Tua gets a concussion, odds of playing Seattle?

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He has 10 days to clear the protocol…but he’s also guaranteed 167m of a 222m contract. If they hold him out, it’ll be qb2 Skylar Thompson.Oh, and qb3 is Tim Boyle.

 
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From the Florio story

His new contract carries more than $167 million in injury guarantees. He’ll give up that money if he chooses to walk away. Nearly all of his $42 million signing bonus could also be forfeited, if he affirmatively decides to retire now.
 
No amount of ir is gonna change the cumulative effect of having four concussions, two with the fencing reflex indicating severity. The fifth one could be on an exponential scale. This isn’t like Alex Smith coming back from having his tendons and muscles exposed on espn. You cannot get back brain damage.

It would really suck if the Dolphins cleared Tua and forced him into a fifth concussion. At what point is it enough?
 
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I'm wondering what releasing him does? I sure don't want him dying or being totally messed
up because I allowed him to come back.
Perhaps I just sit him every game if I have to until there is a cap sweet spot, in this dumb and insane
contract that in a feel-good moment I had him sign..

I’d ir him for the year and work on a compromise for the remainder guaranteed. I mean, what alternative is there? He gets a fifth concussion?
 
If i'm the Dolphins i'm putting him back out there as soon as he's medically cleared to play. That's what he's being paid for. If he wants out of the contract and is prepared to give up the guarantees then fair enough. No way am I paying him to sit at home because he's scared he'll get hurt again.
 
If i'm the Dolphins i'm putting him back out there as soon as he's medically cleared to play. That's what he's being paid for. If he wants out of the contract and is prepared to give up the guarantees then fair enough. No way am I paying him to sit at home because he's scared he'll get hurt again.

If Tua is dead set on playing, it’s not the Dolphins’ job to refuse something that would be in the ownerships interest. If Tua had signaled he wanted time off or retirement, the team likely would have handled that by giving Tua a good percentage.

Following Tua, I feel it’s like the Junior Seau story. Guy seemed normal the whole time he was in football. Two years removed, he commits suicide.
 
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