![]() Medical personnel and the UNC promptly examined Bridgewater and determined that he, in fact, was not found to be concussed by virtue of the locker-room assessment tests, which take about 10-15 minutes to conduct. Dolphins medical staff walked him to their locker room, to be checked for a concussion, and a slightly injured elbow. Fate did not wait to make amends.īridgewater dropped back from his eight-yard line and, an instant before getting hit hard, threw the ball away to no one, from in the end zone - an infraction for intentionally grounding that gave New York a quick 2-0 lead. And not just any player, but their quarterback - the very quarterback starting on Sunday in place of the concussed Tagovailoa: Teddy Bridgewater.Īnd, incredibly, it happened on Miami’s first snap of the game. So which team was first to lose a player under the new protocol? Why the Dolphins of course. Or, in medical terminology, “ataxia” or “gross motor instability,” as a result of a brain injury. The NFL and the players union, meantime, scrambled to investigate the Tua/Buffalo incident and, just on Saturday afternoon, announced an expansion of “no-go” signals in their jointly decided, in-game concussion-diagnosis criteria - which automatically render a player as concussed and out for the remainder of a game. He’s still not cleared to return to play. 1 quarterback Tua Tagovailoa to return to the game against Buffalo, on a controversial medical decision made jointly by a Miami team physician and an unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant (UNC), who determined that Tagovailoa’s wobbliness and head-shaking were due solely to an injured back, not a concussion.įour days later Tagovailoa most definitely was concussed in a game at Cincinnati. The Dolphins, two Sundays earlier, had outraged a continent by allowing No. Such as shortly after kickoff of Sunday’s NFL game in East Rutherford, N.J., between the Miami Dolphins and host New York Jets. Sometimes, it really does seem that sporting-gods providence must be at work to produce - and explain - the unlikely events we occasionally see on playing fields. ![]()
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