I have a reader of this blog -- probably about as close to me as any of the readers of the blog.
That reader not only gets sick of my overloading on football (having sworn off on football years ago, and I'm about to show you why...), but gets doubly sick of me talking about Q-Rating quarterbacks of the NFL as the centerpiece of the rigging because "It's All About The Quarterback".
Tonight, in vivid living color, you saw the ultimate cost of "It's All About The Quarterback".
There was no secret to me that Tua Tagovailoa was the rigging reason the Dolphins got to 3-0.
He almost died out there tonight.
Urinating Tree made a video, and FUCK YOU NFL for not letting me just embed this one.
It begins with last week's game, the original injury, and the fact that he was not well even in the rest of the game, after being whiplashed into the ground in the second quarter.
He supposedly not only passed protocols to return to the field that game, but to play again tonight.
He was not himself, and another whiplash hit in the second quarter probably had about the most frightening visual in the history of the televised National Football League.
His body, frozen on the ground, and look at his hands -- or, more correctly, his fingers. 53 second mark of the video.
Ten minutes on the ground, sent to a hospital. Non-zero chance it's Career Over, right there!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your league, writ large. And it's not going to change, even if someone dies out there. Especially if it's a name quarterback.
49 games and we've had two near-misses on the field this year already.
One of the commenters basically said that the Dolphins were in enough trouble already, and then this happens. That has been a messed-up organization since Incognito. Tua should walk away now & salvage his life.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just the Dolphins.
DeleteRemember what I said in THIS WEEK'S POLITICALS: The league was attaching it's early season, if for anyone, to Tua.
So why would it shock anyone that Tua himself, forget the Dolphins, would want to play if the NFL was all but dangling a possible mega-push at him, synergy for college football, etc. and so forth?
Yeah, slam the Dolphins all you want, I won't disagree. But this is on the NFL. And that's why I titled the post as I did. If this league did not, on an ABSOLUTE BASIS, rotate around Q-Rating Quarterbacks, less of a chance this happens.
And between this and the Buffalo incident -- that's two head-neck near-misses, and we've played just over three weeks this season!