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You're not stuck in your vehicle. Tonight, Thursday Night Football, the Cincinnati Bengals beat the Miami Dolphins 27 to 15. The Bengals improve their record to two and two. The Dolphins they fall to three and one to Otago Veloa. He falls big time he exits the game on a stretcher goes into an ambulance goes to a hospital ultimately is discharged along the way it was told to us that he suffered a neck and a head injury he was sacked in the second quarter he was basically ragdolled into the ground this is the same to Otago Veloa who was hit this past Sunday against the Buffalo Bills and he fell onto his back in his head bounced off of the ground and so two of these big hits kind of crazy he was evaluated on Sunday by the Dolphins doctors the independent doctors and it was reported that it was just a back injury not a head injury but a back injury he continues on to play even though he stumbled back into the huddle and so tonight just a bad situation to see a bad situation to watch because he appeared to have suffered another head injury I'm not a doctor not by any stretch of the imagination I don't think anybody listening to me right now unless you happen to be in Cincinnati unless you were one of the doctors who treated to Otago Veloa tonight we don't know exactly what happened we don't know the results or the prognosis we don't know any of that but I think we all know nobody's head is supposed to bounce off of the ground the floor the street the turf the grass the dome ain't supposed to hit nothing like that it's happened twice for two and so this game yeah good for the Bengals they went up to two their record is not one and three that was where they were on the path to and the Dolphins yes all things considered man have they been just like blazing through teams no no they haven't they were undefeated heading into tonight at 3 and 0 but we got some comebacks some you know near misses so they've been able to hang in there more importantly the big conversation has been around to a Tonga Valoa after Tua went out of the game Teddy Bridgewater he was able to to help them score a touchdown drive them down the field but in the second half of the game the Dolphins all they could muster was a field goal in the fourth quarter the Cincinnati Bengals they had a big interception by by Von Bell pretty much telling them to have a seat and then to close off the game the final score it was Joe Burrow he connected with Hayden Hurst for a touchdown making the score 27 to 15 listen to this final stamp on the game this is courtesy of the Bengals radio network third down and goal from the two they still have a sixth offensive lineman in Burrow wants to throw easy pass caught by Hurst easy touchdown nice and that should be coffin nails bam bam bam after the game head coach Zach Taylor knowing that these Bengals went to the Super Bowl last season knowing that they started this year 0 and 2 also understanding that they just improved their record to 2 and 2 he says hell no we didn't get discouraged listen we got a great team man I love this team I love everything about them they didn't hesitate for one second after those first two weeks when all the noise was getting loud about the expectations all that they didn't let that affect they didn't let that affect them for one second they just came out there and answered the bell and responded two consecutive weeks yeah now they're two and two they got a little bit of life we would have been in disaster city if the Bengals fell to one and three disaster city and so good for them we don't have to hear about how quickly they have fallen after making that surprise Super Bowl appearance but the hit the thing everybody's talking about tonight is two a tug of a lower going down in that second quarter this is what that hit sounded like at least this was the call for it from the Dolphins radio network mostly remains the running back play action to a roll to his left stops nobody's open job he's going to be sacked back in his own territory at the 47 yard line two is down he got body slammed he got thrown down and they're coming out right now Jimmy had time to get rid of it instead he gets thrown down hard and he's not getting up oh boy yeah he he didn't get up he was structured off of the field it looked like he lost control of his hands his his limbs their fingers hands arms momentarily they said he did have all the feeling in his arms and his legs and he's on the plane home which is is great news if you want to find this silver lining it's that two a tug of a lower was able to be discharged from the hospital and he's on his way just straight back to to Miami now we spoke to dr david chow right after the game he was the former head physician for the chargers and we talked to him obviously to uh apparently to what degree we don't know but he's been hurt twice in less than a week this past sunday tonight head back neck all connected doesn't matter dr david chow he talked about this the nfl the dolphins to uh everybody's gonna get yelled at about this situation he said look tua also cleared himself listen just everyone remember before you squirts the dolphins or the nfl tua is the one who also said it was my back now do the dolphins convince him to lie i doubt it right tua isn't filing a complaint it's the pa and it's the right and they should