or that
05:54
or that, and then the next thing, you know, it's a national story.
05:57
Next thing, you know, and like, yeah, man, like it's hard enough.
06:01
Here's a, to a Sandy feels like he is treated different than other athletes.
06:05
I just think it's based off of whatever that individual feels that if you feel
06:12
like you can go, you can go, this is only, I just think this is only becoming a
06:17
thing just because of what, what ended up happening two years ago for, for
06:22
myself within a sport.
06:24
I hate that it's happened, but we don't look at boxers the same way.
06:27
We don't look at hockey players the same way, but I just think because of what
06:31
happened and the magnitude that, that had, um, that it's becoming more of
06:35
an issue, uh, here in the league.
06:38
Uh, I don't necessarily agree with that, that boxers aren't and fighters
06:43
aren't put under the 45, a 38 year old fighter or a 40 year old fighter.
06:48
He's a 26 year old quarterback in the prime of his career.
06:51
He feels great.
06:53
Um, but he also has a lot more security than a lot of fighters do.
06:56
A lot of fighters fight because they got to fight.
07:01
You don't know.
07:02
You don't know that he, see the crazy thing about this is, is here we go again.
07:07
You don't know that he doesn't feel that way that I don't feel like
07:11
you're looking at his situation.
07:13
No, but he just said it.
07:16
No, but I'm saying like, he may feel that the same way they feel when they
07:22
go, it's not about the money for him, but the need to kind of a lot of
07:27
fighters, it is for the money though.
07:29
Right, right.
07:29
But, but the reasons that you pick and choose, like, just because the reasons
07:33
are, we choose money for the, for the fighters doesn't mean that the reason
07:38
why Tua feels he has to come back and play isn't just as important.
07:42
And for us to just say, you got the money, don't worry about it.
07:45
He may not be thinking like that.
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