The unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant who cleared MiamiDolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa to return to play during Sunday’s game against the BuffaloBills has been fired.
The position is funded jointly by the NFL and the NFL Players Association. The neurotrauma consultants are present at each NFL game, and a player suspected of having sustained a concussion cannot return to the field until being cleared by his team physician and the unaffiliated specialist., the back of Tagovailoa’s helmet hit the turf when he took a roughing-the-passer hit with two minutes left in the first half against the Bills.
Tagovailoa’s return for the second half after his manner of exit in the first half against Buffalo drewthat only intensified after Tagovailoa got hurt again when the back of his helmet hit the ground in the NFL’s Thursday night game. “I just, like probably most people, I couldn’t believe what I saw last night,” Baltimore Ravens coachduring his Friday press conference. “I couldn’t believe what I saw last Sunday. It was just something that was astonishing to see. I’ve been coaching for 40 years now in college and the NFL – almost 40, not quite – and I’ve never seen anything like it before.
“A lot of times, players want to play. They want to go out there, and they want to play, and sometimes you just have to tell them, ‘No.’ You have to say, ‘No.’ No has to be the answer, and I appreciate that. We had Devin Duvernay a couple weeks ago with his situation, and he didn’t really have much in terms of symptoms and stuff like that, but he was out. He was out for the game, and he was out for most of the week.
“You don’t put them out there until they’re ready, until they’re ready in their minds. The game is too hard, the game is too tough for a player not to go out there who’s confident in his own ability to protect himself and play well.”
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