be able to do so and i'm not taking any sides on this i'm just saying let's let the process play out and hopefully it'll be okay the first step is he's flying home we can start seeing his symptoms if he doesn't have symptoms going forward it's not impossible for him to play but i guarantee you the nfl is going to take a lot of scrutiny at this because they don't want to reframe a ct and head injury scandal no they don't the nfl has already had to pay money out the ass in regards to settlements from former players claiming that the nfl didn't give a damn about them and just sent them out there knowing that they were they were doing just tremendous harm to their bodies we know this nfl don't want these problems the nfl players association has already said we're going to investigate to a getting back out into the game this past sunday and even coach mcdaniel for the dolphins earlier or after the game he said afterwards he said yeah man it was it was tough to coach this game after tua got injured take a listen i think a lot of people struggled i know me personally um that's you know if i didn't have a job to do for the organization and the rest of the players um and i didn't have that that uh um i don't know i don't know obligation in in my mind i yeah i would have tapped it i it's not something that is comfortable for anybody and um it was it it was not a situation that you want for any of your players or or your team in general it's some scary stuff um i'm just glad that that it worked out yeah the dolphins next game is october 9th it's not this sunday obviously the week after against the new york jets and we have no idea what's going to happen with tua i asked dr david chow i said well what are the next steps because are we going to see a game against the jets where i don't know carl lawson now knocks the living hell out of two i hope not these are the steps that dr chow outlined us here on cvs sports radio thankfully step one check no serious neck injury step two check discharge from the hospital flying home with the team step three is hopefully he clears very quickly from symptoms step four is that nothing long term and step five or six or seven is eventually getting back to playing if he chooses to and let's leave it up to the medical doctors to his own doctors i'm sure his agent and family will get involved yeah this is it's a conversation for everybody you know if you're an nfl player you have a limited window to go out there and make all of your money it's a it's a job if you're one hit you're done you're cooked career over you're trying to maximize your cash you're trying to get that money so doctors are there to supposedly look out for you they're getting paid by the team now they got independent doctors it's it's still a business the players they're just pieces they're interchangeable pieces that can be brought in replaced destroyed put on a conveyor belt sent out the pasture brought back in this they're commodities and they looked upon as such from the organizations and you heard from coach mcdaniel he's like listen i'm a human being it was tough tough to even go out there and continue to coach the game after tua got hurt and he was asked after the game you know what we saw what took place on sunday against the buffalo bills we saw what took place tonight mcdaniel's was pretty much that so mcdaniel he was just like listen man do you feel that you're any type of responsible do you feel that you put tua in the line of fire this is what he said absolutely not if if if i would have that would be irresponsible in the first place and i i shouldn't i shouldn't be in this position i don't think that his an injury from last week um uh made hit made him fall the same way this week you know um but yeah i i do not have any like absolutely zero patience for or will ever um put a put a player in a position to um for them to be in harm's way that is like not um what i'm about at all and no outcome of a game would ever influence me being irresponsible as the head coach of the football team you want to know something what he said is it's true and i agree with him this is just the culture of the nfl you know we joked about it last night with bill belicheck talking about mac jones and and his ankle it's like hey mac jones we heard he has a high ankle sprain hey bill does he have a high ankle sprain and bill belicheck took the approach of i don't know i ain't no doctor i'm not a doctor what do i know i'm not running around with degrees i'm not this ain't my mo is it right for coaches to take that approach i don't know but the fact is this is just the reality the coaches coach the players who are available it's similar hey don't ask don't tell hey can he play he could play fine okay fine how many snaps can he play do i need to change the game plan the coaches try to separate themselves from that element as much as they can as much of a jackass way that he said it yeah bill belicheck is not reading an mri he ain't coming out trying to be a doctor he's just trying to coach the dudes who are eligible and available to play is it right no it's not right but that's the way it is and if the nfl players association if they want to just investigate the process of which tuatanga veloa was allowed to play football or to continue playing football on sunday maybe they should look into that as well 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 