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Ian Rapaport on NFLN just alluded to Sunday saying Tua didn't go through concussion protocol because it was determined to be a neck injury and not a head injury. Now, that makes more sense than clearing it at halftime. As for the Bengal, what do you want him to do? Can't hit em high, can't hit em low, can't drive em down, can't land on em. That was basically a perfect rugby form tackle, hands around the waist and take to the ground. A severe injury on something like that means NFL QB might be beyond your physical capability.

By being a one-read rhythm passer. If that read isn't there, the play goes off-script, but he mainly stays locked in on where the ball was supposed to go, like what happened on the stretchering. Bills were coming off a short week and kicked the Dolphins up and down the field. Delusional fins fans applaud their team for not needing as many offensive plays to win. Yeah, that might work out once in a while, but it doesn't make you a juggernaut.

you stupid when you do dat, just some English pig with no brain.

One thing I'm not sure was picked up on: Miami activated their 3rd QB for this game owing to Tua's being less than hale and hearty after Sunday. Rare to have 3 QBs active on game day. Maybe nothing, maybe they knew more than they let on. Who can say?

Noodle arm means not attacking outside the numbers more than 10 yards downfield. It means safeties closing on deep shots and intercepting. it means what we saw tonight.

Flutie's arm, I realized in the season opener against the Colts, wasn't going to be good enough to win with. It was a harsh realization; I had so much hope. Tua is that but more pronounced. And without the scrambling. And made of tissue.

So in 10 days when Tua gets lightly tackled again and ends up like again, we can look forward to it being explained as actually being the result of head lice.

So... 60 minutes?

What is more unbelievable is the complete shock of the media about such an injury, as if we had no prior indication that Tua might have a susceptibility to having a (more intensive) head injury so soon after his (not really a) back injury four ***** days ago. This whole Twitterverse outpouring of "OH NOEZ how unprecedented and how unexpected we are praying for U nobody could have seen this coming how sad" makes me retch. Everybody with a willingness to accept the images being shuttled through their optic nerve since Sunday saw this coming.

Every offense that asked Tua to process at the NFL level failed. He's a one-read one-derboy even this year, and that's kind of what has led him to the stretcher, just waiting for that one read to free up.

Was that Alan Parsons guy? He was remarkably erudite. In retrospect, he always was, but then he was a trash talker too so I sort of never reconciled that.

I like that guy on Amazon with the Alan Parsons Eye In The Sky necklace. "What if the thought Sunday was, this is such a big game against the Buffalo Bills, that it overshadows the protocol"

Do you have trouble in doorways?

Until you kick a couple field goals. That play sheet was originally designed to be used in the 4th quarter only, wasn't it?

Both Lindros brothers. But that was an age without concussion protocols. Tua was asking what happened on the play that he ended up on a stretcher? Oh boy.

Don't chase the points till you absolutely need to.

I mean, his fingers were palsied. There's no explaining that away like, I dunno, grabbing his head and stumbling around like closing time.

They have to investigate this in the light of day now, after a pretty regular tackle causes a stretchering. There will be no sweeping this under the rug any longer.

Ironically, Rolling heads would sustain less trauma.

Sanders Tyler Bass'd the hell out of that kick. This game is shaping up like all the karma coming home to roost.

No not you personall Next, didn't mean to imply that. The "royal you"

He'll be back for the 3rd quarter.

Hate to say I told you so, but in the Sunday GDT I told you so. Oh who am I kidding. I LOVE to say I told you so. Edit: Not saying this to Nextmanup in particular, just in general to the whole situation. Just that Next was saying it here, as I assume we both were saying in the Sunday GDT.

if he's a Christmas tree ornament, yeah. I guess the first read wasn't open for the first 5 seconds of that snap! Oh looky. The non-concussion made him more susceptible to another non-concussion.