Tua Tagovailoa's Concussion Debate and Refusal of Guardian Cap

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00:00Welcome back to a tongue of I love with a Miami Dolphins host the Arizona Cardinals laying for a

00:06Lot of conversation this week and we hit on it a little bit on our own on Thursday

00:11Not only around to a being back

00:14But now the Guardian cap as well, which is a really fascinating wrinkle to this whole thing here

00:20the two of stuff is

00:23I

00:24Don't like getting otter not like I did not think I know we hit this on on Thursday

00:30I did not think that Tua was now going to kind of become the

00:35Poster boy for we're not wearing the Guardian cap. I don't the whole thing is very weird to me now

00:40But why though like did you think he should be like it when like that double Mark Kelso helmet, but I'm not so I'm not

00:47I think it's really interesting that because every time to ends up with a concussion

00:53yes, it does seem to be on like a national TV primetime game, right and

00:57And

00:58Every time to ends up with a concussion, right?

01:0298% of people are like man. This is really sad. I hope the guy's okay, right?

01:06And because of that Donnie when she comes back people are like, man

01:10I hope he wears a Guardian cap like, you know

01:12That seems like that could help him and to a coming out and being like, yeah, I'm not doing it for personal reasons like

01:18What personal reasons I feel I'm buying back in on to it. I am still I

01:24Think it's been really interesting to see people be like, dude, why won't you protect yourself where you I think I mean

01:30It's got to be a little tongue-in-cheek. You're like not look ugly as

01:34Don't care about what I look like in my 40s. Let me rip it right now. This uniform looks clean

01:38I get that and there is something to be said about hey

01:40Look your career could end on one more concussion

01:43Why would you take all the precautions?

01:45But we don't know how many how much that Guardian cat is going to help at that point

01:47Yes, and gosh, this is like bizarre

01:49but is it gonna be a scenario where if to it takes another hit people gonna be like should have wore the Guardian cap like

01:55How is that what we're gonna get? I don't think it matters

01:58And by the way, like looking at the way he got hurt in this last time

02:00He did such a good job last year

02:01And what does he do?

02:02Runs for and puts his head down and try to drive through with the fender in the red zone here

02:07Which got a concussion right away, which was certainly devastating here, but also Kevin you gotta look at like the psychological impact of it

02:12He's lining up to play and he's just looking in the mirror. I got the Guardian cap on

02:16Oh, that's right, right as my head is a little bit scrambled. It's a reactionary sport too, right?

02:21So you don't want to think about the past you put it if he's gonna play it's full bore ahead in his mind

02:26He's the leader of that offense. He can't think about you know, second-guessing any type of hit or stepping up in the pocket

02:32He just has to react

02:33So maybe that's the the reason why he doesn't want to wear the cap

02:36And again, if he does in fact take another hit or sustain another injury down the road

02:43I don't think it'll be you know, oh, he didn't wear the cap. It'll be he came back

02:48That'll be the biggest thing is that he made the decision to play football again when he could have walked away and again

02:54We wish him the best. That's him and in his family's decision to make it and his solely but again

03:00He's out there with a 251 and a half number today. We'll see how we place

03:04I guess and I'm not gonna harp on this but like if I were to just clip what you just said

03:09You were like, oh, I guess they're doing like a vaccine thing or something

03:13Why is the Guardian cap like it's he and his family's decision whether he wears a Guardian cap or not

03:20Decision about about coming back and making that I understand. Yeah, that's what I was talking

03:26No, yeah, not not not for the guard now

03:28What happens it was the wife's like, you know, we're not guarding my husband out there Wow

03:32You look like I mean, I don't know, you know football players never want to show weakness

03:36I mean, they don't know it. Yeah. No, I

03:40Again, I'm not disagreeing with you, but also like brother

03:43It's not like 1980 like wake up and just throw the little cap on. I don't know. It just it's a bizarre thing

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