cbs that's 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 c b s cody's calling from colorado you're on the jr sport reef show hey jr man uh usually work days uh i miss your show a lot at night last couple nights i've been able to listen a lot um i wanted to touch base with both tua and also you kind of touched on matt jones um to uh last week uh i listened a lot to jim rohm and the big head bets um you know there's not a lot of physicians that are gonna falsify him being okay to play you know he's gonna come on the field if they say he's okay to go on the field he's good with that being said and now forgive me i don't remember the name of the doctor um but he runs with with jim rohm and he was talking about how you know belicheck is a prime example of downplaying the injuries or or acting naive to the injuries um we all know that's not true i don't think that a physician said hey tula can play and he couldn't i think it's oddly coincidental though that two weeks in a row he's got head and back injuries um with that said and man i i love what you guys do every time i'm waiting on hold i always get a little distracted i'm always getting a little off off topic because i'm listening to what you guys are and uh what i want to say back but you guys you guys are always killing it uh long and short of it tula is i think he might actually be hurt um but what are they going to do next you know i appreciate you guys i appreciate you taking the call and uh have a good night thank you cody appreciate you for calling from colorado i don't think it's so much of doctors are standing around falsifying information i don't think anyone believes that but the fact is the doctors have the best interest and it depends on the doctor who do they have the best interest of the players of the organization are they hedging a little bit is this your physician because also let's be clear you know it's real easy to get sucked into this is football it's real easy to do that how many doctors how many general physicians will tell you that playing football is good for you who the hell is going to tell you that i don't think you'll find a doctor who will tell you that this is healthy not one i think we forget that because we're so sucked up into it the physicians in the nfl the doctors in the nfl are there just to see if you can play this is not for the betterment of your health this is not for your full protection because if it was the doctors would say stop playing this barbaric game go home that's not what's happening now is it oh it's just busted up uh you know we can cut it open in a few weeks but just go out there and play or hey let's just go ahead and give you this shot this pain there's a lot that takes place just in athletics so athletes can play so they can mask the pain this is a business everybody's trying to make money we had one of our callers wanted to reference kurt gibson and the power to go out there and play and i said man it's not even comparable with the nfl we got guys getting epidurals how about this this is a this is even worse of an example you know anthony risl of the new york yankees he's been dealing with back pain in a non-contact sport all year long this man got an epidural in his back to mask the pain and then was out subsequently because he was dizzy like let's let's be real if he's dealing with that anthony riso on the new york yankees run around the bases hit a home run stand at first base what the hell you think the defensive lineman's dealing with the offensive lineman the wide receiver the linebacker the guy butting heads i'm not a doctor i'm not claiming to be a doctor but this is something that we forget a lot yeah we know the nfl is violent but the degree of of of what and what just what the players go through to go play it's hellish and watching tour get his head dribbled on the floor like he's chris paul or lebron is not fun it's a reminder i'm not saying a doctor is dirty i'm not saying this is that but come on we know we've known for years the injury protocol this has nothing just to do with tour he's helping bring it to light unfortunately this is not something he asked for he's not a martyr here but we know the nfl can do better with his injuries but let's also be real it's counterproductive to the product eight five five two one two four cbs that's eight five five two one two four cbs a matter of fact you want to know how coaches feel about injuries this is what belicheck had to say if you forgot from last night this is what belicheck said about mac jones and his high ankle sprain day by day it's getting better see how it goes day by day does he have a high ankle sprain day by day what do i look like a doctor an orthopedic surgeon like i don't know talk to the medical experts we'll evaluate him i mean what difference does it make to me what do you think i'm going to read the mri that's not my job so if it's theirs and they talk to you about it right yeah it's day by day it's getting better day by day let's see see how it is tomorrow it's a lot better than it was yesterday you're listening to a new episode of the new episode of the new episode of the new episode you're listening to the jr sport brief on cbs sports radio You're listening to the JR Sport Brief on CBS Sports Radio. Wow, it's exciting talking to you, Mr. JR. You are clear, concise, accurate, and honest.

