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Tom Brady’s wife: He had a concussion last year, has had other concussions
Posted by Mike Florio on May 17, 2017, 10:03 AM EDT
Officially, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has never had a concussion. Unofficially, it appears that he has.
Brady’s wife, Gisele Bundchen, appeared on CBS This Morning and had this to say to Charlie Rose regarding whether she wants her husband to retire from football.
“I just have to say, as a wife, I’m a little bit — as you know, it’s not the most — let’s say [it’s] an aggressive sport. Football, like he had a concussion last year,” she said. “I mean, he has concussions, pretty much, I mean, we don’t talk about [it] but he does have concussions. I don’t think it’s a healthy thing for your body to go through like — you know, to that kind of aggression all the time. That cannot be healthy for you, right? I mean I plan on having him be healthy and do a lot of fun things when we’re like 100, I hope.
If he had a concussion last year, he apparently hid it from the teams and any/all doctors and/or athletic trainers responsible for spotting concussions and keeping concussed players out of action until they have recovered. While the knee-jerk reaction will be to claim that the Patriots lied on the injury report, the truth very well may be that the team didn’t know and the doctors didn’t know and the athletic trainers didn’t know — and that Brady successfully hid the symptoms to allow himself to continue to play.
The Patriots have not immediately responded to a request for comment. If they ever do comment, they’ll likely say they have no knowledge of any concussion that Brady ever suffered. The real question will be whether Brady has had concussions and what he has done to hide them, or whether his wife is simply misinformed or making bad assumptions.
Either way, the issue presents a complication for Brady that he’ll need to fully and completely address, sooner than later.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/05/17/tom-bradys-wife-he-had-a-concussion-last-year-has-had-other-concussions/Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.Comment
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I hope our Steelers give him two more concussions on the way out this season. hahaComment
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I suspect Belicheat knew about the concussion, and covered it up.
Maybe there's a memo or something ...Comment
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Check Tom's phone....2019 Mock
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One year later, Tom Brady’s 2016 concussion remarks take on new meaning
Posted by Mike Florio on May 17, 2017, 11:44 AM EDT
In May 2017, Tom Brady’s wife has made waves regarding her contention that the Patriots quarterback had a concussion last year and has had other concussions. The remarks put May 2016 comments from Brady himself into a new light.
While discussing the concussion issue with ABC News, Brady said that players who have suffered concussions need to be “treated the right way . . . [s]o that there are no long-term ramifications for it.” If Brady has indeed suffered concussion(s), it can fairly be assumed that he was treated the right way, so that there are no long-term ramifications.
So who treated him? If the Patriots did so secretly, the problem becomes something more than a garden-variety nose-thumbing of the injury reports, given the specific procedures and protocols that apply to concussions. If Brady obtained treatment on his own without telling the team, that opens an unprecedented can of worms.
It’s one thing for a player to pretend to not be concussed so that he can play and then quietly deal with the symptoms while they subside. It’s quite another for a player to bluff his way through a head injury and affirmatively seek treatment from someone other than the team.
For now, no one knows whether Brady actually suffered concussions, when they happened, whether the team knew or should have known, and whether Brady secretly secured treatment for the condition. But this would seem to be, at least on the surface, an issue far more substantive than a trumped-up claim of cheating arising from the question of whether Brady was involved in the manipulation of football air pressure aimed at allowing him to grip and throw the ball in circumvention of a rule the NFL had largely ignored.
If Brady has been suffering concussions, hiding them, and seeking out treatment without the knowledge or involvement of the team, this created a distinct competitive advantage for the Patriots. Put simply, it allowed him to be available to play when, based on rules far more meaningful than whether the air inside a football falls within an arbitrary range set decades ago by the manufacturer, other players aren’t available to play.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/05/17/one-year-later-tom-bradys-2016-concussion-remarks-take-on-new-meaning/Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.Comment
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Bellicheat and Brady breaking the rules again. What else is new.Comment
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