Damien Woody shaken by Tua Tagovailoa's 'scary' head injury | SC with SVP 

The Dolphins are legitimately risking this man’s career, health and life right now. The whole medical staff and NFL needs accountability and full review because that was noooo back injury 4 days ago… now this 🙏🏽 Tua

It's criminal that they allowed Tua to play last night after what happened to him against the Bills. Prayers for Tua and his family. I hope he's alright

Sent a chill down my Spine Seeing Tua's Fingers twisted up like that , Heartbreaking, Hoping and praying for a full Recovery,God Bless him.

The Dolphins organization needs to be held accountable for letting Tua play after suffering a concussion the prior week. This traumatic head injury will affect Tua playing career going forward. He will never be the same 😢

The absolute tragedy in all this is the fact that Tua will have to deal with the health side-effects of this for the rest of his life, while the rest of us simply move on to Week 5! ..Just horrible...

Damien is always solid and real with his perspective

As a bengals fan I felt horrible watching that tackle and the injury to tua I honestly love that guy he’s got so much potential prayers up for tua hopefully Miami will actually SIT THEIR FUTRE QB FOR HIS HEALTH AND SAFTEY HES YOUNG ENOUGH KEEP HIM SAFE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE!!!!! I don’t want this great player to be injury ridden

Fire the entire Dolphins training staff for letting Tua play after he got concussed last week, seeing that injury get worse there was just incredibly disturbing

It was definitely tough to see. Hopefully he’s going to make a full recovery and won’t have any kind of permanent damage

Man the dolphins got that wrong completely! We all seen fighters get knocked out and trying to get up afterwards and Tua looked like that wobbled! Man that’s sad I feel bad for tua such a good person and it hurt me seeing him like that 😢the teams medical staff should be fired and never allowed to practice anymore

When you break a leg, theres a timetable for that (barring freak instances like Alex Smith) Neurological damage doesnt have a timetable, and thats very scary to see. I hope Tua the PERSON is going to be okay

Prayers up to you Tua 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽, I get that you're a professional and you want to play but you have a life that is more important than a football game, this was handled wrong by the dolphins on a short week especially, in that bills game we all saw that tua was concussed but the dolphins got greedy there's no way he passed protocol. The medical staffs best interests is in the team not the players

I’ve hurt my back more times than I care to count. I’ve never had to shake my head or stagger afterwards from disorientation. Someone is lying in Miami.

The negligence shown from the Miami Dolphins & NFL in general regarding Tua is disappointing. Thoughts & prayers for him & any player facing possible head trauma.

It's unbelievable No way Tua should have been allowed to get back on the Football Field after a Head Injury like that no less than 2 to 3 weeks before he could return the NFL is partially responsible.

Scary stuff, prayers for Tua. Hope no one else gets hurt at all this season

Any blind man can see that Tua got slammed on the back of his head real hard when he hit the ground. That is a head injury to the brain and the way his finger's crippled up like that after the play was very scary to see and prayer goes out to Tua with a speedy recovery.🙏🙏🙏🙏

Prayers for Tua 🙏🙏🙏 and thank you Woody for speaking the truth

Dolphins staff BLEW IT letting him back on the field and now its too late. Praying for Tua to recover soon

I've seen comments where people are saying he had back injuries or no he had a concussion in that game against the Bills. He might have had both. And to turn around and play only 4 days later! Sometimes secondary symptoms are worse than the primary cause you initially don't feel it tell later after it has gotten worse. Now the young man is in a very serious condition with head, neck, and back issues. Prayers for you, Tua. Get well and take good care of yourself.

I was at the game, and the impact in real time is much greater than it looks like on on tv.

Praying for Tua man. He’s one of my favorite players and last night was extremely disturbing… praying for you boss

Today, this event changes both the NFL and Tua forever.

@ESPN Damien is a great football analyst I enjoy listening to him. Hope ESPN keeps giving him airtime.

Tua being okay through dumb luck is gross negligence by the Dolphins organization and complicit disregard by the NFL just 4 days after that "back and ankle" injury that for some reason had Tuaman stumbling with an obvious head injury He needs to genuinely mull over retirement bcus this organization and league doesn't give an f about his life

When his fingers curled up, I thought for a second that he was trying to take off his helmet. But when he stayed in that position, that’s when you just knew it was a bad situation.

