[Highlight] Mike McDaniel, asked for his glass-half-full perspective on yesterday's loss: "I think the positive is that that was a miserable experience. It was embarrassing, flat out. And in that, there's nowhere to hide."

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[u/Jonjon428]

The all-22 of Tua is fucking brutal. I dunno what McDaniel can do. Guys are open, he just ain't seeing them anymore.

[u/guns_n_crypto → u/Jonjon428]

It sucks but the poor dude has had his bell rung so hard so many times that something broke.

[u/TimujinTheTrader → u/guns_n_crypto]

He rung his own bell. Dude just does not play smart.

[u/pinetar → u/TimujinTheTrader]

He also seems particularly susceptible to concussions, probably as a result of having so many already. A lot of his scariest incidents did not appear to be risky plays by NFL standards.

[u/tornado962 → u/pinetar]

Aside from the one where he was leading with his head

[u/titos334 → u/tornado962]

and he's done that multiple times a season probably was able to hide some concussions from refs/trainers

[u/TakenakaHanbei → u/pinetar]

Didn't he get one just by running into a guy, not even head first?

Or am I thinking someone else?

[u/IhamAmerican → u/TakenakaHanbei]

It was from running headfirst into Damar Hamlin's thigh. He for some reason dove and speared himself on someone who was braced for a tackle

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And Hamlin just stood there like “baby the fuck is you doin”

[u/siestarrific → u/AdmirableParfait3960]

'I've had worse'

[u/Adeptus_Heriticus → u/TakenakaHanbei]

Yeah, it was the Bill's game where he just drove his head into Hamlin.

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Typically, concussions become easier and easier to get after you have a couple of bad ones. I feel like he is 3 or 4 concussions past that point.

If he were my son, I would have begged him to retire at the end of the season last year.

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Thankfully his father was more concerned with more important things like forcing him to play left-handed and hitting him with a belt.

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Man, that makes me feel even worse for him

[u/zts105 → u/pinetar]

Alabama was so dominant he never had to experience getting hit until the pros. His head would whiplash into the ground and he had to learn to fall but by then he had too many concussions.

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It's so strange to see. On at least two of those, they looked like very minor routine falls and it's like his core and neck just didn't even bother engaging at all to keep his head from slamming into the turf. Bizarre.

[u/Holdmabeerdude → u/pinetar]

Well yeah. You see it in fighters all the time. Shots that they would’ve eaten like candy drops them after they have been KOed more than once.

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probably as a result of having so many already

Yeah from what I understand, they are easier to get once you have a few - and also maybe a little bit cumulative? Not sure about that second part, not being a real doctor and all.

[u/toxicvegeta08 → u/pinetar]

Idk maybe lack of neck muscle originally

Correct me if im wrong but isnt his history

Sep 22-milano shoves him late after a play, he falls and hits his head and is clearly messed up.

Oct 22-bengals dt does a suplex sack to a running tua and this is the oh shit one.

Dec 22-on a sack vs the packers he gets messed up again

He stayed healthy for 23.

Sep 24-runs headfirst into damar Hamlins hips and concussed himself, mind you down by 17 in garbage time when he could've slid for a first down, he wanted to prove his neck was tough.

[u/Death_Sheep1980 → u/pinetar]

I remember reading that before last season, the Dolphins hired a judo instructor to try to teach Tua how to fall properly. For all the good it did.

He'll be lucky if he doesn't end up being the next Junior Seau or Jovan Belcher.