I love listening to you. Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. So, Sunday, Tua, his head hits the turf, he falls on his back, and they say it's just his back. Tonight, the same thing happens. He's stretchered off of the field. He doesn't stay in the game like he did on Sunday. And tonight, they officially say he suffers a concussion. Tua Tagovailoa is in concussion protocol. This time, he had to be stretchered off the field to a hospital. He's eventually discharged, and he's gonna be on a team plane back to Miami after the Dolphins lose the final score tonight. 27-15, the Bengals go up 2-2 in their season.

The Dolphins fall to 3-1. Chuck is calling from New Hampshire. New Hampshire, excuse me, you're on CBS Sports Radio. Hi, JR. First time, long time. Thank you, what's up, Chuck?

I'm just calling. I did three tours in Iraq, and the third time, I got hit by an IED. And I had an injury to my neck and my head. And I severed my brachial plexus, and my hands did the same thing that I saw Tua do today. And it was like two weeks I had to wait before I could control my hands altogether. And still, today, I can't do my left hand.

And now, that was in 2007. I'm 45 now, and I'm chewing pills. Every day, just the pain. Yeah, no, I'm sure.

First of all, thank you for your service. And we hear stories. Obviously, it's not the same as going to war. But we hear stories of NFL players who are constantly in pain. It's really no surprise that they need pills to move on. They need shots to move on. And we see them in these collisions every single Sunday.

Let me ask you, Chuck. Definitely do. Do you think Tua should have been out there today? Do you think he should have been allowed to continue on Sunday?

I mean, the doctors say yes, but for the most part, they're not necessarily gonna say, hey, man, have a seat and just stay home for two weeks. Yeah, he's a professional athlete, and that's how he makes a living. So it's just, I mean, if that's his decision, that's his decision. But I mean, I personally, as a young man, as he is, and being through what I've been through and what a lot of us have been through, I mean, you gotta think about your future too, your kids. And I think that's important. Yeah, well, thank you. Thank you, Chuck, for calling from New Hampshire.

Thank you one more time for your service. Yeah, it's about the money for everybody. It's about the money for the players. It's about the money for the owners. It's all about the money.

It's still a business out the gate. Sam is calling from New York. You're on the JR Sport Brief Show.

Okay, Sam is not there. Kyle is also calling from New York. You're on CBS Sports Radio. Hey, JR, thanks for taking my call. And I was listening to Chuck there, and I'm a veteran as well with deployments. And I can say that head injuries are no joke. I only had one while I was on deployment, and I'm still dealing with the effects years later. I deployed four years ago, and I'm still dealing with that kind of stuff.

And the main reason why I called, though, and I want to thank Chuck for his service, and I really appreciate all of that. In terms of sports, sort of a segue, maybe come to the leaf, but I think that the Shanahan system is not healthy for quarterbacks. I think that the offensive line is designed to be run-focused and not pass-protect focused. And I think that, I mean, we saw Trey Lance snap his ankle last week.

We got Tua Tonga-Viola going down hard this week. And when these types of coaches get a run-based or a run-capable quarterback, they tend to do reckless things, as far as I've seen. Well, I don't know if you feel the same, but- Well, I do want to thank you for bringing that up. I've never thought about it in that way, whether it's Kyle Shanahan or Mike McDaniel.

I've never looked at it in that prism. I look at it as all these guys are up to get their asses whooped. I don't care who it is. Let's think about every quarterback who has or is dealing with an injury, and pretty much at some point in time throughout the course of a season, it's going to be all of them.

And thank you, Kyle, for calling from New York. Last year, Lamar Jackson goes down to an ankle. A couple of years ago, I remember Patrick Mahomes, it was his knee. Like right now, Mac Jones dealing with a high ankle sprain that Bill Belichick doesn't want to admit is a high ankle sprain, or maybe it's not. And Tua and his back and his ankle, Jameis Winston, man, it was all fun and games. Hey, Jameis, what's up with your back? And he's just like, where's the pain?

And it's everywhere, and he wasn't joking. This man is playing with a broken bone. He's fractured vertebrae in his back.

Justin Herbert is running around with busted up ribs. It's not everybody playing in a Kyle Shanahan, Mike McDaniel system. You play in the NFL, you're going to get hurt.

That's just what it is. I mean, shoot, even the guys who catch the ball. You seen Torrey Holt's fingers? Michael Strahan playing at the line, you seen his hands? My main man, bad man, Ronnie Lott, have you looked at his hand?

