00:00All right, so we haven't talked about the Dolphins in a while,
00:03especially the Dolphins quarterback, because they're not playing football.
00:05They're not playing football right now.
00:06But we have some thoughts here.
00:10This is from Galu Tungavailoa.
00:12I believe that's how you pronounce it.
00:14It's to his father.
00:15Was the fella G.A.L.U.
00:19Galu Galu Galu Tungavailoa.
00:22He he was on ESPN Halalulu.
00:25Yeah, and it sounds weird, right?
00:30Then they got out there.
00:32ESPN got sports talk out there, dude.
00:35No, I'm not questioning the way of the sports talk.
00:37What to say? ESPN, Honolulu.
00:40That's how they get you.
00:41Let me tell you, that's how they get players, right?
00:43They get somebody to put that ESPN flag. Oh, yeah.
00:46And then they say we're from ESPN.
00:48I pulled that move.
00:49But if you say you're just local, right, you get no love.
00:53If you say I'm ESPN, oh, that means I'm going to be on sports.
00:56Exactly. You're really not.
00:57But that's how they get you. I pulled that move.
01:00I can't say that I haven't put the little ESPN flag.
01:02Oh, yeah. Or even just an email requests, you know, like ESPN.
01:08Oh, OK, that sounds cool.
01:10Anyway, Mr. Tungavailoa,
01:14he said that he was talking to Tua about his year.
01:19And Vlad, give me the part where he says that Tua.
01:23He kind of doubled.
01:24I remember when Tua said, I'd die for this game.
01:27Yeah, he talked more about that, about how Tua said that,
01:30you know, I'll die on the field for this game.
01:32I think it's tough for any parent to kind of, you know, go to something like this.
01:37You know, but at the same time, the NFL was different.
01:40The way they do things, how they run things.
01:42It's a whole different beast.
01:44It's a whole different animal.
01:46But at the same time, you know, this is something that Tua is now married.
01:50He has his own family.
01:52And these are some of the tough decisions that he's going to have to deal
01:56with in life, you know, to decide whether the game is,
02:00you know, he's going to continue or the game is something that he loves.
02:05You know, and one of the things that I talked to him when he was going through
02:09his concussion was, hey, what do you think?
02:12And it's like that.
02:14I love this game and I'll die on the field for this game.
02:18So that answers everything for me.
02:20You know what I'm saying?
02:22But at the same time, as a father, you're like, man,
02:25you got to take care of your health.
02:26That's the most important thing.
02:28You have a family.
02:29I have two beautiful grandkids.
02:32So and that's something that, you know, I got to talk to him about
02:37up to the think about.
02:38All right.
02:39There's a little bit of a guy who tongue of my law on ESPN Honolulu there.
02:45That is that is one of the biting things that all this stuff,
02:48whenever he does play, though, is like.
02:51But he taught I know it's got to be frustrating for him to not be
02:55able to continue to play at certain points in the season,
02:58especially when there was that long break from the concussion,
03:00which really did look ugly against the Bills, but supposedly, I guess,
03:03wasn't as major as the other ones, Leroy.
03:06And he doesn't want to be the the face of concussions
03:09and the poser child for all the concussions and all this type of stuff.
03:12But man, it has got to be one of these things
03:15that has to be looming in the back of that fathers.
03:18And I'm sure parents had every single time he steps out there now
03:21because they've seen it happen to him multiple times.
03:23Yes. And no,
03:26I would say this.
03:28You understand the nature of the game, right?
03:35I would say it's one thing to say it.
03:42But the circumstances will now allow that to happen.
03:47So you're saying that.
03:50Giving the appearance that you're committed to this,
03:54but the injury aspect of it.
03:58It probably won't allow it to happen.
04:02You understand what I think, that's the reality of it.
04:04That's not we're not talking about long term,
04:07but we're just talking about when you say I would die for this.
04:14Right. It's more of a.
04:16Figure of speech, it's emphatic saying that.
04:18Right. Probably won't happen. Correct.
04:21So take it for what it is.
04:23But but but it's looked as scary with him on the field.
04:27That is. But that's here.
04:29More so than a lot of other people. Are we looking at that?
04:34Because of what everybody's telling us.
04:37Are we looking at here's why I.
04:43Here's how I've always felt the way I feel about it.
04:48When you have people outside of the medical profession
04:51or outside of football talking about injuries,
04:55you never get the reality of what's going on. OK.
04:59So you have doctors, you have these specialists or whatever.
05:05That are determining what's going on and what's the damage and how.
05:09And they have tests in place.
05:12It didn't help that the Dolphins put him on IR without.
