Saints' WR Chris Olave Faces Critical Concussion Concerns

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00:00I gotta tell you, when I saw this story about Olave, I thought to myself, you know, speaking

00:09of guys that are finished, this guy, I mean, my God, how many concussions has he had?

00:18He's got to stop playing pro football.

00:19I mean, I don't, you know, I'm not, I am not one of these clowns that sits around listening

00:25to guys tell me how they're going to keep playing until they're dead when they have

00:30brain injuries.

00:32I just, you know, I don't understand it.

00:34I cannot believe that the league allows it.

00:37I think there should be a limit to how many you can have before you're, you can't play

00:42anymore.

00:43I just, this guy, you're telling me that he's had his fifth concussion.

00:48Every single time the guy gets hit now, he has a concussion and leaves the game.

00:53He needs to take a look at his life because it's, you know, ending before his very eyes.

00:59Yeah.

01:00He has had in his career now, he had one in 2020 when he was at Ohio state, he had 2022-2023

01:07with the Saints.

01:08And then this year alone, he was diagnosed with one October the 13th against the Bucks.

01:13He was evaluated for one on October the 27th against the Chargers.

01:17And then he left with that concussion this past Sunday, November the 3rd.

01:21So five and then two this year with one that they thought might've been one just this season

01:27in the past couple of months.

01:28Now the two of stuff I think gets more gas because he's a quarterback and of that scene

01:35with him on the ground a few years ago on the night game where, where this all, I think

01:40that was maybe his first or second one that he got.

01:43But you're right.

01:44Isn't there as much attention, let's just say, for Olave, who also now is on his fifth concussion.

01:52And it's a danger, you know, there should be as much, it should be everyone who gets

01:56five concussions.

01:57I get it.

01:58Maybe, you know, the quarterbacks get more gas, but that's serious stuff.

02:02And this was also brought on because of Michael Thomas saying that Derek Carr threw the ball

02:07in places that get them concussed.

02:09Only a couple of those concussions happened.

02:11Oh, wait a minute.

02:12All right.

02:13Now that changes everything.

02:15So you're telling me that his own teammate, is he not on that team anymore?

02:20Thomas isn't on the Saints anymore.

02:21That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, that the quarterback throws it to where he

02:25gets concussed.

02:26That makes no sense to me.

02:28Here's the reality of it.

02:29You cannot tell me that the NFL isn't talking about, and owners, and, and really, I think

02:37Roger Goodell, at some level, and their lawyers have to be looking at these brain injuries

02:43as a possible law in the league.

02:47They have to put a number on it.

02:49You know, bottom line, you have six of them, you're done.

02:52You're done.

02:53You can't play in the NFL because the NFL is a, you know, 30 mile an hour car crash

02:58league.

02:59It is the most violent league in this country, by far.

03:04It really is.

03:07Would you agree that it's the most violent?

03:08It's more violent than the NHL.

03:10I really think it is.

03:11I think the NHL has its fair share of brain injuries that they won't admit, but, you know,

03:17they are fighting still at some level.

03:20It's decreased dramatically, but the hitting is absurd.

03:24But really, it's not hitting like NFL hitting.

03:28And I'm telling you, the NFL at some point, because they've already lost one lawsuit with

03:33CTE, they're not going to be immune to more of them.

03:38I think that people that are getting brain injuries are going to start suing them, whether

03:42it's a civil suit or individually, and they're going to blame the NFL for not doing anything

03:49about it.

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