I love football and played 4 years in high school. My 2 young boys will never play due to these risks, Never. My prayers are with Tua.

I was shook after seeing that man prayers to him and his Heath🙏

I think they knew there was a concussion problem last week and tried to call it off as a back injury to keep him in the game. He needs to sit down and take a break until he gets better. He is too young to be messing up his brain. As someone who used to have seizures I know how scary it can be. Hopefully he has a full recovery soon and its only a mild concussion.

The league had to address the two tackles that were clearly intended to knock Tua out of the games. No other explanation for pushing him down onto his back and head last week and this obscene unnecessary body slam onto his neck and head tonight. He was cleared last Sunday to return, he threw a 45-yard pass he could not have thrown that soon post concussion. But tonight’s was clearly intent to harm Tua. Should be fine and suspension. But all anyone is division is the Dolphins handling of last weeks injury.

Last weeks hit was 100x worse to the head then this weeks. He definitely had a concussion and got a 2nd one within 4 days, which explains the neurological damage (aka fingers).

Prayers for Tua 🙏🏻

There's already a lot of deliberate head to head hits that are just ignored this season. Teams actually congratulate and celebrate a player who intentionally targets another team's guy, like there's no such thing as sportsmanship between brothers who play the same game. If they were out for the game, shamed and criticized for it, the culture would change. The pressure to help the NFL conceal concussions has never diminished, and it allows them to blame their victims for their willingness to play hurt.

The problem is they need to protect more than the qb also! So many players will play through broken bones and ruptured spleens. We need to stop feeding them pain shots and actually let them heal. Stop making them play when there is backups. Every week a player is playing under a shot that numbs his pain so he can play.

I pray it's not career ending for Tua. 🙏

Prayers up man 🙏 🙏🙏🙏

The way that posturing in his hands was explained to me is your cerebral cortex shuts down for a moment and your brain stem takes over briefly. It’s really rare with head trauma and more associated with strokes. That’s severe. But, the hit wasn’t severe. What the implies is SIS, second impact syndrome. Again very severe. They have out his future health at risk as there is a high probability of long term symptoms.

To get up and shake your head and nearly fall back down and to say its just a back injury is insane…. 4 days later this man is seriously injured …for a game that could have been played by someone else … NFL treat them like lambs to the slaughter ….with all the drama the league has endured with former players killing and committing suicidal actions … they still let this man play ..life first and life last nothing can stand in between

Get well soon Tua! And sue everyone in the Dolphins organization for jeopardizing your career. Get em in the pockets!!

Didn’t know the last one was diagnosed as a back injury. I’m sure we’re not doctors here but I’m also certain we can all agree that first one was a concussion. Hope man’s doesn’t end up with cte and starts acting strange, like a whole personality shift. Tua could’ve ended up a vegetable. They’ll probably just fine someone.

This is why the CTE issue in the NFL and in Football at every other level is a series topic!

I really hope Tua's okay

That was scary to see. When I seen his fingers lock like that, you knew it was serious.

This situation is WAY bigger than just football since we're talking about Tua's health and future but man, there goes Dolphins playoff chances, what could have been a very entertaining team to watch this season

This isn't supposed to be happening like this years after such an effort was undertook to limit allowing players to continue playing after had injuries. The man had a confusion against Buffalo. He shook his HEAD to shake the cobwebs. The whole staff allowed this to happen. From coaches on down. All need to be punished, fired even. This isn't about football, it's about health. Shame on you Miami

The fact that they claimed it was a back injury is absurd. You don’t need to be a doctor to tell when someone is wobbled by a head injury. HE DIDNT EVEN GRAB HIS BACK ONCE.

This has to be the hardest I have ever seen a team fall, from playoff contender to we can't possible survive this not because of however long the lose Tua for but because it is such a huge black eye on Miami.

