Miami Dolphins QB Tagovailoa in good spirits after concussion as NFL assessment underway

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Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is “in good spirits” Friday after receiving a concussion throughout Thursday night time’s recreation, head coach Mike McDaniel advised reporters.

The NFL and Dolphins are beneath scrutiny for the choice to permit Tagovailoa to play Thursday, after the quarterback was injured in a recreation simply final Sunday. McDaniel stated his focus proper now's on Tagovailoa’s well being, and that he's not eager about a timetable for his return to the sphere.

“(This) is any person I’ve grown very, very near,” McDaniel stated. “In terms of head accidents and concussions, with issues that extreme, the one factor I’m nervous about is the individual first.”

The NFL is reviewing the choice to clear Tagovailoa for play, and might be “talking with everybody concerned,” its chief medical physician advised Muricas News Friday.

“Any time we now have a scenario like this, we return to do an intensive assessment with every thing related to the scenario, and we return to have a look at the video and the medical studies,” Dr. Allan Sills advised Muricas News’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Friday.

“The NFL, the NFL Gamers Affiliation and the medical management goes to be talking with everybody concerned and which means the staff athletic coach, and the staff doctor, and the unbiased neuro professional, and the spotter within the sales space, and the neuro operator within the sales space, and the affected person themselves – and so all of that's beneath manner.”

Tagovailoa was sacked by Cincinnati Bengals defensive lineman Josh Tupou within the second quarter, and lay immobile on the sphere for a number of minutes. The whole Dolphins sidelines walked onto the sphere as he was positioned on a backboard and stretcher. Bengals followers in attendance at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati confirmed their respect as Tagovailoa was carted off the sphere.

Video confirmed Tagovailoa’s forearms had been flexed and his fingers contorted – an indication that Gupta, a neurosurgeon, stated is a “fencing response” and will be linked to a mind damage. Gupta requested Sills, additionally a neurosurgeon, how involved he was after seeing that video.

“Effectively, after all, I'm involved similar to you as a neurosurgeon, and anybody with a major damage and neurologic indicators like that,” Sills stated. “The quick concern is … ensuring that the second we do every thing that we are able to to supply essentially the most professional and well timed care … securing the airway, ensuring that there's not a backbone damage and so forth and so forth.

“I'm involved about that damage and the entire accidents.”

Sills famous that the NFL might be “reviewing rigorously the entire steps that led to the sequence of occasions that you just described.”

“We might be clear concerning the end result of that,” Sills stated.

McDaniel stated Tagovailoa had a MRI on Friday however solely as precaution after the CT scans and X-rays which had been taken after the quarterback was taken off the sphere on a stretcher. The outcomes of the MRI haven't been launched.

The Dolphins stated Tagovailoa was acutely aware after the damage and had motion in all his extremities. He was evaluated at a neighborhood hospital earlier than he was launched to journey again to Miami with the staff Thursday.

McDaniel, a first-year NFL coach, was requested if he would have dealt with Tagovailoa’s scenario in a different way after the quarterback received an obvious head and neck damage throughout Sunday’s recreation in opposition to the Buffalo Payments.

“He was evaluated (for a head damage) and cleared after a number of layers of medical professionals, who I don’t faux to be one,” the coach stated. “These folks, the gathering of them, cleared him of any head damage in any way. He had a again and ankle challenge.

“When it comes to deciding to not play a man on a Thursday night time recreation, I’m involved about his decrease again and ankle and placing him in hurt’s manner,” McDaniel added. “I've 100% conviction in our course of. … I wouldn’t have been in a position to reside with myself if I prematurely put somebody on the market and put them in hurt’s manner.”

Tagovailoa was joking round and glad to be on the airplane along with his teammates in the course of the journey house from Cincinnati after the loss, McDaniel stated.

He sat subsequent to his head coach and even began taking part in considered one of McDaniel’s favourite comedic motion pictures “MacGruber.”