The Miami Dolphins and the NFL on Friday defended the process by which quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was cleared to return to a game Sunday after being evaluated for a possible head injury and then permitted to play Thursday night in Cincinnati.
“We want to get better at these things,” Sills said. “We have gotten better. We’ve seen our care improve drastically. But that doesn’t mean that we’re done. … And whatever our review leads us toward, that’s the direction we’ll move in. If we feel we need to make adjustments collectively with the players union, we’re absolutely committed to that.”
Christopher Nowinski, the founding CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, said Friday he was “horrified and disgusted” by the handling of Tagovailoa’s health. “I was one of the people saying the NFL is not as bad as it used to be,” Nowinski said. “And I was starting to focus on other sports and other leagues around the world to try to get them to a better place. And now I realize I’ve got to laser back on the NFL.”
The “hole in the protocol here,” Nowinski said, is the provision that allows a player to return to a game if he demonstrates “gross motor instability” but that condition is determined by the doctors not to be neurologically caused.“The idea that they tried to claim it was something else and that lets him go back in shows you can cheat what is obvious signs,” Nowinski said. “There were no signs of a back injury. There were five signs of concussion.
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