05:18Going through that process, you could have waited a week.
05:22And so, oh, it's going to be four weeks.
05:24We'll put him on IR.
05:26In fact, if I was the NFL, I would allow you.
05:29To put somebody retroactive when it comes to concussions
05:33so that because it's so uncertain.
05:36Yeah. You give it a week before making that determination
05:41so you could go retroactive before.
05:44Right. Because it's an unknown.
05:46Well, this is the thing, though, like it is.
05:48You know, like odds are it's not going to be the last concussion of his career.
05:51Probably like. Yeah.
05:53And that's what I tried to tell you that it probably won't be as less.
05:56But let it have to be a month shut down every single time.
06:00No, but here's this. This is the problem.
06:04When this happened.
06:06We got into it because you said.
06:09They went with optics.
06:11I go with health.
06:14OK, the injury is the injury.
06:16Stop letting what people outside the medical profession think.
06:23Determine how you treat an injury,
06:26because this is the hot topic right now.
06:29But what about the guys that go out and hurt their hip?
06:33And take a shot in their hip, and then they can't walk
06:35when they're done with football. He has that, too, actually.
06:38What about the guys who we see lumbering around
06:42or can barely move because they got a shot in their back?
06:45Well, I think one of the things that's probably a benefit for Tua,
06:47but it's not great, I think, for the typical grind of football
06:51of coaches not caring is he does seem like he has a coach
06:53who genuinely cares about his health and that is overly cautious with it.
06:56Yes. But again, but being overly cautious.
07:01It doesn't do anything for an injury.
07:05Right. If you have a medical professional,
07:09if you go through the process and you're healthy, you should play.
07:13Stop making it about anything other than the injury.
07:19And that's what we did with Tua.
07:21Here's a little bit more of Guy Lutonga-Valoa on ESPN
07:24Halelulu and saying that this is ultimately Tua's choice.
07:27Has that been difficult for you?
07:29You know, you have been working with him and with both of your sons,
07:33really, in such close quarters and in such involved fashion.
07:37Is that difficult for you to separate that and allow him to make
07:42these kinds of of life impactful decisions?
07:47Oh, yeah, it is difficult.
07:49It's hard because you don't.
07:51You don't really.
07:54Have him like how you had it, you know,
07:58had it before, you know, like.
08:02Harry, you know, he has his wife and his family,
08:05and those decisions are based on both of them.
08:08And, you know, things that they got to look at.
08:11And, you know, his wife is such a beautiful lady that,
08:15you know, she's all about his health.
08:17She's all about life, you know, and she tells him, you know, I.
08:22I want to live long with you.
08:23You know what I'm saying?
08:24We got to make sure we do the right. But.
08:27You know, to grow up in a in a way that everything is just so competitive,
08:33he's he's just don't want to leave the game.
08:37The kid loves, you know.
08:40But I believe that the Lord has a plan for him.
08:42And, you know, wherever the Lord takes him, you know, it's.
08:46The decision that he's going to have to make with his family.
08:50There you go.
08:50Then who is father?
08:53I just I just I just think.
08:56I don't like when I use the Lord in this act.
08:58Yeah, very, very family.
09:00I just. I just think that.
09:06You deal with injuries accordingly,
09:10not how they look, not how the optics are, because here.
09:15I think the NFL and football teams get themselves in more trouble
09:19trying to do things that look right instead of things that are right.
09:23But he but is the genie out of the bottle with him already with that?
09:25Like it's it's one thing to do it with any other player in the league.
09:29But as much as he doesn't want to be the face of concussions, he is.
09:33And they do look bad.
09:35And the Dolphins have already reacted the way that they have.
09:39So like if it does happen again, is there any going back like to to
09:43especially with the same people running the organization?
09:46So that's the thing that's that's kind of they said that they set the tone.
09:51I don't I don't know, but that's why that's why.
09:55Look. In all these different
09:59scenarios in sports, we have protocols on how we do things.
10:04Right. Except this one.
10:07Right. Extra protocols.
10:09There's there's a protocol that you set as far as health,
10:12as far as testing, as far as everything.
10:15And when we were going through this, I said, hey, the process is the process.
10:20They don't need to put them on.
10:21I are like, let's let the process play itself out.
10:25But they jump the gun because of how it looks.
10:28Well, that's not the process either.
10:30Yeah, my my thinking is like next year, like
10:33grant to both had a really, really bad concussion this year.
10:35We had all really, really bad.
10:37We didn't finish the season.
10:39My guess, though, is if grant to both and I really hope this doesn't happen,
10:42but you just, you know, use the the the example for what it is.
10:47My guess is grant to both gets another concussion.