We love the game in great part because of the big hits, as a matter of fact the number one reason why football is a multibillion dollar industry and the most watched sport in the United States is because of the violent element in it. I for one am a huge football fan and have been since as far back as I have had the ability to reason but seeing Tua get injured the way he did i must admit was pretty disturbing, it gave me chills. The libertarian argument to the violent element within sports like football, boxing, mma, rugby etc is that human beings should be allowed to do whatever they want as long as they are not hurting others in the process unless those others are consenting adults. But if consenting adults want to participate in Gladiator games were they fight till death like in the days of Ancient Rome should they be allowed to do so? I personally would say “no” and I think most people would agree with me but when it comes to football or boxing which you can argue is a form of long term death those same people would tell you it’s okay. So I guess its a matter of degree. How much danger is too much danger? And who should decide how much danger is too much danger? Should it be the players, the coaches, the referees, the GMs, the fans, the owners, the politicians, the voters, the family members of the players ? Or a little bit of everyone? Well whatever the answer the truth of the matter is that this problem is not going anywhere. The only way you completely eradicate concussions and CTE from football is to completely prohibit any type of tackling and go with flag football or touch football or something along those lines and thats not going to happen, at least not in my lifetime. So we might as well get used to these type of injuries because the sad truth is that we’re going to be seeing them for the rest of our lives. GET WELL SOON TUA!

I can’t believe they let him play.

Prayers up to Tua 🐬🏈🐬🏈...coming from a Bolts Fan⚡️⚡️

He went into the fencing position, indicating a Brian stem injury. Very very scary he could never play again

4 days is not enough even if it was a back injury, that could make him more vulnerable to being injured again, head, neck and back.

Great news 🗞 That Tua will be discharged from the hospital and will travel back with the Team ! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

There was nothing vicious about that tackle. Tua being a talented but small guy with a history of injuries experienced a head and back injury last week is medically cleared to play this week. Who then experiences a neurological injury on routine tackle. Yep! The medical clearing of Tua to play has to be investigated.

That hit really shook me up

Lord have mercy I pray Tua gets his family support to get him to get healthy and healed cause his Coaches apparently don’t give a sht nor does the NFL as long as they can make ticket sales it’s awful

Hated to see that. We knew last week he wasn't OK but somehow emerged for the 2nd half, and now this... 2 concussions in 4 days. It's just not right. The Dolphins training staff need a look in the mirror.

if the NFL is such fraternity than why did at least not one teammate or coaching staff step up and say they believe he should not play. This goes for going back in the past Sunday and the Thursday game, not one person. If he was my friend I would've tried to convince him not to play

Tua's 2nd concussion in 2 wks. 2nd concussion vs Bengals was very scary.

Prayers for tua 😢

Seeing his fingers curl up like that is sick I don’t know how PR for the league even handles this.. it looked super bad people turning away people crying. For some reason it’s different than boxing it’s different than mma. I think the reason for that is football is targeted at kids. We’re not like Thailand where mma is everything.. seeing that slam seeing tua just totally lose control over his body man it just took alot out of folks all over. Prayers for Tua and his family his mom and dad were at that game. Can’t even imagine how they feel..

Last week looked crazy this one was even crazier he might have a deep rooted medical condition

The NFL needs to adopt what Rugby league and Rugby Union has the “HIA” (Head Injury Assessment). The Head Injury Assessment (HIA) protocol is a three-stage process introduced by teams to assist with the identification, diagnosis and management of head impact events with the potential for a concussion. This off- field screening tool includes a check of symptoms, memory assessment and balance evaluation. Only used in the professional game, the results of this off-field assessment are compared to a previously conducted 'baseline assessment', or to a normative result.

It wasnt a back injury it was a concussion you see his fingers omg so sad im praying for him

This is an isolated incident. Has nothing to do with the Bills injury. Look up Donald Parham & Tom Savage. Both are nfl players who hit the "back of the head" hard on the ground and their hands froze up like Tuas. Parham was carted off in a stretcher. These are back of the head injuries. And the reason why rabbit punches in boxing (punches to back of the head) are so dangerous & illegal. Perhaps nfl helmets need better cushioning or protection on the inside.