He's missing part of a digit. This ain't easy. Watching some of these guys shuffle around in their 30s, their 40s, their 50s, let me tell you something. I'm sure the majority of our listeners haven't been to a radio row. Going to the Super Bowl radio row is like a big deal. Super Bowl radio row is like a massive convention. All of the radio stations are there, all of the athletes, all of the legends, and you sit in this gigantic ballroom and you look around and it's up there's Rob Gronkowski, and they go up there's Jerry Rice, and up there's this guy and that guy.

When some of the legends walk by, and I mean, I mean like legends, guys who are now in their 50s, still relatively young and then into their 60s, it becomes sad watching them try to move around. And some guys, it hits them even sooner than that. And it's not always the physical outward effects. It's the mental ones as well.

Those are the ones that we don't see. That's why seeing Tua bounce off of the turf, Tua watching his head bounce off of the ground the way we have this week, it's tough as hell. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here on CBS Sports Radio. I'm gonna get some more of your calls before I have to roll out.

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I've been listening to you maybe 10, 11 months and I always appreciate you being poignant, intelligent and exactly when you have to be. Call in now at 855-212-4CBS. It's the JR Sport Brief Show here with you on CBS Sports Radio. Yeah, get ready folks. If you thought about these conversations surrounding health in the NFL, if you thought it was just tonight, it's gonna be all day tomorrow as well. When we get to you tomorrow, of course, we're gonna dive deeper into the entire slate of NFL games this upcoming Sunday. Take a look at some college football on Saturday.

Got the first set of pre-season games in the NBA that are gonna take place. Not that we're gonna dive deep into that, but things are starting to get heavy here. Let's get to some of your calls before I have to roll out 855-212-4CBS. Rick is here from Toronto.

Thank you for taking my call again, JR. Oh God, I have so much to say. There's two things, it's like saying, Steve and Russ, you basically are making, you've got a good record now and you get back at Brian Flores from the past and you had two of us basically apologizing that now after when Brian Flores left, everything's great now and this happens. The players association has not done a good job. I'll tell you one thing, Demore Smith, he's the one who wanted to go from 16 games to 17 games.

This is another example of basically making the life of the player worse than ever. Now I don't trust the NFL. I wouldn't trust the NFL at all because you talk about doctors, you know, I got two doctors in mind, Ben Amabu and Joseph Maroon. They are two doctors who had a conversation about TTE, so I don't trust the doctors in the NFL.

Why should I trust the doctors, what? No, well, no, I was agreeing with you, Rick, that's it. Yeah, no, that's the whole problem. I don't trust Steve and Russ because he basically, he's not worried about that lawsuit. You know, it's one thing with Jon Grun's lawsuit, but Brian Flores' lawsuit was a class action lawsuit against the NFL. I think the NFL is trying to help Steve and Russ in this case and when this happened, they don't care about the player. They don't care about, what? We get that.

I'm not gonna disagree with you on that at all. Players are replaceable. They come, they go, they're here, they're gone, and the NFL goes on.

It's just how it is. James is calling from LA. You're on CBS Sports Radio. What's up, J.R.? How we doing, my man?

Very good. Yeah, prayers to that young man, Tua. You know, I hope everything's all right through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. I hope him and everybody else is going through something.

I can work it out, just give it to the Lord. Let go and let God, you know what I mean? I look back on Peyton Manning and the four next surgeries that he had, and I remember after the first two, when the Colts, I think the Colts let him go or they amicably agreed to just depart, and then he decided to come back to Denver. Everybody was thinking, one good pop and he's gonna be paralyzed for life. He's gonna be, you know, going down that road, but it was his decision to do it. It worked out for him. He managed to go to two more Super Bowls.

He got one more. But, you know, the risk, you know, for most of them, I don't think, it might not be worth the reward, man. It might not be worth going through that. Gronkowski decided to retire. I don't think he had any major problems, just aches and pains, but he said, you know, enough is enough. I'm done. And he's able to walk away and still have a clear head. So all you can do is pray for them, and it's their decision, you know.

You can't raise nobody grown, my mama used to say. And that's the true word, man. Yeah, no, it's factual. I mean, they love football. It's a give and a take. It's probably more of a give and a take in football than anything else, or any team sport. You have to think about sports in general, probably boxing, that you know going into this that you're gonna do yourself some damage that you can't reverse. Dave from Alabama, you're on CBS Sports Radio. Good evening, JR. How's it going, man?