10:50No one's really talking about his career or what the long term
10:53ramifications are the next time that he's out there.
10:54If you even if he were to go out there the next week. Correct.
10:57Whereas to everything that happens, if he were to get another concussion,
10:59it's going to be, oh, my God, is it time to retire?
11:02Like the whole cycle is going to start again with the Miami Dolphins.
11:06And with that, but it's their own.
11:08I think it's their own doing because they have if they would have came out
11:12and said, this is what we're going to do, this is how we're going to handle it.
11:16We're going to do the medical professional thing.
11:18We're listen, we want to to be safe.
11:20We're going to stay out of it.
11:22Right.
11:22And let the medical professionals determine when is the best time to return.
11:27I lost it. I lost.
11:29I lost focus.
11:32The sizzle, I was not.
11:35I was just at Pet Supermarket.
11:37I marked three birds as safe from J-Fig.
11:41Point for Twitter.
11:45So, you know, some jackass from this show is going to be walking
11:49through Pet Supermarket and they're going to be a whole bunch of X's on cages.
11:54A whole bunch of X's on cages.
11:57We got it.
11:58We got a problem at Pet Supermarket.
12:01All these people are putting these X's on these bird cages.
12:06You guys are having a wonderful discussion.
12:09Wonderful conversation about two on the screen, two in his dad.
12:14And then out of nowhere, I look to the corner.
12:17Nobody has respect in the chat.
12:19The chat is a bucking bronco.
12:21They said, I lost it.
12:23The show is fluid, right?
12:26The show's fluid. It's fluid.
12:28They'll let you know when they want to move on to the next topic.
12:31Just look at the birds in the pet store.
12:32They're like, they look like they haven't been traumatized by it yet.
12:36Dude, I remember I had a story.
12:38You guys have Amazon parrot.
12:40I kind of like the little talking bird.
12:43But they're
12:46the problem is they're only receptive to one person.
12:49There's no way those birds are going to deal with Trey and Zeus.
12:52Sure they will. No, no.
12:54Do I? They're going to mess with them.
12:56Yeah. The birds will mess with the dog. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
12:59Like they're going to like start like barking.
13:01Yeah. You get like a funny, though.
13:03A great parrot will start barking.
13:05And then it'll be like faking a doorbell.
13:08They'll be. Oh, yeah.
13:11We had I had a when I was in Cleveland, I had a bird
13:14and the bird like cheeseburgers.
13:17Right. So you used to get them just a little cheeseburger from McDonald's
13:20or whatever. Excuse me.
13:21And he would eat the cheeseburger and drop a little bit on the ground.
13:25And the two dogs would run over to eat it.
13:27And he'd slide bite him on the ass and go.
13:33So I'll just I'll just sit on the couch.
13:36I'll sit on the couch for hours.
13:38Give a cheeseburger and watch the show.
13:41Two things. One, what was the bird's name?
13:44Pepper.
13:45You know, the bird pepper.
13:46No, but so here's the other thing.
13:49The bird can fly, right?
13:51But I had two sharpies who are fighting dog, Japanese fighting dogs.
13:56They're mean as hell.
13:58The bird would jump off the cage and walk on the floor and go.
14:05It'll happen.
14:06And the dogs would terrify.
14:08I'm just like, but wait a minute, it's fun.
14:10Don't birds just eat nuts like.
14:12No, why are you feeding a Big Mac?
14:14Yeah, I don't think that's I don't think I don't think you're supposed to do that.
14:16And then he's biting more ass like he's biting more meat.
14:20Guess what? Bird still alive.
14:23The parrots are resilient.
14:24They know they you know, if you buy the chatty patties, if you buy a parrot
14:29and the parrot doesn't outlive you, you get to bring it back, you get a new one.
14:33They live 100 years.
14:34Interesting.
14:35Wait a minute. A bird lives on.
14:37You're talking about some big time snitches.
14:39No, no, no, dude.
14:40If anybody can snitch, it's a parrot.
14:43Yeah. I put what do parrots eat?
14:47Ham cheeseburgers, not one of them.
14:48Meat not in the top 20.
14:50Yeah, I don't know why he's biting ass to 20.
14:52Hey, fruits, nuts, vegetables, broccoli, carrots, papaya burgers.
14:56Sorry. What made you think?
14:57Oh, let me go ahead.
14:58It's a bird. It's a parrot.
15:00Because you have to think somebody was eating something one time
15:04and he went down and took a bite.
15:05Well, he said, Polly, Polly wants a burger.
15:07No, it's a cholesterol parrot.
15:13H1 A1C pair.
15:15That bird needs a quick.
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