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Quote:If it's only mild, the player will not be put on IR and lose his job.

 

I'm obviously not talking about Shields.

Quote:I didn't know how bad a concussion was until I got one about a month ago from an accident.

 

No idea how people play football with a concussion, and to have one for several months, he's probably got some sort of further injury to his brain.

There are grades of concusions, they are not all equal. That being said, having had a pretty bad one in 2004 from playing football myself, my grades dropped about 15% across the board. I went from A's and A- to a below 3.0 student for about a year. And memory has never been as good as it was before. I won't let my kid play football cause of it (in the future hes a toddler now), but I need to deal with what I am going to tell him. I still like watching football, and am still a Jags fan, but I don't want my family playing it.

Quote:There are grades of concusions, they are not all equal. That being said, having had a pretty bad one in 2004 from playing football myself, my grades dropped about 15% across the board. I went from A's and A- to a below 3.0 student for about a year. And memory has never been as good as it was before. I won't let my kid play football cause of it (in the future hes a toddler now), but I need to deal with what I am going to tell him. I still like watching football, and am still a Jags fan, but I don't want my family playing it.

 

Don't worry about that unless he asks you to sign him up for football.

Quote:I don't think so, man. They're so cautious with concussions and the liability of having a player play with one is way too great. I don't think the tests are designed so that a player can "trick" them. But I'm also not a neurologist

 

If they've done a "baseline", it's pretty hard for a concussion to slip past those. You basically set a timeframe for how long it will take a person to answer a question that they can immediately answer under "normal" conditions. There's a tolerance of course, but it's pretty tough to slip through that test.

Quote:There are grades of concusions, they are not all equal. That being said, having had a pretty bad one in 2004 from playing football myself, my grades dropped about 15% across the board. I went from A's and A- to a below 3.0 student for about a year. And memory has never been as good as it was before. I won't let my kid play football cause of it (in the future hes a toddler now), but I need to deal with what I am going to tell him. I still like watching football, and am still a Jags fan, but I don't want my family playing it.

 

This is a challenge that I face quite a bit being a coach myself. Believe me, I understand your trepidation and concern over your children and I get why you may not want your child to play the sport. The one response that I have to your situation is that I bet almost 90%, if not more, of players throughout the country are taught the absolute wrong way to play the game. That isn't to say that proper coaching will eliminate concussions from occurring, but I do believe that it will bring the number down by a large margin.

 

Here's to hoping that Pete Carroll's "Hawk Tackling" initiative will take root at every level of football and players will learn to keep themselves safe as well as maintain the physicality in how they play the game.

Quote:If they've done a "baseline", it's pretty hard for a concussion to slip past those. You basically set a timeframe for how long it will take a person to answer a question that they can immediately answer under "normal" conditions. There's a tolerance of course, but it's pretty tough to slip through that test.

Ehh. I read an article a while back that claimed certain players in the past had bombed the baseline test so that they could pass if they were concussed. Not sure if that is still the case in today's NFL but it wouldn't surprise me.

Quote:He suffered a concussion week 1 and still hasn't fully recovered.



No.

 

 This reminds me of when Jahvid Best suffered a concussion in week 6 of the 2011 season.   Expectations were he would be cleared for the 2012 season.  That never happened and he never played in another NFL game.

Quote:Ehh. I read an article a while back that claimed certain players in the past had bombed the baseline test so that they could pass if they were concussed. Not sure if that is still the case in today's NFL but it wouldn't surprise me.

If "a while back" means before the NFL mandated a standard concussion protocol, forget all about it.