2024 NFL Season Thread

[TW]

Most these players don't care if by 60-65 they will be in a wheelchair drooling on themselves as long as they have set themselves and their family up for generations to come.

A lot of this is so true. Plus, we all feel that we're going to be the exception to the rule, and everything is going to be fine.

 

[rpiotr01]

A lot of this is so true. Plus, we all feel that we're going to be the exception to the rule, and everything is going to be fine.

I thought someone in the org or in his life or in the league would sit him down and tell him this, or just pull the plug. I get it's his decision and it's not that simple but sounds like there wasn't much of that other stuff at all. Little surprising.

 

[GBP4EVER]

I thought someone in the org or in his life or in the league would sit him down and tell him this, or just pull the plug. I get it's his decision and it's not that simple but sounds like there wasn't much of that other stuff at all. Little surprising.

Probably 40 years from now when he is dealing with brain issues he will be saying the league should have done something to help me/stop me from playing.

 

[realitybytes]

don't these multi-million dollar players have some kind of insurance to cover them if they have to leave the game due to injuries?

 

[GBP4EVER]

don't these multi-million dollar players have some kind of insurance to cover them if they have to leave the game due to injuries?

They do but likely have to be career ending to pay out. Last one I can remember was JerMichael Finley after he had his neck injury and had to retire. He had a $10 million tax free policy paid out to him.

 

[realitybytes]

They do but likely have to be career ending to pay out. Last one I can remember was JerMichael Finley after he had his neck injury and had to retire. He had a $10 million tax free policy paid out to him.

so hypothetically if tua gets a neurologist to say that he must retire or his brain will turn to mush, is that enough, i wonder, to collect?

 

[GBP4EVER]

so hypothetically if tua gets a neurologist to say that he must retire or his brain will turn to mush, is that enough, i wonder, to collect?

Yeah if he could get a doctor(s) who would say he could never play again he would collect the full injury guarantee's his contract pays out plus any policy if he bought one of those. Hear often college players buying them to protect them in case they get hurt badly and effects their draft status.

 

[Cheesedog]

so hypothetically if tua gets a neurologist to say that he must retire or his brain will turn to mush, is that enough, i wonder, to collect?

I believe so. He can’t collect if he walks away on his own. But if he is told to… plus his contract is injury guaranteed to like 167mill or something like that. So if he walks he loses that.

 

[TW]

Right now, it would be easy for Tua to find doctors who would say he has to leave the game, and it would be very difficult for anyone to countermand what they said, because the track record surrounding concussions is fairly conclusive. In fact, I believe there's a foundation loaded with supportive doctors who would make that diagnosis, based on his history.

The two biggest questions. Is it already too late? Would continuing to play be that much more of a risk? Secondly, when we're young, we all see what we're doing on that day as important. What comes down the road, years later, is something we honestly believe we can handle.

Every time this issue comes up, I think about Junior Seau, and what it did to his life.

 

[GBP4EVER]

Right now, it would be easy for Tua to find doctors who would say he has to leave the game, and it would be very difficult for anyone to countermand what they said, because the track record surrounding concussions is fairly conclusive. In fact, I believe there's a foundation loaded with supportive doctors who would make that diagnosis, based on his history.

The two biggest questions. Is it already too late? Would continuing to play be that much more of a risk? Secondly, when we're young, we all see what we're doing on that day as important. What comes down the road, years later, is something we honestly believe we can handle.

Every time this issue comes up, I think about Junior Seau, and what it did to his life.

Tua could find doctors to tell him not play but so could Miami saying he could. Would likely be forced into arb at that point.

But who among us after just signing a few months ago a deal worth over $200 million dollars would walk away? I think many of us would be like Tua and say no I am not giving that up. I am going to figure a way to come back and try to avoid getting more be it adjust my style of play or wear a guardian cap or do whatever but no way am I giving up that money.