Should Tagovailoa Retire After Multiple Concussions?

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00:00But I want to ask you about Sed Tua Tagovailoa and his multiple concussions now and head

00:10injuries.

00:11Now, I have heard all day today, nonstop, I've been up since very early in the morning

00:16hearing how everyone and their brother thinks he should retire and that his career is over.

00:22And I said earlier on the show that he, you know, had a huge signing bonus, 30 some million,

00:27100 million guaranteed the first two years of the deal.

00:30He's set for life, no matter what.

00:31He's got all the money in the world for him, his family, his grandchildren, his neighbors,

00:35the whole neighborhood.

00:36Do you think that his career is over?

00:39Because I think, you know, 20 years down the road, this guy's going to have advanced dementia,

00:43CT, whatever you want to call it, Alzheimer's.

00:45He's going to have memory loss.

00:47He's going to have brain damage.

00:48I think he already has brain damage.

00:51Nobody likes to voluntarily walk away from pro sports.

00:55It's such a great life, but he's already gotten paid, as you said, listen, I don't

01:00think he's going to retire, Scott.

01:02I think he's going to be back again, but without being stated, I think he's one hit away from

01:09retirement now.

01:10And the problem with two is he doesn't get hit that hard, Scott, and it's a member against

01:16the Buffalo Bills.

01:17Milano pushed them over just routine, pushed the quarterback.

01:21He did like the cartwheel backflip hits his head.

01:25He doesn't know why to get hit.

01:26I'm not blaming the victim here, but you know what, whosoever fault it is, it doesn't matter.

01:33And I don't want to be cold, but from a football standpoint, can he stay on the field?

01:37No.

01:38Right.

01:39So at some point you're going to have to ask yourself, are quarterbacks one hit away from

01:42like potentially dying on the field and you know, all right, you got Skyler Thompson.

01:48He's okay.

01:49But the future of the Miami Dolphins in the future or two, you have to seriously consider.

01:53Listen, Scott, you're there right now for the fight game and boxing.

01:58You can get knocked out once.

02:00You can get knocked out twice.

02:01All right.

02:02You got knocked out a couple of times in your career, Scott, if you get knocked out like

02:06four or five times in a two year span, you're going to have brain damage.

02:10Like at some point your brain just could not absorb like a sponge, like growing back up.

02:16It won't, it'll shrivel.

02:18It won't grow back up.

02:19It'll shrivel if you keep on getting hit.

02:21So I think his family, I'm sure his family, Manta Teo is good friends with him.

02:26And he came out this morning and said he needs to retire.

02:29He was already told him to retire before, but he needs to just shut this down.

02:32It's getting dangerous now.

02:33People that understand concussions understand how dangerous this is.

02:36You can see the glossy eyes.

02:38He was convulsing and his arm went up.

02:43That Nowitzki guy, the former wrestler, Scott, he's a big concussion expert.

02:46He's all into this.

02:47He talked about his arm going up in a position that it did.

02:50Like he was out cold again, bro.

02:52There's only so many times you can do this to him before you're not, you're going to

02:55be talking slow man soon.

02:56You're going to be talking slow.

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