Good, go ahead. Hey, when I seen what happened to two of that Sunday, that was about as wrong as two boys fighting in front of a church on a Sunday morning. He should have been taken out of the game immediately.

No iss, ands, and buts about it. And not only that, now he got hit by a truck Sunday, now he got hit by a locomotive named Bull the night. I mean, they turning this guy into a pretzel stick. I mean, they breaking every bone in this man's body. He should never have been played.

He should have been benched that Sunday, and he should have been out for at least two games to fully recover from that injury. And as far as Bill, yeah, and as far as I look at Bill's bill. Well, hold on. Well, before you say anything about Belichick, they say that their doctors cleared him and that it was his back, and all things considered, he looked fine tonight playing before he got hit again.

Man, but I'll tell you one thing. When I seen him, when I seen him, that man was about as wobbly as a wet noodle. Yes, what's your point quickly on Belichick, quickly? A narrow mind has no vision to expand. That's Belichick. He has a narrow mind and no room to expand because he's so delusional, narcissistic, and egotistic, he don't really see what's really in front of him. Quarterback this hurt, and he just wanna play it off. He's not- Well, I think he's not, I don't think he's trying to play it off.

I think he's playing the same role that he always has publicly, and that's the point I also made. The coaches will feign just ignorance just so they can do their job, which is to coach the players that are available. Does he know the status?

Yes, it's all a game. It's like, hey, do we wanna tip off the opponent? Do we wanna put this on the injury report? This is common, and it shouldn't be.

If you wanna talk about anything potentially changing, that's an additional element in and of itself. Go ahead, Mike, from Baltimore. Hey, J.R., I just wanna talk about two going down about the injury. How can these owners guarantee contracts for these players? And they're always one hit away from being done for a season or being done for their career? Well, there's only one player in the NFL who has a fully guaranteed contract. Every dollar and every cent, and that happens to be Deshaun Watson. You have to guarantee, well, the contracts are partially guaranteed, which is very different from other sports where the contracts are fully guaranteed. And so if you're gonna have a game, if you wanna have the players actually out there, I would tell you that the NFL probably has the weakest union, but that's one thing that they have been able to have is a partially guaranteed contract that you know you're risking your ass, your life, your wellbeing, that you're gonna get some type of money.

Ralph from Miami, quickly. Pretty quick, J.R., I wanna also bring, I understand everybody also bring everything to the NFLPA's attention, but my situation looking at the replay over the game, I feel like if the tackle was done differently, Tua would not be injured. I feel like nobody's actually seen, the tackle is the reason why he basically ended up in the stretcher because the second being hit in the head twice in a row, twice basically every week is gonna cause a situation like that. And the way he ended up being tackled, I feel like he could have basically did the tackle without having to just lift him up and throw him on the ground.

He could have done it. Well, tonight he wasn't so much, and thank you, Ralph, he wasn't so much lifted up and thrown onto the ground. Josh Tupou was already on the ground and was trying to drag him down.

Tua looked like he was planted. And then in the process of a 6'4, 6'3, 350 guy trying to slam you down, he flung him down. Boom.

That's it. It's like me sitting on the floor with a toddler and bringing him down. Down he goes. It's just brought him down hard, violently. I don't know how we could have changed anything there tonight.

Shep, I'm gonna let you get the last word, my man. It's just an unfortunate situation. I mean, a guy's having a career year. It's a rookie head coach. You know, you're coming off the disaster that is the Brian Flores situation. Didn't deserve to be fired in the first place. And a lot of people felt like McDaniel was in a rough spot.

He seems to be the guy for this team. And this is just a bad look for Tua in terms of how he was treated. It's a bad look on the Dolphins and it's an even worse look for the NFL.

And really there's no solution outside of the fact that we all understand the almighty dollar rules. The NFL's, you know, watch. That's it. You said it.

The last part. Everybody's gonna show up on Sunday. Somebody else will get hurt. There'll be another Tua next year. And the year after that, the year after that, and the money will continue to flow. NFL is moving towards 20 plus billion dollars per year. They can, pardon the pun, they can head off these injury concerns.

And as long as they can do that, as long as people show up to watch, they'll be cool. They can do better though. They can all do better.

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