Sunday was not a back injury and we all knew that. He was clearly concussed Sunday against the bills. When guys shake their head like that it means they have some head trauma going on.. he shouldn’t have come back in that game or been cleared for TNF. This one was bad. The TNF injury wasn’t that violent but look what it did to him. He was compromised pregame and shouldn’t have played. Dolphins need investigated.

The Sunday game wasn’t “last week.” It happened THIS week.

I’ve been saying this for 15 years, and people think it’s the dumbest they’ve ever heard. But I promise you at some point in time QBs will wear flags like you wear in flag football. Sacks will be a thing of the past. QB’s will be untouchable and this incident right here put it one step closer.

I would honestly consider retirement after that

Tua's body, like the vast majority of us, is not equipped for the NFL. Two tightrope high ankle sprain surgeries, catastrophic near life threatening hip dislocation and surgery and this. He's injury prone not of his own fault and it's sad but a reality

It's also worth asking why this wasn't a penalty. If there was ever an example of "unnecessary roughness", this has to be it. I wouldn't be surprised to see a fine in that man's future.

Dammmmm Tua is Out for the season dammmmm the dolphins got to SHUTDOWN this mannnnn This was a scary injury I hope he gets well and prayers for the dude

Prayers for Tua

Well, his coach says" It's nothing more serious than a concussion." This guy gets it. 🤬🤬🤬 Tua in good hands with that guy.😡

That looks to definitely be neurological and maybe it even goes back beyond last week that looked similar to a seizure of a paraplegic

LOVE WOODY, a consummate HUMAN. Unlike the Dolphins and all these immoral men who put their EGO in front of this young man's LIFE ffs

First. Last week he got injured. Looked liked a concussion and come back in the game Then. He gets severely knocked out and gets released from hospital same day. He is Superman!!!

Seeing this sort of injury and his muscles and nerves totally shutting really worried me. His hands went through carpal tunnel syndrome. Thank goodness he’s in stable condition and being able to feel his extremities. A spinal injuries can cause serious nerve damage

Prayers to Tua

Lets not get things twisted. This is 100% on the independent neurologist. The player, head coach, team doctor, and everyone else has their lane, and this neurologist was brought in to be the authority on this matter. We need a name and answers.

My prayers go out to tua

TUA Isn’t the guy was never the guy very sad what happened wish him all the best to him and his family 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

The worst thing that has made the game the most dangerous was putting helmets on instead of the padded leather. Running back would not be lowering their head to bull rush, no facemasks to grab and twist, not diving defenders that use part of their head. Joe Pa of Penn State said it.. get rid of helmets to reduce head injuries. Rugby players actually have an above avg life span.

It was so scary that he flew back with the team. Must not of been too bad.

Sad prayers for Tua

He was knocked out like a boxer... He got his lights shut off and hopefully the neck or back injury is just soreness from hitting the ground as it did not look like the impact had a lot of angle.... It is very common when a boxer gets his lights knocked out that his arms react the same way tua's did.. they get very stiff.. I remember when it happened to Roy Jones Jr... I have seen it happen in the UFC also and its the same thing with arms and hands just freezing in that position until the brain turns itself back on which usually happens in less than a minute... The injury itself is usually isn't life threatening ( if you regain consiousness in less than a minute.. if longer then you need to get rushed and checked for brain bleed or aneurysm to a haematoma. ) or permenant but might make you more likely to get knocked out with even lighter hits and if you continue it will result in permenant brain damage...

They are not protecting this man from himself. You now should shut him down for the season. The brain doesn't heal that easily. Let him rest and keep doing tests until next year. I have a feeling his career is over. The next hit might be the last.

Hopefully they put Tua back for the next game.

The only thing that still sticks with me that Nick Saban said was tua holds on to the ball for too long because he wants to make a play every play. I really wish he would have thrown the ball away, live to see another play.

He has to be out for the rest of the season. His head needs time to recover fully

Couldn't keep him out for a week? 7 days? Smh. The Dolphins have a lot to answer for

Thorough investigation is needed. This Miami staff is really selfish for letting Tua playing.

It was clearly all precautionary. Anyone whos ever watched UFC could see he just got knocked out when he fell on his head. He will play again this season.